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漢字Kanji · in Human Body & People

愉: pleasure, happy

Also: rejoice

JLPT N112 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met

忄 carries the meaning · 俞 gives the sound

12 strokes

One reading, and the words that use it

ユyu · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 愉快ゆかい
  • 不愉快ふゆかいunpleasant; disagreeable; displeasing
  • 愉楽ゆらくpleasure

Also read たのしい, たのしむ, with no example words in our sources. Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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忄

Also built on heart (忄)

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俞

Also built on 俞

愉 takes the 俞 family's reading, ユ (yu).

Also read ユ

10 kanji share this on'yomi
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · yú

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

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

Pinyin yú 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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