優 — Chinese character
優
yōu
superior; elegant
- Pinyin
- yōu
- Radical
- 9 ⼈ (Man)
- Strokes
- 17
- Components
- 亻 憂
- Formation
- pictophonetic — person; meaning component 亻; sound component 憂
- Simplified
- 优
- Japanese
- 優 as a kanji
優 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Analects 3 · Mencius 1 · Doctrine of the Mean 2
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.