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游

yóu

to swim

Phonosemantic compound. 氵 represents the meaning and 斿 represents the sound.

Components
氵 meaning component

氵  Meaning component

shui, shuǐ

  

water

氵 is a component form of 水.

斿 sound component

斿  Sound component

yóu

  

to move freely

Evolution

游 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
游 Bronze script Early Spring and Autumn (~700 BC)

Bronze script

Early Spring and Autumn (~700 BC)
游 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
游 Clerical script Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)

Clerical script

Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)
游 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

游  

yóu

to swim; float, drift; wander, roam; variant of 遊|游[yóu]

游  

Yóu

surname You

游 (遊) 

yóu

to walk; to tour; to roam; to travel

Most common words with 游
Freq.
Word
Meaning

游戏

game

旅游

trip

游

to walk

游泳

swimming

游客

traveler

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[N-]ru

yuw

yóu

float, swim

*[N-]ru

yuw

yóu

float, swim


Statistics

HSK level 3

Appears in 62.0535% of movies

536th most common character in movies

695th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Unicode

U+6E38

Shuowen

“游，旌旗之流也。从，汓聲。，古文游。”


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