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勇 — courage, cheer up, be in high spirits

ゆう勇 courage

Grade 4 Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 9 strokes

U+52C7 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #1319 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #1509 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

courage
cheer up
be in high spirits
bravery
heroism

word

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).

勇(ゆう) yuu courage 勇(ゆう) 気(き) yuuki courage 勇(ゆう) 敢(かん) yuukan brave

Stroke order

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Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

マ ma-shape (graphical primitive)

おとこ男 male

Used as component in (1)

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.