忧
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to worry; to concern oneself with; worried; anxiety; sorrow; (literary) to observe mourning
- HSK 3.0
- Level 6
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 心 +4
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 憂
- Common rank
- #1,585
- Unicode
- U+5FE7
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Formation & memory
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How to remember it
worried · Heisig RSH #578
state of mind + Frankenpooch
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 忧
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 先天下之忧而忧，后天下之乐而乐 | to be the first to worry about affairs of state, and the last to enjoy oneself (quotation … | |
| 生于忧患，死于安乐 | to thrive in calamity and perish in soft living (idiom); life springs from sorrow and cala… | |
| 报喜不报忧 | to report only the good news, not the bad news; to hold back unpleasant news; to sweep bad… | |
| 一则以喜，一则以忧 | happy on the one hand, but worried on the other | |
| 衣食无忧 | not having to worry about clothes and food (idiom); to be provided with the basic necessit… | |
| 人无远虑，必有近忧 | He who gives no thought to far-flung problems soon finds suffering nearby (idiom, from Ana… | |
| 排忧解难 | to resolve a difficult situation and leave worries behind (idiom) | |
| 后顾之忧 | fears of trouble in the rear (idiom); family worries (obstructing freedom of action); worr… | |
| 忧心 | concerned; worried; disturbed; anxious | |
| 喜忧参半 | to have mixed feelings (about sth) | |
| 高枕无忧 | to sleep peacefully (idiom); (fig.) to rest easy; to be free of worries | |
| 分忧 | to share tribulations; to help sb with worries and difficulties | |
| 内忧外患 | internal trouble and outside aggression (idiom); in a mess both domestically and abroad | |
| 内忧外困 | internal trouble and outside aggression (idiom); in a mess both domestically and abroad | |
| 无忧无虑 | (idiom) carefree; without worries | |
| 报忧 | to report bad news; to announce failure, shortcoming or disaster | |
| 忧思 | to be anxious and worried; agitated; pensive | |
| 忘忧草 | daylily (Hemerocallis fulva) | |
| 替古人担忧 | to fret over the worries of long-departed people (idiom); to worry unnecessarily; crying o… | |
| 丁忧 | (literary) to be in mourning after the death of a parent |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 尤 — compare how they read.