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U+6A02, 樂
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6A02

[U+6A01]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+6A03]
U+F914, 樂
CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-F914

[U+F913]
CJK Compatibility Ideographs
[U+F915]
U+F95C, 樂
CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-F95C

[U+F95B]
CJK Compatibility Ideographs
[U+F95D]
樂 U+F9BF, 樂
CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-F9BF

[U+F9BE]
CJK Compatibility Ideographs
[U+F9C0]
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Translingual

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Alternative forms

  • In the Kangxi Dictionary, mainland China (for its traditional form based on Xin Zixing 新字形), Japanese kanji, Korean hanja and Vietnamese Nôm, the bottom component is written , which is the historical form found in the Kangxi dictionary.
  • In Taiwan and Hong Kong (based on the Big5 encoding standard), the bottom component is written without a hook instead.
  • Three CJK compatibility ideographs exist at U+F914, U+F95C and U+F9BF. All three forms are the same as the form used in Korean hanja.

Han character

(Kangxi radical 75, +11, 15 strokes, cangjie input 女戈木 (VID), four-corner 22904, composition ⿱⿲(GHJKV) or ⿱⿲幺⿻(T))

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 548, character 20
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 15399
  • Dae Jaweon: page 936, character 6
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1280, character 16
  • Unihan data for U+6A02
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Chinese

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  • (Written Standard Chinese?)
  • (Cantonese)

Glyph origin

More information Historical forms of the character 樂, Shang ...

Ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意): (string) + (wood) – strings on a piece of wood, i.e. a wooden musical instrument.

The oracle bone form shows two strings connected to the wood. In the bronze inscriptions, a (OC *braːɡ) component was added in between the two strings, which may either represent the thumb (fiddling) or a phonetic part.

Etymology

“music; joyful”
The etymological relationship between “music” and “joy” has been discussed in Wulff (1935) and Unger (1983). Unger draws comparison with the following semantic parallelism in Tibetan: རོལ་མོ (rol mo, music) and རོལ (rol, to enjoy; to amuse oneself; to play).
Also comparable is Middle Khmer leṅa (to play) and bhleṅa ((playing) music), whence Thai เล่น (lên, to play) and เพลง (pleeng, music).

Pronunciation 1


Note:
  • 5hhiaq - “music”;
  • 5ngoq - only in the placename 樂清 in Zhejiang.

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Definitions

  1. music; tune; melody; song
       yīnyuè   music
       yuèduì   band
       zòuyuè   to play music
  2. (obsolete) to play music; to sing
  3. (obsolete) musician
  4. (obsolete) musical instrument
  5. short for 樂經乐经 (Yuèjīng, “Classic of Music”)
  6. a surname
       Yuè   Yue Yi (a prominent military leader of the State of Yan during the Warring States period)
  7. (slang) short form for 樂子
Usage notes

The surname (yuè) is different from the surname ().

Synonyms
  • (music):

Compounds

Descendants

Sino-Xenic ():
  • Japanese: (がく) (gaku)
  • Korean: 악(樂) (ak)
  • Vietnamese: nhạc ()

Pronunciation 2



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Definitions

  1. joyful; happy; glad
    Synonym: (kuài)
    不可支不可支   bùkězhī   to be overwhelmed with joy
    心裡心里   xīnlǐ kāi le huā   to be overjoyed
  2. happiness; joy; pleasure
  3. (obsolete) lasciviousness; lechery; decadence
  4. to laugh; to smile
    [MSC, trad.]
    [MSC, simp.]
    Nǐ bǎ wǒ dòu le. [Pinyin]
    You amused me./You made me laugh.
  5. to enjoy; to love
    此不疲此不疲   cǐbùpí   to never get tired of it
  6. (Cantonese) short for 可樂可乐 (kělè, “cola”)
  7. 24th tetragram of the Taixuanjing; "joy" (𝌝)
  8. a surname
Usage notes

The surname () is different from the surname (yuè).

Synonyms
  • (to laugh; to smile):

Compounds

Descendants

Sino-Xenic ():

Pronunciation 3



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Definitions

  1. (obsolete) to be fond of; to enjoy; to appreciate

Compounds

  • 三樂 / 三乐
  • 仁者樂山 / 仁者乐山
  • 推賢樂善 / 推贤乐善
  • 損者三樂 / 损者三乐
  • 敬業樂群 / 敬业乐群
  • 樂山樂水 / 乐山乐水
  • 樂道安貧 / 乐道安贫
  • 益者三樂 / 益者三乐
  • 知者樂水 / 知者乐水

Descendants

Sino-Xenic ():

Pronunciation 4


Definitions

  1. Used in place names.
       Làotíng   Laoting (county of Hebei)
       Làolíng   Laoling (county-level city in Shandong)

Pronunciation 5

For pronunciation and definitions of – see (“to treat; to cure; to heal; therapy; treatment”).
(This character is a variant form of ).

Pronunciation 6


Definitions

  1. Used in compounds.

Compounds

References

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Japanese

Shinjitai

Kyūjitai

Kanji

(Jinmeiyō kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form )

  1. Kyūjitai form of

Readings

From Middle Chinese (MC ngaewH):

  • Go-on: ぎょう (gyō)げう (geu, historical)
  • Kan-on: ごう ()がう (gau, historical)

From Middle Chinese (MC ngaewk, “music, singing”):

From Middle Chinese (MC lak, “comfort, ease”):

Korean

Etymology 1

From Middle Chinese (MC ngaewk).

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Pronunciation

Hanja

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

(eumhun 노래 (norae ak))

  1. hanja form? of (music; tune; melody; song)

Compounds

Etymology 2

From Middle Chinese (MC lak).

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Pronunciation

Hanja

(eumhun 즐길 (jeulgil rak), word-initial (South Korea) 즐길 (jeulgil nak))

  1. hanja form? of / (to enjoy; happiness; pleasure)

Compounds

Etymology 3

From Middle Chinese (MC ngaewH).

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Pronunciation

Hanja

(eumhun 좋아할 (joahal yo))

  1. (literary) hanja form? of (to be fond of; to like)

Compounds

References

  • 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전/電子字典.
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Vietnamese

Alternative forms

Han character

: Hán Nôm readings: lạc, nhạc

Noun

More information chữ Hán Nôm in this term ...

  1. chữ Hán form of nhạc (music (as a hobby or object of enjoyment))
    Near-synonym: 音樂 (âm nhạc) (as a concept)
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