Chinese Character Wiki

楽

lè, yuè

happy

Evolution

楽 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
楽 Bronze script Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)

Bronze script

Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
楽 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
楽 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
Definitions

楽  

lè

happy, glad; enjoyable; music; Japanese variant of 樂|乐[lè]

楽  

yuè

Japanese variant of 樂|乐[yuè]

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Unicode

U+697D

Shuowen

“樂，五聲八音緫名。象鼓鞞。木，虡也。”


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