■ radical

yù

to produce

How it’s built

Phonosemantic compound. 子 represents the meaning and ⺼ represents the sound. The 子 (child) component is upside-down.

子

meaning

son; child

⺼

sound

meat; flesh — ⺼ is a component form of 肉. The pronunciation of 育 was similar to ⺼ in old Chinese, but they no longer sound similar in modern Mandarin due to historical phonetic changes.

Appears in

Characters that use 育 as a component, most common first.

唷yōfinal particle

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