于

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

Historical forms of the character 于
Shang	Western Zhou	Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Chu slip and silk script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts
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References: Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation), which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including: Shuowen Jiezi (small seal), Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions), Liushutong (Liushutong characters) and Yinxu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).

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.

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-wa-ŋ (“to go; to come”). Related to 往 (OC *ɢʷaŋ, “to go to, to, towards”). Merged with 於 (OC *qaː, *qa) by the classical times. It is now used as the simplified form in Mainland China.

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.

于

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

于

1. ^† Alternative form of 吁 (interjection).Only 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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