yù
residence
Phonosemantic compound. 宀 represents the meaning and 禺 represents the sound. Simplified form of 庽.
Evolution
Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 寓
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
apartment building | ||
moral (of a story) | ||
to reside | ||
dwelling | ||
fable |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*ŋ(r)o-s | ngjuH | yù | lodge (v.) |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 21.9125% of movies
1286th most common character in movies
2199th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 12 |
Unicode | U+5BD3 |
Shuowen | “寓，寄也。从宀，禺聲。庽，寓或从广。” |
Sources
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