Chinese Character Wiki
尤

yóu

especially

Original meaning: 

wart

Pictograph of a hand with a wart on it. The original meaning "wart" is now written as 疣. The original meaning later expanded to "strange, bizarre" and "outstanding, special".

Evolution

尤 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
尤 Bronze script Spring and Autumn (771-476 BC)

Bronze script

Spring and Autumn (771-476 BC)
尤 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
尤 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

尤  

yóu

especially, particularly; outstanding; particularly, especially; a fault; to express discontentment against

尤  

Yóu

surname You

Most common words with 尤
Freq.
Word
Meaning

尤其

especially

尤其是

especially

尤

outstanding

尤为

especially

尤物

rarity

Component uses

Sound component in 7 characters (4 verified)

就 优 忧 疣 犹 魷 鱿

Iconic component in 1 character (1 verified)

疣

Simplified component in 1 character (1 verified)

扰

Unknown component in 2 characters (0 verified)

稽 嵇

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[ɢ]ʷə

hjuw

yóu

fault; even more


Statistics

HSK level 5

Appears in 22.3771% of movies

1324th most common character in movies

1099th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

4

Unicode

U+5C24

Shuowen

“尤，異也。从乙，又聲。”


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