Chinese surname · rank 187
喻
喻 is read as yù.
yù
Simplified and traditional 喻
metaphor, analogy; example; like
Earth
Time: Spring and Autumn Zheng lineage tradition; Han-period written-form split; Spring and Autumn tradition, 770-476 BCE
Place: Zheng-state and Luoyang/Henan tradition layers, with later development in Sichuan and the southeast noted by surname sources
Origin note
is best presented as a multi-layer Yu surname rather than as the ordinary verb meaning 'to explain'. The main source-backed line starts with the Ji-surname ruling house of Zheng: Zheng prince Yumi is said to have founded a lineage, and by the Han period related written forms such as and were separated out. Other surname accounts also preserve a -to- change and a Chu-linked layer, so the page treats , , , and as related in parts of the tradition without saying every lineage is identical.
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