Memory phrase for the character: 愉

愉

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Meaning

happiness, cheerful, joyful, pleased

Pronunciation

yú

Explanation

 Left: feeling 忄, right: assent, approve 俞 (When the arrowhead gets into the body 月/肉 to cut 刂, I am assenting. [cf. arrow 箭])

Mnemonic
 
Feelings of assent are: happiness and cheerfulness.

Radicals

忄 feelings
俞 arrow headThis radical gets its meaning by the similarity to the character for arrow: 箭 (jiàn), which has a similar body under the bamboo 竹. Due to the pointed top this radical is understood as the arrow's head 人 that goes into the flesh 月/肉 and cuts刂.




 Vocabulary

愉快 yú kuài  cheerful; cheerily; delightful; pleasant; pleasantly; pleasing; happy; delighted
 

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