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漢字Kanji

虞: fear, uneasiness

Also: anxiety, concern, expectation, consideration

JLPT N113 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met

虍 carries the meaning · 呉 gives the sound

13 strokes
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Bronze: Wikimedia Commons, traced from Academia Sinica, CC0. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.

One reading, and the words that use it

グgu · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 憂虞ゆうぐanxiety; fear
  • 虞犯ぐはんbeing likely to commit a crime
  • 虞美人草ぐびじんそうcommon poppy (Papaver rhoeas); corn poppy

Also read おそれ, おもんぱかる, はかる, うれえる, あざむく, あやまる, のぞむ, たのしむ, with no example words in our sources. Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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虍

Also built on 虍

呉

Also built on give (呉)

The 呉 family reads ゴ (go); 虞 is read グ.

Also read グ

8 kanji share this on'yomi

Easy to confuse

The difference, side by side
虞 fear · 虍
vs誤 mistake · 言
虞 has 虍 where 誤 has 言.
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · yú

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

Simplified
虞 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
虞 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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