Meaning & readings
swing, shake, sway, rock, tremble, vibrate
On’yomi ヨウ
Kun’yomi ゆ.れる、ゆ.る、ゆ.らぐ、ゆ.るぐ、ゆ.する、ゆ.さぶる、ゆ.すぶる、うご.く
Origin
This character combines a hand component on the left, which indicates physical action, with a sound hint on the right that suggests the pronunciation "yō". The hand element shows that the character refers to something done by hand or body movement. Together, these parts create a character meaning to shake or sway—the kind of back-and-forth motion you make with your hand or body. The sound component helps speakers recognize the Chinese-derived pronunciation without adding extra meaning to the character.
Components
- 扌
- 䍃
A sound hint component points at the character’s pronunciation, not its meaning — don’t read a meaning into it.
Common words
Reference
- Strokes
- 12
- Kangxi radical
- 64
- Formation type
- Phono-semantic (meaning + sound hint)
- Grade
- Jōyō (secondary school)
- Frequency rank
- #1079 (newspapers)
- Former JLPT
- level 1
- Unicode
- U+063FA