yǔn

allow, permit

Phonosemantic compound. represents the sound and represents the meaning.

Components
㠯 sound component

  Sound component

  

by means of

人 meaning component

  Meaning component

rén

  

person

Evolution

允 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
允 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
允 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
允 Clerical script Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)

Clerical script

Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)
允 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

yǔn

to grant, to allow, to consent; just; fair; to permit; to allow

Most common words with 允
Freq.
Word
Meaning

允许

to permit

just

公允

fair

允诺

to promise

应允

to consent

Component uses

Sound component in 4 characters (1 verified)

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[l]u[r]ʔ

ywinX

yǔn

truly


Statistics

HSK level 6

Appears in 29.6652% of movies

1280th most common character in movies

1443rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

4

Unicode

U+5141

Shuowen

“允,信也。从儿,聲。”


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