yòu

help

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
亻 meaning component

  Meaning component

rén

  

person

is a component form of .

右 sound component

  Sound component

yòu

  

right

Evolution

佑 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

yòu

help, protect, bless; to assist; to protect

Most common words with 佑
Freq.
Word
Meaning

保佑

blessing

to assist

庇佑

to bless

詹天佑

Zhan Tianyou (1861-1919), Chinese railroad engineer

佑护

blessing

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[ɢ]ʷəʔ-s

hjuwH

yòu

assist


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 13.7434% of movies

1728th most common character in movies

2775th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

7

Unicode

U+4F51


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