芋

yù

Rank #4246

Definitions

yù taro; Colocasia antiquorum; Colocasia esculenta

Etymology

Phonosemantic compound. 艹 represents the meaning and 于 represents the sound.

Semantic: 艹 Phonetic: 于

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Bronze Late Warring States (~250 BC)

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Seal Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

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Seal Shuowen (~100 AD)

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Clerical Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

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Clerical Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

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Component: 于

Component: 艹

Components

于艹

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