yōu
distant
Original meaning:
to hit someone
Depicts a hand holding a stick (攵) beating up a person (亻). Based on the original meaning "to hit someone". The current meaning is a phonetic loan.
Components
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Wu (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 攸
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
distant, far | ||
matter of life and death | ||
You county in Zhuzhou 株洲, Hunan | ||
vitally important | ||
to be of vital interest |
Component uses
Meaning component in 1 character (0 verified)
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*liw | yuw | yōu | place where |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 1.5217% of movies
3187th most common character in movies
3416th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 7 |
Unicode | U+6538 |
Shuowen | “攸,行水也,从攴,从人,水省。,秦刻石繹山文攸字如此。” |
Sources
季旭昇《說文新證》p.242-243
許進雄《簡明中國文字學》p.341
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