幽 — kanji meaning “seclude”
幽
seclude, confine to a room, deep, profound, secluded, faint, dark, tranquil, calm
- Meanings
- seclude, confine to a room, deep, profound, secluded, faint, dark, tranquil, calm
- On'yomi
- ユウ (yuu)
- Kun'yomi
- ふか.い、かす.か、くら.い、しろ.い
- Strokes
- 9
- School grade
- 8
- JLPT (old scale)
- Level 1
- Newspaper frequency
- #1996 of 2,500
- Classical radical
- 52
- Chinese reading
- yōu — Chinese character page
Words with 幽
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 幽霊 | ゆうれい yuurei | ghost; specter; spectre |
| 幽閉 | ゆうへい yuuhei | confinement; imprisonment; incarceration |
| 幽玄 | ゆうげん yuugen | mysterious profundity; quiet beauty; the subtle and profound |
| 幽鬼 | ゆうき yuuki | ghost; revenant; spirit (of the dead) |
| 幽界 | ゆうかい yuukai | hades; realm of the dead |
| 幽谷 | ゆうこく yuukoku | deep ravine; glen |
| 幽香 | ゆうこう yuukou | fragrance |
| 幽門 | ゆうもん yuumon | pylorus; opening of stomach into duodenum |
| 幽冥 | ゆうめい yuumei | semidarkness; deep and strange; hades |
| 幽囚 | ゆうしゅう yuushuu | imprisonment |
| 幽す | ゆうす yuusu | to confine to a room |
| 幽暗 | ゆうあん yuuan | gloom; darkness; seclusion |
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