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郁

yù

surname Yu

Phonosemantic compound. 阝 represents the meaning and 有 represents the sound. Simplified form of 鬱.

Components
阝 meaning component

阝  Meaning component

fù

  

hill, place

阝 is a component form of 阜.

有 sound component

有  Sound component

yǒu

  

have

Evolution

郁 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
郁 Seal script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Seal script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
郁 Seal script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Seal script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

郁  

Yù

surname Yu

郁  

yù

elegant

郁 (鬱) 

yù

luxuriant; dense, thick; moody; dense (growth); melancholy

郁 (欝) 

yù

variant of 鬱|郁[yù]

郁 (鬰) 

yù

old variant of 鬱|郁[yù]

Most common words with 郁
Freq.
Word
Meaning

郁闷

gloomy

抑郁

depressed

忧郁

sullen

抑郁症

clinical depression

浓郁

rich

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*qʷək

'juwk

yù

stately, elegant


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 13.2949% of movies

1809th most common character in movies

1915th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

8

Traditional

鬱

Unicode

U+90C1

Shuowen

“郁，右扶風郁夷也。从邑，有聲。”


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