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忧

yōu

sad

Phonosemantic compound. 忄 represents the meaning and 尤 represents the sound. Simplified form of 憂.

Components
忄 meaning component

忄  Meaning component

xin, xīn

  

heart

忄 is a component form of 心.

尤 sound component

尤  Sound component

yóu

  

especially

Evolution

忧 Seal script Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal script

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
忧 Seal script Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal script

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
忧 Seal script Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal script

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
忧 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
忧 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

忧 (憂) 

yōu

sad, grieved; grief, melancholy; to worry; to concern oneself with; worried; anxiety; sorrow; (literary) to observe mourning

Most common words with 忧
Freq.
Word
Meaning

担忧

to worry

忧郁

sullen

忧伤

distressed

忧

to worry

忧虑

to worry

Statistics

HSK level 6

Appears in 12.4780% of movies

1910th most common character in movies

1461st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

7

Traditional

憂

Unicode

U+5FE7

Shuowen

“忧，不動也。从心，尤聲。讀若祐。”


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