于

于 U+4E8E, 于 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-4E8E ← 亍 [U+4E8D] CJK Unified Ideographs 亏 → [U+4E8F]

Stroke order

于 (Kangxi radical 7, 二+1, 3 strokes, cangjie input 一木 (MD), four-corner 1040₀, composition ⿱一𬺰 or ⿻二亅 or ⿻丁一)

• 㐵 吁 圩 汙 弙 扜 㚥 旴 杅 玗 䏏 盱 䄨 𤿍 衧 紆 虶 䍂 訏 趶 酑 釪 䩒 骬 㝼 迂 邘 㪀 宇 芋 竽 穻 㡰 㽳 䖉 盂 冔 䵹

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 86, character 6
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 252
• Dae Jaweon: page 177, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 4, character 5
• Unihan data for U+4E8E

Pictogram (象形) . Two possibilities for the object of representation are:

• An ancient wind instrument; early form of 竽 (OC *ɢʷa). This view is supported by mainstream palaeography.
• Exhaled air; early form of 吁 (OC *qʰʷa, *ɢʷas, “to sigh”). Shuowen considers it to be an ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 一 (“flat stream of air”) + 丂 (“to exhale”). Compare 乎, 兮, 号.

Unrelated to the bottom component of 得.

For pronunciation and definitions of 于 – see 於 (“Etymology 1”). (This character is the simplified and variant traditional form of 於).

Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China, Malaysia, and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.

simp. and trad.		于
alternative forms		亐 ancient 亏 ancient 𠂌／ancient 丂 *
* premodern lexicology definition

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-wa-ŋ (“to go; to come”). Related to 往 (OC *ɢʷaŋ, “to go to, to, towards”).

The preposition usages were replaced by 於 during the Han dynasty (Schuessler, 2007).

See entry 於 for the discussion of the developed homophony of 於 and 于.

于

1. (literary) to go to
2. (literary) at

   • 文王在上，於昭于天 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad.]
     文王在上，于昭于天 [Pre-Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11^th – 7^th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

     wénwáng zài shàng, yú zhāo yú tiān [Pinyin]

     (please add an English translation of this usage example)

3. (literary) A meaningless particle.

   鳳凰于飛／凤凰于飞 [Pre-Classical Chinese]  ―  fènghuáng yú fēi [Pinyin]  ―  (please add an English translation of this usage example)

   • 王于興師，修我戈矛 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad.]
     王于兴师，修我戈矛 [Pre-Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11^th – 7^th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

     wáng yú xīng shī, xiū wǒ gē máo [Pinyin]

     (please add an English translation of this usage example)

simp. and trad.		于
alternative forms		亐 ancient 亏 ancient

于

1. a surname

   于禁  ―  Yú Jìn  ―  Yu Jin (Chinese military general serving under the warlord Cao Cao in the late Eastern Han dynasty)

2. Used in several names and proper nouns.

   單于／单于  ―  chányú  ―  chief of the Xiongnu; a Chinese surname

   淳于  ―  Chúnyú  ―  a Chinese surname

The surname 于 is to be distinguished from another surname 於. The surname 於 is still 於 in simplified Chinese.

simp. and trad.		于
alternative forms		亐 ancient 亏 ancient

于

1. (literary) Alternative form of 迂 (yū, “large; vast; wide”)

simp. and trad.		于
alternative forms		亐 ancient 亏 ancient

于

1. (literary) Alternative form of 吁 (interjection) that is used in 于嗟 (xūjiē) and 于咨.

(Hyōgai kanji)

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• On (unclassified): う (u)、く (ku)
• Kun: ここに (kokoni, 于に)、ゆく (yuku, 于く)

于 (eum 우 (u))

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于: Hán Nôm readings: vu, vo, vò

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