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许

xǔ

allow

Simplified form of 許. Phonosemantic compound. 讠 represents the meaning and 午 represents the sound.

Components
讠 meaning component

讠  Meaning component

yán

  

speech

讠 is a component form of 言.

午 sound component

午  Sound component

wǔ

  

noon

Evolution

许 Bronze script Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)

Bronze script

Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
许 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
许 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
许 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

许 (許) 

xǔ

allow, permit; promise; betroth; to allow; to permit; to promise; to praise; somewhat; perhaps

许 (許) 

Xǔ

surname Xu

Most common words with 许
Freq.
Word
Meaning

也许

perhaps

许多

many

或许

perhaps

允许

to permit

许

to allow

Component uses

Sound component in 1 character (0 verified)

浒

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 95.7232% of movies

186th most common character in movies

263rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

6

Traditional

許

Unicode

U+8BB8


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