禺 (ǒu): old variant of 偶 — mate; pair;…

Meanings

1 old variant of 偶 — mate; pair; even number (archaic)

Characters

禺

ǒu

old variant of 偶 — mate; pair; even number (archaic)

Examples

汉代文献中禺字有时通偶字。

Hàndài wénxiàn zhōng ǒu zì yǒushí tōng ǒu zì.

In Han texts 禺 is sometimes interchangeable with 偶 in the sense of 'pair'.

Tips

register

Archaic — definitions follow classical attestation only. In any modern context use 偶; the 禺 ǒu reading is encountered only when reading Han-Tang-era texts and the old etymological dictionaries.

Components

pictograph

禺 ǒu

long-tailed monkey

Pictograph. The oracle-bone shape drew a monkey from above: head (甶-like top), body, and a long curling tail trailing down to the right. Indexed under Kangxi #114 禸 (the trailing-foot radical that captures the curled tail). Modern shape no longer transparently shows the monkey.

Filed under radical 禸 (róu, #114) by convention. 禸 is not a separate component in 禺, so no strokes are highlighted.