Chinese Character Wiki
攸

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
亻 iconic component

亻  Iconic component

rén

  

person

亻 is a component form of 人.

◎ iconic component

◎  Iconic component

  

characterless component

Possibly depicts drops of blood.

攵 iconic component

攵  Iconic component

pū

  

tap

攵 is a component form of 攴. Depicts a hand holding a stick.

Evolution

攸 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
攸 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
攸 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
攸 Clerical script Wu (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)

Clerical script

Wu (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)
攸 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

攸  

yōu

distant, far; adverbial prefix

Most common words with 攸
Freq.
Word
Meaning

攸

distant, far

生死攸关

matter of life and death

攸县

You county in Zhuzhou 株洲, Hunan

性命攸关

vitally important

利害攸关

to be of vital interest

Component uses

Meaning component in 1 character (0 verified)

筱

Sound component in 6 characters (3 verified)

條 修 脩 悠 倏 莜

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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