樂

See also 楽, and 乐

Translingual

Han character

樂 (radical 75 木+11, 15 strokes, cangjie input 女戈木 (VID), four-corner 2290₄)

1. happy, glad
2. enjoyable
3. music
4. used as a surname

References

• KangXi: page 548, character 20
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 15399
• Dae Jaweon: page 936, character 6
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1280, character 16
• Unihan data for U+6A02

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Cantonese

Hanzi

樂 (simplified 乐, jyutping lok6, ngaau6, ngok6, Yale lok6, ngaau6, ngok6)

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Japanese

Kanji

樂

Readings

• On: がく (gaku), らく (raku), ごう (gō)
• Kun: たのしい (tanoshii), たのしむ (tanoshimu)

• Style: Kyūjitai kanji
  • Shinjitai equivalent: 楽

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Korean

Hanja

樂
Eumhun:

• Sound (hangeul): 악, 락>낙, 요 (revised: ak, rak>nak, yo, McCune-Reischauer: ak, rak>nak, yo, Yale: ak, lak>nak, yo)

• Name (hangeul): 풍류()

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Mandarin

Hanzi

樂 (simplified 乐, pinyin lè (le4), luò (luo4), yào (yao4), yuè (yue4), liáo (liao2), Wade-Giles le⁴, lo⁴, yao⁴, yüeh⁴)

Compounds

• 樂團
• 樂園

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Middle Chinese

Han character

樂 (*lɑk, *ngak)

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Vietnamese

Han character

樂 (lạc (happy), nhạc, nhác (music))