together with

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
舁 sound,meaning component

  Sound Meaning component

  

to lift

Depicts four hands working together.

牙 sound component

  Sound component

  

tooth

Evolution

與 Bronze script Mid Spring and Autumn (~600 BC)

Bronze script

Mid Spring and Autumn (~600 BC)
與 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

() 

and; with; to; for; give, grant; to give; together with

() 

variant of |[yú]

() 

to take part in

Most common words with 與
Freq.
Word
Meaning

and

参与

to participate (in sth)

与众不同

to stand out from the masses (idiom)

与此同时

at the same time

与否

whether or not (at the end of a phrase)

Component uses

Sound component in 4 characters (1 verified)

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*m-q(r)aʔ

yoX

give; for; and

*ɢ(r)aʔ-s

yoH

participate in


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 76.8701% of movies

407th most common character in movies

108th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Simplified

Unicode

U+8207

Shuowen

“與,黨與也。从舁,从与。,古文與。”


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