Character: 猶
Modern (Beijing) reading: yóu
Preclassic Old Chinese: lu
Classic Old Chinese: lu
Western Han Chinese: lǝw
Eastern Han Chinese: źǝw
Early Postclassic Chinese: źiw
Middle Postclassic Chinese: jiw
Late Postclassic Chinese: jiw
Middle Chinese: jǝw
English meaning : be like, equal
Comments: Also used for *lu 'plan' (also written as 猷), which may be the same word ('planning' as 'levelling, equalling'?), and adverbially as 'still, yet' (also probably the same word < *'likewise'). In Shi 196 Schüssler takes 猶 as a loan for 由 (*Łu) which is rather unlikely. The original usage of the graph must have been for a homonymous *lu 'a k. of monkey', but this is attested only since Han.
Radical: 0
Four-angle index: 0
Karlgren code: 1096 r-s
Shijing occurrences: 21.2_, 58.3
