許 — Chinese character
許
xǔ
to consent, to permit; to promise, to betroth
- Pinyin
- xǔ
- Radical
- 149 ⾔ (Speech)
- Strokes
- 11
- Components
- 言 午
- Formation
- pictophonetic — speech; meaning component 言; sound component 午
- Simplified
- 许
- Japanese
- 許 as a kanji
許 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Mencius 14 · Zhuangzi 24
- Mencius 1A.7
- Mencius 2A.1
- Mencius 3A.4
- Zhuangzi Transcendental Bliss
- Zhuangzi The Great Supreme
- Zhuangzi The Universe
- Zhuangzi The Tao of God
- Zhuangzi Hsü Wu Kuei
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.