禹
Meanings
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- 1.Yu the Great (c. 21st century BC), mythical leader who tamed the floods
- 2.surname Yu
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Wiktionary
- 1.Yu the Great (the legendary king associated with a flood myth and the foundation of the Xia dynasty)
- 2.insect
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Etymology
The Shuowen interprets the character as pictographic (象形) of an animal. The bronze-script character clearly shows the 虫 component. ;insect ;Yu the Great :The earliest known reference to the legendary Yu in excavated texts is found in the 豳公盨 inscription from the mid-Western Zhou: : More information :In the 禹盤 (mid-Western Zhou), 禹 appears as the name of a contemporaneous individual: : :In the late Western Zhou, the well-known 禹鼎 inscription (King Yi period) records the deeds of a military official named 禹 who led an expedition against the Marquis of È (鄂侯馭方): : :The 叔向父禹簋 (King Li period) records an individual of the same lineage (also referencing the ancestor 幽大叔).
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