yōu

distant

Original meaning: 

warn

Depicts a hand holding a stick ready to beat someone. Based on the original meaning "warn". The current meaning is a phonetic loan.

Components
亻 iconic component

  Iconic component

rén

  

person

is a component form of .

◎ iconic component

  Iconic component

  

characterless component

Depicts a stick.

攵 iconic component

  Iconic component

  

tap

is a component form of . Depicts a hand holding a stick.

Evolution

攸 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
攸 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

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

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
攸 Clerical script Wu (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)

Clerical script

Wu (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)
攸 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

yōu

distant, far; adverbial prefix

Most common words with 攸
Freq.
Word
Meaning

distant, far

生死攸关

matter of life and death

攸县

You county in Zhuzhou 株洲, Hunan

性命攸关

vitally important

利害攸关

to be of vital interest

Component uses

Meaning component in 1 character (0 verified)

Sound component in 6 characters (3 verified)

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*liw

yuw

yōu

place where


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 1.5217% of movies

3187th most common character in movies

3416th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

7

Unicode

U+6538

Shuowen

“攸,行水也,从攴,从人,水省。,秦刻石繹山文攸字如此。”


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