呦 Definitions — Dong Chinese Dictionary

yōu

the bleating of the deer

呦 yōu

bleat noun: describes the calling sound of a deer, typically used in the reduplicative 呦呦 yōuyōu; 鹿群在林间发出呦呦的叫声。

lùqún zài lín jiān fāchū yōu yōu de jiàoshēng.

A herd of deer is calling in the woods.

oh interjection: exclamation expressing surprise, dismay, or realization; 呦，你怎么才来呀？

yōu, nǐ zěnme cái lái ya?

Oh, why are you so late?

Frequency

Character

Written text: 5,390th most common 0.651 per million
Movie subtitles: 2,450th most common 9.24 per million appears in 4% of films

Word

Movie subtitles: 12.9 per million appears in 4% of films
Written text: 20.4 per million

Details

Strokes: 8
Unicode: U+5466

Sources

Definitions: CC-CEDICT
Frequency data: MTSU Chinese text computing SUBTLEX-CH BCC Corpus (BLCU)