to tease, to mock, to jeer

, forming a fixed literary expression.
Together with 

, it forms one of the common terms for ridicule in East Asian languages.

Related characters:


to ridicule, mock, sneer at

smile, laugh

A phono-semantic compound consisting of:


hand

 (hand) — semantic component, indicates an action or gesture;
兪 — phonetic component, supplying the sound (유 / yú).
Originally, it likely conveyed gestural mockery or teasing action.

In Korean, 揄 appears almost exclusively in 揶揄.

야유 (揶揄) — jeering; mockery

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Words

Vocabulary

to push away, to expel, to arrange in order, to line up, to reject

to dig, to excavate, to hollow out

to hang, to suspend, to attach

to gather, to pick, to pluck

to search, to look for, to probe, to explore

to connect, to join, to come into contact, to receive, to engage

to push, to infer, to postpone

to place, to set, to put down

to mock, to ridicule, to tease

to draw, to depict, to sketch

to lift, to raise, to carry in the hand, to bring up

to raise, to lift up, to scatter, to soar, to praise

to change, exchange, substitute, replace

to grasp, to hold firmly, to seize

to lift high, to raise, to post, to expose

to wave, to wield, to scatter, to command, to direct

to help, to assist, to aid

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Chinese character

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揄

Etymology

Usage in Korean

Additional notes

Words that derived from 揄

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