Kanji Detail for 繇 - "flourish, corvee, song, from, path"

繇

Non-Jōyō Kanji

Meaning
繇 means "flourish, corvee, song, from, path."
1. Flourish - For plants to grow thickly.
2. Corvee - Compulsory labor; forced labor.
3. Song - A ballad; a folk song.
4. From - By means of; because of.
5. Path - A road.
6. Omen - A pattern revealed by divination.
Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:

KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

reason; cause

Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

reason, cause

CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

folk-song; forced labor

Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

cause, means, reason

XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

Flourishing. Anciently also interchangeable with the characters 徭役 (corvée labor) and 歌謠 (songs). | Same as 由. (Book of Changes) "What it proceeds from comes gradually." | The divination text of a hexagram or omen.
Onyomi

chuu

ju(じゅ)

yoh(よう)

yu(ゆ)

yuu
Kunyomi

shitaga.u(したがう)
Strokes

17 strokes
Radical

糸 (ito・itohen)
Related Keywords
flourish plants grow thickly corvee compulsory labor forced song ballad folk means path road omen