又 - Dong Chinese dictionary

yòu

(hand), again

Original meaning:

hand

Pictograph of a hand. The character is based on the original meaning "hand". The current meaning "again" is a phonetic loan.

Evolution

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)

Bronze script

Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Regular script

Modern

Definitions

又

yòu

and, also, again, in addition; (once) again; also; both... and...; and yet; (used for emphasis) anyway

Most common words with 又

Freq.	Word	Meaning
	又	also
	欲言又止	to want to say sth but then hesitate
	赔了夫人又折兵	having given away a bride, to lose one's army on top of it (idiom)
	玄之又玄	mystery within a mystery
	又及	P.S.

Component uses

Meaning component in 12 characters (4 verified)

隻度变丈劝叙竖寝寢矍㕡叒

Sound component in 5 characters (3 verified)

有友右驭馭

Iconic component in 56 characters (56 verified)

有为為爲事沒没及系反受取争爭支史盡双雙友叚皮亂右妻曼灰奴叔兼袁祭隶叉秉尹聿亟叟爰攵殳攴釆夬肀臤蒦𣦼隓𤔔𠬝𠬜𠬪𠬶𰀡

Simplified component in 16 characters (16 verified)

对变难权观仅欢汉圣戏轰叹鸡凤聂𠬤

Unknown component in 9 characters (0 verified)

邓艰贤浸肾氢唚锓韰

Deleted component in 1 character (1 verified)

启

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese	Middle Chinese	Pinyin	Gloss
*[ɢ]ʷəʔ-s	hjuwH	yòu	also, in addition

Statistics

HSK level 2

Appears in 96.1237% of movies

229th most common character in movies

126th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes	2
Unicode	U+53C8
Shuowen	“又，手也，象形。三指者，手之列多略不過三也。”

Sources

MTSU Chinese text computing

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