elm tree

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
木 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

tree

俞 sound component

  Sound component

shù

  

surname

Evolution

榆 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

elm tree; elm

Most common words with 榆
Freq.
Word
Meaning

榆树

Yushu county level city in Changchun 長春|长春, Jilin

elm

榆林

Yulin prefecture level city in Shaanxi

榆林市

Yulin prefecture level city in Shaanxi

榆次

Yuci district of Jinzhong city 晉中市|晋中市[Jìn​zhōng​shì], Shanxi

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*lo

yu

elm


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3272nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Unicode

U+6986

Shuowen

“榆,白枌。从木,俞聲。”


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