Chinese Character Wiki

雩

yú

offer sacrifice for rain

To sacrifice 亏 for rain 雨; 雨 also provides the pronunciation

Components
雨 sound,meaning component

雨  Sound Meaning component

yǔ, yù

  

rain

亏 meaning component

亏  Meaning component

kuī

  

deficit, lose

Evolution

雩 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
雩 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
雩 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

雩  

yú

offer sacrifice for rain; summer sacrifice for rain

Component uses

Sound component in 1 character (0 verified)

樗

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[ɢ]ʷ(r)a

hju

yú

sacrifice for rain


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

6612th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Unicode

U+96E9

Shuowen

“雩，夏祭樂于赤帝以祈甘雨也。从雨，于（亏）聲。，或从羽。雩，羽舞也。”


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