Kanji1 / 15
憂 kanji
melancholy, grieve, lament, be anxious, sad, unhappy
- JLPT level
- N1 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N1 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 15
- School grade
- Secondary school
On readings
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Kun readings
うれえるうれいういうき
Words with 憂
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —外憂external troubles; foreign threat
- —憂鬱症melancholia; severe depression
- —憂鬱質susceptibility to depression
- —憂国忌anniversary of Yukio Mishima's death (November 25)
- —内憂外患troubles both at home and abroad
- —先憂後楽worrying before one's people worry, enjoying oneself only after one's people have enjoyed themselves (a precept to be observed by a ruler)
- —遠慮近憂failure to think of the long term leads to grief in the short term
- —慨世憂国worrying about the conditions of the country out of sheer patriotism
- —憂国慨世worrying about the conditions of the country out of sheer patriotism
- —遠慮なければ近憂ありplan ahead or you will soon have worries
- —憂慼grief
- —憂欝depression; melancholy; dejection; gloom; despondency
- —憂欝症melancholia; severe depression
- —憂うつdepression; melancholy; dejection; gloom; despondency
- —憂うつ質susceptibility to depression
- —遠慮無ければ近憂ありplan ahead or you will soon have worries