犹
as if; (just) like; just as; still; yet
7 strokes
Dict coverage rank #1,631 U+72B9
How 犹 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
犭 (semantic, “dog”) + 尤 (phonetic, yóu)
How to remember it
just like · Heisig RSH #1590
pack of wild dogs + Frankenpooch
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 尤
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 尤 (yóu) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 尤 sound component | yóu | especially, particularly |
| 优 | yōu | superior; elegant |
| 忧 | yōu | sad, grieving; melancholy, grief |
| 扰 | rǎo | to poke, to disturb, to annoy, to agitate |
| 疣 | yóu | wart, tumor, papule, goiter |
| 鱿 | yóu | cuttlefish |
Words containing 犹
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 犹太复国主义者 | Yóu tài fù guó zhǔ yì zhě | a Zionist |
| 犹太复国主义 | Yóu tài fù guó zhǔ yì | Zionism |
| 反犹太主义 | fǎn Yóu tài zhǔ yì | antisemitism |
| 上犹县 | Shàng yóu Xiàn | Shangyou, a county in Ganzhou City 贛州市|赣州市[Gan4 zhou1 Shi4], Jiangxi |
| 犹地亚 | Yóu dì yà | Judea |
| 排犹主义 | pái yóu zhǔ yì | antisemitism |
| 犹大书 | Yóu dà shū | Epistle of St Jude (in New Testament) |
| 犹达斯 | Yóu dá sī | Judas (name) |
| 言犹在耳 | yán yóu zài ěr | words still ringing in one's ears (idiom) |
| 犹太人 | Yóu tài rén | Jew |
| 犹太会堂 | Yóu tài huì táng | synagogue |
| 过犹不及 | guò yóu bù jí | too far is as bad as not enough (idiom, from the Analects) |
| 犹太教堂 | Yóu tài jiào táng | synagogue |
| 犹太教 | Yóu tài jiào | Judaism |
| 犹太法典 | Yóu tài fǎ diǎn | the Talmud |
| 意犹未尽 | yì yóu wèi jìn | to wish to continue sth; to have not fully expressed oneself |
| 犹大 | Yóu dà | Judas; Judah (son of Jacob) |
| 犹子 | yóu zǐ | (old) brother's son or daughter; nephew |
| 犹自 | yóu zì | (literary) still; yet |
| 上犹 | Shàng yóu | see 上猶縣|上犹县[Shang4 you2 Xian4] |