The kanji 鬱: meaning, readings and stroke order
鬱
- Meaning
- gloomy, dense
- On reading
- ウツ utsu
- Kun reading
- —
- Strokes
- 29
- Radical
- 鬯 herbs, sacrificial wine
- Level
- Level 10 · the last years of senior high
Stroke order
Meaning in other languages
- Vietnamese
- u uất, um tùm (uất)
- Japanese
- きもちが ふさぐ。きが しげる。
- Korean
- 답답하다, 우거지다 (울)
- Chinese
- 忧郁、茂密 (郁)
Readings, words and example sentences
ウツ utsu · on reading · less common
憂鬱
gloomy, low
雨の 日は 憂鬱に なります。
I feel gloomy on rainy days.
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Readings, radicals: Kanjium, KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); strokes: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); Korean, simplified forms: Unicode Unihan. Meanings, sentences: Dino Kids (CC0). See Licences.