yōu

superior

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound. Simplified form of .

Components
亻 meaning component

  Meaning component

rén

  

person

is a component form of .

尤 sound component

  Sound component

yóu

  

especially

Evolution

优 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
优 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
优 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
优 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

() 

yōu

superior, excellent; actor; excellent; superior

Most common words with 优
Freq.
Word
Meaning

优秀

outstanding

优势

superiority

优雅

grace

excellent

优惠

privilege

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 36.7291% of movies

1042nd most common character in movies

774th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

6

Traditional

Unicode

U+4F18


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