yú
cart
A cart 車 carried on one's shoulder 舁
Evolution
Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Late Warring States (~250 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 輿
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
public opinion | ||
carriage | ||
media | ||
public sentiment | ||
geomancy |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*m-q(r)a | yo | yú | vehicle, carriage; carry on shoulders |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
2341st most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 17 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+8F3F |
Shuowen | “輿，車輿也。从車，舁聲。” |
Sources
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