to pull up

Components
扌 meaning component

  Meaning component

shoushǒu

  

hand

hand

匽 sound component

  Sound component

yǎn

  

to hide

Evolution

揠 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
揠 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

to pull up, to eradicate; to eradicate; to pull up

Most common words with 揠
Freq.
Word
Meaning

to eradicate

揠苗助长

to spoil things through excessive enthusiasm (idiom)

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*ʔˤr[e]t

'eat

pull up


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

6779th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Unicode

U+63E0

Shuowen

“揠,拔也。从手,匽聲。”


This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Creative Commons License