愁 — readings, stroke count and radical

Stroke order

Stroke order data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0).

Meaning

distress, grieve, lament, be anxious

English glosses from KANJIDIC2.

Readings

On (Sino-Japanese)
  • シュウJHS
Kun (native)
  • うれ(える)HS
  • うれ(い)HS
Other languages
  • 拼音chou2
  • 한글su
  • Hán-ViệtSầu

Labels show the school stage at which each Jōyō reading is taught.

Basics

Strokes
13 strokes
Radical
心(こころ)
JIS level
Level 1
JLPT (old scale)
Level 1
Unicode
U+6101

Components

Components this kanji is made of. Follow them to find similar kanji.

Composition (IDS): top–bottom ⿱秋心

Words using this kanji

  • 愁傷しゅうしょう嘆き悲しむこと。また、そのような思い。 可愛そうに思うこと。grief, sorrow
  • 愁訴しゅうそ事情を愁い、嘆き訴えること。complaint (of pain, suffering, etc.), appeal
  • 愁眉しゅうび心配や愁いでしかめた眉。心配そうな表情。worried look, melancholy air
  • 愁色しゅうしょくworried look
  • 愁然しゅうぜん悲しみに沈むさま。sorrowfully
  • 愁嘆しゅうたん愁い、嘆くこと。lamentation, sorrow, grief
  • 愁殺しゅうさつ非常に嘆き悲しむこと。非常に嘆き悲しませること。deep grief, deep sorrow
  • 愁嘆場しゅうたんばtragic scene (moving one to tears), heartrending scene, pathetic scene
  • 愁眉を開くしゅうびをひらくto feel relieved

Words starting with this kanji, most common first.

See all words containing this kanji(23 results)

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Lookup codes

SKIP
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2933.8
Spahn–Hadamitzky
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Heisig
967
Nelson
1729