yuè

happy

Pictograph of an ancient wooden stringed musical instrument. The simplified character was adapted from the cursive form of the traditional character .

Evolution

乐 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
乐 Bronze script Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)

Bronze script

Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
乐 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
乐 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
乐 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
乐 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

() 

happy, glad; enjoyable; music; happy; cheerful; to laugh

() 

surname Le

() 

Yuè

surname Yue

Most common words with 乐
Freq.
Word
Meaning

快乐

happy

音乐

music

俱乐部

club (the organisation or its premises) (loanword)

happy

娱乐

to entertain

Component uses

Meaning component in 1 character (0 verified)

Sound component in 6 characters (0 verified)

Statistics

HSK level 3

Appears in 81.9318% of movies

293rd most common character in movies

619th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

5

Traditional

Unicode

U+4E50


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