yōu

the bleating of the deer

Components
口 meaning component

  Meaning component

kǒu

  

mouth

mouth

幼 sound component

  Sound component

yòu

  

young, infant

Evolution

呦 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
呦 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
呦 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

yōu

the bleating of the deer; Oh! (exclamation of dismay etc); see 呦呦[yōu​yōu]

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 4.1326% of movies

2451st most common character in movies

5390th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

8

Unicode

U+5466

Shuowen

“呦,鹿鳴聲也。从口,幼聲。,呦或从欠。”


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