Sinograph Addenda · Signs

于at · yú · at, to, toward — the old preposition

at

Where it comes from

Three strokes whose origin is honestly disputed; the word is the annals’ and the Songs’ preposition — at, to, toward. The later classics prefer a fuller twin, but the old texts point with this one. Taught in the master’s-opening chapter.

How to remember it

A signpost of two bars and a hook: at. Where the old texts say where, this is the word.

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