優 — tenderness, excel, surpass

やさしい優 tenderness

Grade 6 Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 17 strokes quality

U+512A Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #334 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #1068 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

tenderness
excel
surpass
actor
superiority
gentleness

word

やさ yasa Kun'yomi Kun'yomi (訓読み) — the native Japanese reading of this kanji. Used when the kanji appears alone or with okurigana (trailing hiragana).

優(やさ) しい yasashii kind

ゆう yuu On'yomi On'yomi (音読み) — the Sino-Japanese reading, derived from Chinese pronunciation. Most commonly used in compound words (jukugo).

優(ゆう) 勝(しょう) yuushou championship 優(ゆう) 先(せん) yuusen priority 俳(はい) 優(ゆう) haiyuu actor 女(じょ) 優(ゆう) joyuu actress 優(ゆう) 位(い) yuui superiority 優(ゆう) yuu excellence 声(せい) 優(ゆう) seiyuu voice actor 優(ゆう) 良(りょう) yuuryou excellent

すぐ sugu Kun'yomi Kun'yomi (訓読み) — the native Japanese reading of this kanji. Used when the kanji appears alone or with okurigana (trailing hiragana).

優(すぐ) れる sugureru to excel

Appears in idioms

優柔不断四字熟語

tenderness, tender, negative, severance

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

亻 person (left form)

ゆう憂 melancholy

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Kangxi Radical The Kangxi radicals are a set of 214 character components standardized in the 1716 Kangxi Dictionary. Every kanji is classified under one radical, used for dictionary lookup and character organization.

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