yù
sell
Original meaning:
porridge
Depicts porridge being made from rice (米) cooking in a steamy cooking vessel (䰜). Based on the original meaning "porridge", now written as 粥. The current meaning is a phonetic loan.
Components
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Seal script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*m-quk | yuwk | yù | nourish |
*t-quk | tsyuwk | zhōu | rice gruel |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
5314th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 22 |
Unicode | U+9B3B |
Shuowen | “鬻,也。从,米聲。” |
Sources
李学勤《字源》p.215
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