Kanji Detail for 愈 - "surpass, heal, increasingly"

愈

Non-Jōyō Kanji

Meaning
愈 means "surpass, heal, increasingly."
1. Surpass - To exceed; to excel.
2. Heal - To cure; to recover from illness.
3. Increasingly - More and more; ever more.
Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:

KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

be superior; heal; more and more; increasingly; finally; beyond doubt

Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

more and more, even more

CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

the more...(the more...); to recover; to heal; better

Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

to recover, to heal; more and more

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

Better. (Analects) "Then is Shi better?" | More. Such as 求之愈急, 去之愈遠. | Recovered from illness is 愈. Such as 全愈.
Onyomi

yu(ゆ)
Kunyomi

iyoiyo(いよいよ)

masa.ru(まさる)
Strokes

13 strokes
Radical

心忄 (kokoro・shitagokoro・risshimben)
Related Keywords
surpass exceed excel heal cure recover illness increasingly ever