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yǔyú HSK6

give

approved by Peter Olson · Sep 3, 2021, 04:08 PM · Reviewed by Peter Olson on Sep 3, 2021, 04:08 PM

verify

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Embellishment of the phonetically similar character 呂.

Components

呂 Sound component

Change in sound

予 and 呂 don't sound similar in modern Mandarin due to historical phonetic changes. They were more similar in older Chinese.

Change in form

Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 呂 than it was in ancient scripts.

Regular Modern

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	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	yo	laʔ	I, we
	yoX	laʔ	give; together with

《說文》：“予，推予也。象相予之形。”