憂

See also 忧

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): phonetic 𢚧 + semantic 夊

Han character

憂 (radical 61 心+11, 15 strokes, cangjie input 一月心竹水 (MBPHE), four-corner 1024₇)

1. sad, grieved
2. grief, melancholy

Derived terms

• 優, 櫌, 擾, 鄾, 瀀, 嚘

References

• KangXi: page 401, character 26
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11170
• Dae Jaweon: page 741, character 13
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2341, character 14
• Unihan data for U+6182

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Cantonese

Hanzi

憂 (simplified 忧, jyutping jau1, Yale yau1)

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Japanese

Kanji

憂 (common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• On: ゆう (yū)
• Kun: うれえる (ureeru), うれい (urei), うい (ui)

Compounds

憂鬱

憂慮

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Korean

Hanja

憂 (hangeul 우, revised u, McCune-Reischauer u, Yale wu)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

憂 (simplified 忧, pinyin yōu (you1), zhèng (zheng4), Wade-Giles yu¹, cheng⁴)

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Vietnamese

Han character

憂 (ưu, âu)