IDENTITY
游yóuto swim; to travel
HSK 2Top 550
CORE MEANING
to swim; to travel
- Part of speech
- verb
- Register
- neutral
Senses
- 1.to swimHSK2
- 2.to travelHSK3
FORM & BREAKDOWN
- Radical
- 氵water radical (shuǐ)
- strokes
- 12
- Structure
- left-right compound
- IDS sequence
- ⿰氵斿
- water
- gives the sound yóu (historical)
USAGE
Common words
游泳yóuyǒngto swim
旅游lǚyóuto travel
游戏yóuxìgame
Graded examples
夏天我们去游泳。Xiàtiān wǒmen qù yóuyǒng.HSK2
We go swimming in summer.
RELATIONS
Lookalike — don’t mix up
POEM LINES WITH THIS CHARACTER
LEARNING
Memory aid
Moving in water (氵) like a streamer (斿) — swimming, roaming.
- HSK version
- 3.0
- Frequency rank
- #550
- Memory aid
- memory-aid
TRUST & SOURCES
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- AI-assisted editorial review
- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-15
Sources
- CC-CEDICT 2026-01-01
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