Chinese Character Wiki
域

yù

district

Phonosemantic compound. 土 represents the meaning and 或 represents the sound.

Components
土 meaning component

土  Meaning component

tǔ

  

earth

或 sound component

或  Sound component

huò

  

or

Evolution

域 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

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

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

域  

yù

district, region, boundary; land; field; region; area; domain (taxonomy)

Most common words with 域
Freq.
Word
Meaning

区域

area

领域

domain

域

field

地域

area

海域

sea area

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[ɢ]ʷrək

hwik

yù

territory


Statistics

HSK level 5

Appears in 18.7250% of movies

1499th most common character in movies

847th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Unicode

U+57DF

Shuowen

“或，邦也。从囗，从戈以守一。一，地也。域，或又从土。”


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