Memory phrase for the character: 俞

俞

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Meaning

to assent, approve, OK

Pronunciation

yú

Explanation

 Is understood as an arrowhead (sharp angled cover and variation from: front 前 (or arrow 箭), which gets into the body 月/肉 to cut 刂.

Mnemonic
 
When the arrowhead get into the body and cuts, I am assenting.

Radicals

俞 arrow headThis radical gets its meaning by the similarity to the character for arrow: 箭 (jiàn), which has a similar body under the bamboo 竹. Due to the pointed top this radical is understood as the arrow's head 人 that goes into the flesh 月/肉 and cuts刂.
coverOther covers are 冖 or




 Vocabulary

俞文豹 Yú Wén bào  Yu Wenbao (lived around 1240), prolific Song dynasty poet
俞天白 Yú Tiān bái  Yu Tianbai (1937-), novelist
俞天白 Yú Tiān bái  

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