yú
pleasant
Phonosemantic compound. 忄 represents the meaning and 俞 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution
Bronze script
Early Spring and Autumn (~700 BC)
Seal script
Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*lo | yu | yú | enjoy |
Statistics
HSK level 6
Appears in 28.6721% of movies
1332nd most common character in movies
1982nd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 12 |
Unicode | U+6109 |
Shuowen | “愉，薄也。从心，俞聲。《論語》曰：‘私覿愉愉如也。’” |
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