ōu

Europe

Original meaning: 

vomit

Simplified form of . Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound. Based on the original meaning "vomit". The current meaning is a phonetic loan.

Components
区 sound component

  Sound component

  

area

欠 meaning component

  Meaning component

qiàn

  

yawn, deficient

Evolution

欧 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
欧 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
欧 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
欧 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

() 

ōu

used in transliterating non-Chinese words such as Europe, ohm; surname; (used for transliteration); old variant of |[ōu]

() 

Europe; abbr. for 歐洲|欧洲[Oū​zhōu]; surname Ou

Most common words with 欧
Freq.
Word
Meaning

欧洲

Europe

to sing

欧元

euro (currency)

欧盟

EU

欧美

the West

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 18.1804% of movies

1146th most common character in movies

823rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

8

Traditional

Unicode

U+6B27


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