抒
shū HSK7

express

Phonosemantic compound. 予 represents the meaning and 扌 represents the sound.

Components

予
予 Meaning component
yǔ give
扌
扌 Sound component
shou, shǒu hand

扌 is a component form of 手.

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartzyoXCə-laʔremove (v.)
Zhengzhangljaʔ
hlja
ɦljaʔ

說文解字

挹也。从手予聲。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-SagartZhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)