愈

yù
adverb HSK 7-9 #9,034

Meanings

  1. 1 the more... (the more...); increasingly
  2. 2 to heal; to recover

Examples

HSK 1
Yǔ yù xià yù dà.
The rain is getting heavier and heavier.
HSK 4
Tā de bìng yùláiyù yánzhòng le.
His illness is getting more and more serious.
HSK 6
Shāngkǒu yǐjīng quányù le.
The wound has fully healed.

Tips

grammar
愈...愈... is the literary equivalent of 越...越... (the more X, the more Y). 愈 sounds more formal and written; 越 is the everyday spoken form.
memory
心 (heart radical) at the bottom + 俞 on top. When your heart heals (愈), things get increasingly better.

Components

radical
心 xīn
heart; mind
心 depicts the four chambers of a heart. As bottom radical it grounds 愈 in the inner-experience family. Healing happens in the heart-mind, and the comparative more-and-more is also tracked there as feelings shift in degree.
phonetic
俞 yú
to consent; surname; dugout boat
俞 supplies the sound (yú drifted to yù). The same phonetic appears in 偷 输 喻 渝. Originally depicted a hollowed dugout boat - a faint sense of passage from one state to another fits both the more-and-more and the recovery senses.

Stroke Order

愈 yù