幽 — Chinese character
幽
yōu
quiet, secluded, tranquil; dark
- Pinyin
- yōu
- Radical
- 52 ⼳ (Short Thread)
- Strokes
- 9
- Components
- 山 幺 幺
- Formation
- ideographic — Small niches 幺 in the mountainside 山; 幺 also provides the pronunciation
- Japanese
- 幽 as a kanji
Common words with 幽
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 幽默 | yōu mò | (loanword) humor; humorous |
| 幽灵 (幽靈) | yōu líng | specter; apparition |
| 幽默感 | yōu mò gǎn | sense of humor |
| 黑色幽默 | hēi sè yōu mò | black humor |
| 幽静 (幽靜) | yōu jìng | quiet; secluded |
| 幽暗 | yōu àn | gloom |
| 幽会 (幽會) | yōu huì | (usually of lovers) to rendezvous in secret |
| 幽幽 | yōu yōu | faint; indistinct |
| 幽谷 | yōu gǔ | deep valley |
| 幽浮 | yōu fú | (Tw) (loanword) UFO; unidentified flying object |
| 幽冥 | yōu míng | dark; hell |
| 幽雅 | yōu yǎ | serene and elegant (of a place); ethereal (of music) |
English words written with 幽
幽 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Art of War 1 · I Ching 3 · Mencius 5 · Zhuangzi 7
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.