Chinese Character Wiki
毓

yù

give birth to

Depicts a woman (每) giving birth to a baby with amniotic fluid (㐬). Original form of 育.

Components
每 iconic component

每  Iconic component

měi

  

every

Depicts a woman giving birth.

㐬 iconic component

㐬  Iconic component

liú

  

birth

Depicts an upside-down child (𠫓) being born with amniotic fluid (川) coming out.

Evolution

毓 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
毓 Bronze script Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)

Bronze script

Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)
毓 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
毓 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

毓  

yù

give birth to; bring up, educate; (archaic) to give birth to a child; to rear

Most common words with 毓
Freq.
Word
Meaning

毓

to rear

孙毓棠

Sun Yutang (1911-1985), historian and poet, studied in Tokyo, Oxford and Harvard

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*m-quk

yuwk

yù

to produce


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

2986th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

14

Unicode

U+6BD3

Shuowen

“育，養子使作善也。从，肉聲。《虞書》曰：‘教育子。’毓，育或从每。”


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