Chinese Character Wiki

誘

yòu

persuade

To use elegant 秀 words 言; 秀 also provides the pronunciation

Components
言 meaning component

言  Meaning component

yán

  

speech

秀 sound,meaning component

秀  Sound Meaning component

xiù

  

elegant, excellent

Evolution

誘 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
誘 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

诱 (誘) 

yòu

persuade, entice, induce; guide; to entice; to tempt

Most common words with 誘
Freq.
Word
Meaning

诱惑

to entice

诱人

attractive

引诱

to seduce

诱导

to induce

诱饵

bait

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*luʔ

yuwX

yòu

lead; influence


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 19.1414% of movies

1600th most common character in movies

1707th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

14

Simplified

诱

Unicode

U+8A98

Shuowen

“，相訹呼也。从厶，从羑。誘，或从言、秀。或如此。羑，古文。”


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