Chinese Character Wiki

牖

yǒu

window

Components
片 unknown component

片  Unknown component

piàn, piān

  

slice

户 meaning component

户  Meaning component

hù

  

door

door

甫 unknown component

甫  Unknown component

fǔ

  

begin

Evolution

牖 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

牖  

yǒu

window; lead enlightenment; to enlighten; lattice window

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[l]uʔ

yuwX

yǒu

window


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

5368th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

15

Unicode

U+7256

Shuowen

“牖，穿壁以木為交窻也。从片、戶、甫。譚長以為‘甫’上‘日’也，非‘戶’也，牖所以見日。”


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