于

See also 扵, 於, and 干

Translingual

Stroke order

Etymology

Ideogram (指事) – a tool of some sort. Character used as a grammatical particle.

Han character

于 (radical 7 二+1, 3 strokes, cangjie input 一木 (MD), four-corner 1040₀)

1. in, on, at
2. go to
3. surname

Derived characters

• 宇 芋 紆

References

• KangXi: page 86, character 6
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 252
• Dae Jaweon: page 177, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 4, character 5
• Unihan data for U+4E8E

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Cantonese

Hanzi

于 (Yale yu1)

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Japanese

Kanji

于

Readings

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

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Korean

Hanja

于 (hangeul 우, revised u, McCune-Reischauer u)

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Mandarin

Preposition

于 (simplified, Pinyin yú (yu2), traditional 於)

1. in

   生于1980年

   be born in 1980

Related terms

• 在
• 给
• 对
• 从

Derived terms

• 于今
• 于是