yóu
adverb #7,669

Meanings

  1. 1 outstanding; remarkable
  2. 2 especially; particularly
  3. 3 fault; blame

Examples

HSK 3
Tā de chéngjì yóuwéi tūchū.
His results are particularly outstanding.
HSK 5
Zhè dào cài yóuqí hǎochī.
This dish is especially delicious.

Tips

usage
mostly appears in 尤其 (especially) and 尤为 (particularly). The surname is also common.

Components

radical
wāng
lame/bent legs (radical)
is the Kangxi radical for 'lame' and depicts a person with bent legs. In it forms the main body - three strokes - and indexes the character. Same radical heads a small family including , , .
ideograph
zhǔ
dot; marker stroke
is a dot stroke functioning as a marker - added to to differentiate this character. The dot doesn't carry independent meaning here; it's a positional indicator that turned the lame-person graph into the modern 'especially, particularly' word.

Stroke Order

yóu