pleasure

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound. Simplified form of .

Components
女 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

woman

吴 sound component

  Sound component

  

one of warring states

Evolution

娱 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Traditional script

Modern
娱 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

() 

pleasure, enjoyment, amusement; to amuse

Most common words with 娱
Freq.
Word
Meaning

娱乐

to entertain

to amuse

自娱

to amuse oneself

娱乐场所

place of entertainment

文娱

entertainment

Statistics

HSK level 6

Appears in 10.7160% of movies

1988th most common character in movies

2493rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Traditional

Unicode

U+5A31


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