(yóu) - to swim, to travel, to wander in Mandarin
yóuTraditional: 游
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Translation
to swim, to travel, to wander
Word origin
A phono-semantic character: the water radical 氵 gives the meaning, fitting both swimming and drifting along, while 斿 (yóu) supplies the sound.
- Origin
- phono-semantic
- Root
- 氵 (water radical) + 斿 (yóu, phonetic)
Stroke order
游
Examples
。
Children love playing games.
。
He goes swimming every day.
河。
The children are swimming in the river.
。
The fish swims freely in the water.
游 (yóu) covers swimming, travelling and wandering; it forms 游戏 (yóuxì), game, and 游泳 (yóuyǒng), to swim.
Appears in 2 words
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 游.
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