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虞

yú

concerned about

Phonosemantic compound. 虍 represents the meaning and 吳 represents the sound.

Components
虍 meaning component

虍  Meaning component

hū

  

tiger

虍 is a component form of 虎.

吳 sound component

吳  Sound component

wú

  

one of warring states

Evolution

虞 Bronze script Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Bronze script

Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
虞 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

虞  

yú

concerned about, anxious, worried; to expect; to anticipate; to worry; to cheat

虞  

Yú

surname Yu

Most common words with 虞
Freq.
Word
Meaning

虞

to expect

尔虞我诈

each tries to outwit the other

上虞

Shangyu county level city in Shaoxing 紹興|绍兴[Shào​xīng], Zhejiang

上虞市

Shangyu county level city in Shaoxing 紹興|绍兴[Shào​xīng], Zhejiang

不虞

unexpected

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[ŋ]ʷ(r)a

ngju

yú

foresee

*[ŋ]ʷ(r)a

ngju

yú

gamester; forester


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

2936th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Unicode

U+865E

Shuowen

“虞，騶虞也。白虎黑文，尾長於身。仁獸，食自死之肉。从虍，吳聲。《詩》曰：‘于嗟乎騶虞’。”


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