Kanji Kaisen

漢字Kanji · in Human Body & People

侑: urge to eat

JLPT N18 strokesName kanji (jinmeiyō)Your ink: 白 Not met

亻 carries the meaning · 有 is drawn in

8 strokes

Four readings

ユウyuu · on'yomi · in compounds

No common words use this reading.

ウu · on'yomi

No common words use this reading.

すすめるsusumeru · kun'yomi · on its own

No common words use this reading.

たすけるtasukeru · kun'yomi

No common words use this reading.

成り立ち

Where it comes from

Memory story · made up to help you remember

“See the person standing tall, ready to interact with the world! When this radical appears on the left, it signals that the kanji describes a human quality, a social relationship, or an action that people perform.”
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered

Easy to confuse

The difference, side by side
侑 urge to eat · 亻
vs宥 soothe · 宀
侑 has 亻 where 宥 has 宀.
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · yòu

Same form: 侑 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).

Simplified
侑 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
侑 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin yòu most common reading

Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.

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