漢字Kanji · in Action & Movement
遊: play
JLPT N312 strokesGrade 3Your ink: 白 Not met
- 斿(sound)
- ⻌road(meaning)
⻌ carries the meaning · 斿 gives the sound
12 strokes
Bronze · Zhou Today
Bronze: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Three readings, and the words that use each
ユウyuu · on'yomi · in compounds
- 遊園地ゆうえんちamusement park
- 遊説ゆうぜいelection campaign
- 外遊がいゆうforeign travel
- 遊撃ゆうげきraid; military attack by a mobile unit
- 遊牧ゆうぼくnomadism
ユyu · on'yomi
- 物見遊山ものみゆさんa pleasure trip
あそぶasobu · kun'yomi · on its own
- 遊ぶあそぶplay [v.i.]
- 遊びあそびplay; playing; game
Also read あそばす, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0 · JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“This swooping radical is the winding road you walk upon! It curves under the rest of the kanji like a path being carved through a landscape.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
Also read ユ
10 kanji share this on'yomiIn ChineseNo clear Chinese counterpart · yóu
Unihan gives no clear Chinese counterpart for this character.
Pinyin yóu 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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