Original meaning: travel
Depicts a child (子) holding a flag (㫃) in a group of people setting off on a journey. Based on the original meaning "travel", now written as 遊.
Components
Character Evolution
Component uses
Historical Pronunciations
| Middle Chinese | Old Chinese | Gloss | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Baxter-Sagart | yuw | [N.]ru | pendants of a banner |
說文解字
《說文》：“游，旌旗之流也。从，汓聲。，古文游。”
Sources
- Character origin
- 漢語多功能字庫
- Readings & variants
- Unicode
- Historical pronunciations
- Baxter-Sagart
- Historical images
- Academia Sinica
- Etymology
- Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)