等于 (děng yú)

Character breakdown

• 等 (děng) · 12 strokes

  Phonosemantic compound. ⺮ represents the meaning and 寺 represents the sound.

• 于 (Yú) · 3 strokes

  Pictograph of a musical wind instrument with a reed, which is now written as 竽. The current meaning is a phonetic loan.