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Kanji Detail for 憂 - "grief, melancholy, worry"

憂

  • Meaning

    憂 means "grief, melancholy, worry."

    1. Grief - Deep sorrow; sadness.

    2. Worry - Anxious concern.

    3. Melancholy - A pensive sadness.

    4. Mourning - Grieving for the dead.

  • Words using 憂

    • 憂慮 ゆうりょ Listen anxiety; concern; fear

  • Four-character idioms with 憂

    • 一喜一憂 いっきいちゆう Listen alternating between happiness and anxiety; swinging between joy and sorrow; being glad and sad by turns
    • 内憂外患 ないゆうがいかん Listen troubles both at home and abroad
    • 先憂後楽 せんゆうこうらく Listen worrying before one's people worry, enjoying oneself only after one's people have enjoyed themselves (a precept to be observed by a ruler)
    • 遠慮近憂 えんりょきんゆう Listen failure to think of the long term leads to grief in the short term

  • Tattoo check: 憂

    • Verified meaning: grief, melancholy, worry
    • Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises
    • Used in real Japanese given names (read うい, うらん, うれい, ゆう)

    A single kanji rarely maps one-to-one onto an English word. Read the meanings and associations above as a set — a character that fits the dictionary definition can still carry a connotation you did not intend.

  • Name readings of 憂

    Given names 憂(うい)Listen 憂(うらん)Listen 憂(うれい)Listen 憂(ゆう)Listen

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    melancholy; grieve; lament; be anxious; sad; unhappy

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    sad, grieved; grief, melancholy

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    to worry; to concern oneself with; worried; anxiety; sorrow; (literary) to observe mourning

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    sad, grieving; melancholy, grief

    XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

    Worry. | Illness. Such as 采薪之憂. See (Mencius). | Mourning is 憂. Now, losing parents is called 丁憂.

  • Onyomi

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    yuu(ユウ) ユウ

  • Kunyomi

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    u.i(うい) うい

    u.ki(う-き) う-き

    ure.eru(うれ-える) うれ-える

    urei(うれ-い) うれ-い

  • Strokes

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    15 strokes

  • Radical

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    心 忄 (kokoro・shitagokoro・risshimben)

  • Related Keywords

    grief worry melancholy mourning pain suffering anxiety sorrow anguish depression despair distress gloom mournful sad

Sentences including 憂

  • The failure depressed him.

  • I am depressed by my illness.

  • I often get the blues.

  • I have the blues today.

  • She felt blue.

  • This will bring you to grief.

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