郁
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(bound form) strongly fragrant
Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How to remember it
depressed · Heisig RSH #2801
有 possess + city walls
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 郁
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 郁南县 | Yunan, a county in Yunfu City 雲浮市|云浮市[Yun2 fu2 Shi4], Guangdong | |
| 郁金香 | tulip | |
| 郁达夫 | Yu Dafu (1896-1945), poet and novelist | |
| 郁郁不得志 | soured by the loss of one's hopes | |
| 产后抑郁症 | postpartum depression | |
| 郁南 | see 鬱南縣|郁南县[Yu4 nan2 Xian4] | |
| 郁郁不乐 | discontented (idiom) | |
| 抑郁不平 | in a state of depression (idiom) | |
| 郁江 | Yu River | |
| 血郁 | (TCM) to have sluggish blood circulation | |
| 产后抑郁 | postpartum depression | |
| 郁结 | to suffer from pent-up frustrations; mental knot; emotional issue | |
| 阴郁 | (of skies or one's mood) gloomy | |
| 抗忧郁药 | antidepressant | |
| 郁塞 | constricted (feeling); pent-up; repressed | |
| 积郁 | (of gloomy thoughts etc) to smolder; to accumulate in one's mind; accumulated anxiety | |
| 抗抑郁药 | antidepressant | |
| 忧郁症 | (psychology) depression | |
| 致郁 | (slang) depressing | |
| 沉郁 | melancholy; gloomy |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 有 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 有 sound part | to have, to own, to possess; to exist | |
| 鲔 | little tuna; Euthynnus alletteratus | |
| 囿 | to limit, to constrain; pen, cell | |
| 宥 | to forgive, to pardon, to indulge | |
| 洧 | a river in Henan province | |
| 侑 | help, assist, repay kindness | |
| 迶 | to walk | |
| 铕 | europium |