允

yǔn
#1,441 most
frequent character
just, fair, to permit, to allow

Character breakdown

Source: Make Me a Hanzi.

允 pairs 厶 yǐ, here a variant of 以, as the sound part with 儿 person as a picture part. It first meant 'sincere and honest'. From there it grew to 'fair, just' and 'to permit, allow'.

Drawn as: person

允 as a component in other characters

sound3 characters
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