Chinese Character Wiki

愈

yù

more and more

Phonosemantic compound. 心 represents the meaning and 俞 represents the sound. Simplified form of 癒.

Components
心 meaning component

心  Meaning component

xīn

  

heart

俞 sound component

俞  Sound component

yú, shù

  

surname

Evolution

愈 Bronze script Early Spring and Autumn (~700 BC)

Bronze script

Early Spring and Autumn (~700 BC)
愈 Seal script Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal script

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
愈 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
愈 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
愈 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

愈  

yù

more and more, even more; the more...(the more...); to recover; to heal; better

愈 (癒) 

yù

variant of 愈[yù]

Most common words with 愈
Freq.
Word
Meaning

治愈

to cure

愈

to heal

痊愈

to recover completely (from illness or injury)

愈合

to heal

愈来愈

more and more

Component uses

Meaning component in 1 character (0 verified)

癒

Sound component in 1 character (0 verified)

癒

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*loʔ

yuX

yù

increase


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 11.4048% of movies

1862nd most common character in movies

1301st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Unicode

U+6108


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