Chinese Character Wiki

豫

yù

relaxed

Phonosemantic compound. 象 represents the meaning and 予 represents the sound.

Components
象 meaning component

象  Meaning component

xiàng

  

elephant

予 sound component

予  Sound component

yǔ, yú

  

give

Evolution

豫 Bronze script Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)

Bronze script

Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)
豫 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
豫 Clerical script Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)

Clerical script

Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)
豫 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

豫  

yù

relaxed, comfortable, at ease; happy; carefree; at one's ease; variant of 預|预[yù]; old variant of 與|与[yù]

豫  

Yù

abbr. for Henan province 河南 in central China

Most common words with 豫
Freq.
Word
Meaning

犹豫

to hesitate

毫不犹豫

without the slightest hesitation

犹豫不决

hesitancy

豫

happy

豫剧

Henan opera

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*laʔ-s

yoH

yù

go on tour

*laʔ-s

yoH

yù

go on inspection tour


Statistics

HSK level 5

Appears in 8.3934% of movies

2225th most common character in movies

1956th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

15

Unicode

U+8C6B

Shuowen

“豫，象之大者。賈侍中說：‘不害於物。’从象，予聲。，古文。”


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