yòu

persuade

To use elegant  words  also provides the pronunciation

Components
讠 meaning component

  Meaning component

yán

  

speech

秀 sound,meaning component

  Sound Meaning component

xiù

  

elegant, excellent

Evolution

诱 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
诱 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
诱 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
诱 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

() 

yòu

persuade, entice, induce; guide; to entice; to tempt

Most common words with 诱
Freq.
Word
Meaning

诱惑

to entice

诱人

attractive

引诱

to seduce

诱导

to induce

诱饵

bait

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 19.1414% of movies

1600th most common character in movies

1707th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Traditional

Unicode

U+8BF1


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