verb

Meanings

  1. 1 to call out; to appeal; to entreat (variant of 籲 / 吁)

Examples

Gǔ jí zhōng, yù zì yòng zuò hūyù, kěnqiè qǐngqiú zhī yì.
In ancient classical texts, 龥 was used in the sense of calling out or earnestly appealing.

Tips

register
is essentially obsolete — an archaic variant of (traditional) / (simplified, in the 'appeal' sense), meaning 'to call out, to appeal earnestly'. The modern equivalent is the common compound 呼吁 'to appeal, call upon (the public)' — used routinely in news writing about petitions and public causes. itself appears only in classical citation, paleographic dictionaries, and the rare specialist Chinese-character lookup.

Components

ideograph
to call out; to appeal (archaic)
Indexed under Kangxi #214 (a multi-piped bamboo flute) — the smallest of all Kangxi radicals, with only under it. The right side here is a heavily contracted form of supplying the sound (yuè → yù, regular shift); the left is (head, the bodily seat of voice) contributing the 'calling out' meaning. The character is essentially obsolete in modern Chinese, replaced by in the compound 呼吁.

Filed under radical (yuè, #214) by convention. is not a separate component in , so no strokes are highlighted.

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