漢字Kanji · in States & Attributes
幽: seclude, confine to a room
Also: deep, profound, secluded, faint, dark, tranquil, calm
JLPT N19 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met
山 carries the meaning · 幺 carries meaning and sound
9 strokes
Small seal · Qin Today
Small seal: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
One reading, and the words that use it
ユウyuu · on'yomi · in compounds
- 幽霊ゆうれいghost; specter; spectre
- 幽閉ゆうへいconfinement; imprisonment; incarceration
- 幽暗ゆうあんgloom; darkness; seclusion
Also read ふかい, かすか, くらい, しろい, with no example words in our sources. Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“A tiny beginning! This radical represents the smallest, thinnest piece of thread—one so fine it is almost invisible to the eye.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
The 幺 family reads ヨウ (you); 幽 is read ユウ.
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · yōu
Same form: 幽 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 幽 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 幽 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin yōu most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
One click tells us. No sign-up.