禦
yù

drive

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original meaning

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Original meaning: ritual sacrifice to ward of calamities

Phonosemantic compound. 示 represents the meaning and 御 represents the sound.

Components

御
御 SoundMeaning component

Evolved from 𰆍 during the Western Zhou period.

示
示 Meaning component

This was added to 𰆍 later to reinforce the meaning.

Character Evolution

Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Early Western Zhou ~1000 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Late Western Zhou ~800 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Three Kingdoms (Wu) 222-280 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartngjoXm-qʰ(r)aʔ ward off, withstand; sacrifice

說文解字

《說文》：“禦，祀也。从示，御聲。”

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)