yòu
weasel
Phonosemantic compound. 鼠 represents the meaning and 由 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernStatistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 0.9130% of movies
3350th most common character in movies
5410th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 18 |
Unicode | U+9F2C |
Shuowen | “鼬，如鼠，赤黃而大，食鼠者。从鼠，由聲。” |
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