輸 means “transport, ship”

ゆ · yu

Also: send, be inferior

On'yomi (Chinese reading)

ユ, シュ

JLPT N2 · Taught in grade 5 · 16 strokes

The story

A cart (車) beside a dugout boat (兪, with 舟 squeezed into its 月): goods moving by land and by water. 輸出 is export and 輸入 import, and island Japan lives on both, shipping cars out and bringing nearly all its oil in.

Used in 輸出 (yushutsu, export), 輸入 (yunyuu, import), and 輸送 (yusou, transport)

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