Chinese Character 呦 Meanings and components.

Form

Meaning

呦 meaning[3] in English

Oh! (Exclamation Of Dismay Etc).

See 呦呦[You1 You1].

Main Components

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi[2] character can be seen as a composition of 2 main shapes where their meanings are mouth (口) , and young (幼)

Its radical[1] is: (kou3) which means: Mouth, Classifier For Things With Mouths (People, Domestic Animals, Cannons, Wells Etc), Classifier For Bites Or Mouthfuls, .kou3mouth

In cangjie it is written with RVIS

How to write 呦

To writeyou1Oh! (exclamation … you should write a combination of kou3mouth , you4young arranged in a shape:

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呦 Stroke Order

The order of the strokes to write 呦 should be followed in this specific way.

Components Tree

The composition tree, or the characters that form each component of , looks as follow:

Pinyin:you1 Shape:
Meaning[3]: Oh! (Exclamation Of Dismay Etc) . See 呦呦[You1 You1]

Pinyin:kou3
Meaning[3]: Mouth . Classifier For Things With Mouths (People, Domestic Animals, Cannons, Wells Etc) . Classifier For Bites Or Mouthfuls

Pinyin:you4 Shape:
Meaning[3]: Young

Pinyin:yao1
Meaning[3]: Surname Yao

Pinyin:li4
Meaning[3]: Surname Li

Notes

  • [1] A character's radical: section shǒuheader Radical

  • [2] Hanzi stands for: hànChinese Character

  • Wiktionary Page for 呦in English or Chinese