Kanji Kaisen

漢字Kanji · in Textiles, Plants & Food

裕: abundant, rich

Also: fertile

JLPT N112 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met

衤 carries the meaning · 谷 gives the sound

12 strokes

One reading, and the words that use it

ユウyuu · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 余裕よゆうsurplus; margin; leeway
  • 富裕ふゆう
  • 裕福ゆうふく

Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Where it comes from

Origin · sourced

Phono-semantic compound (形聲)谷 (sound) + 衣 clothes (meaning)

Folk etymology claims 谷 to represent space in the clothes.

Source: Wiktionary, 裕 (rev. 93443821), CC BY-SA 4.0

Memory story · made up to help you remember

“Clothes (衤) + valley/mouth (谷). To have "clothes" that are as wide, loose, and "abundant" as a deep "valley"—the historical symbol of richness and ease.”
From the 衤 clothes story
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
衤

Also built on clothes (衤)

All 10
谷

Also built on valley (谷)

All 4

The 谷 family reads ヨウ (you); 裕 is read ユウ.

Also read ユウ

26 kanji share this on'yomiAll 26

Easy to confuse

The difference, side by side
裕 abundant · 衤
vs容 contain · 宀
裕 has 衤 where 容 has 宀.
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · yù

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

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

Pinyin yù 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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