幽

seclude, confine to a room, deep, profound, secluded, faint, dark, tranquil, calm

Readings

On'yomi (音読み)

ユウ

Kun'yomi (訓読み)

かす.かくら.いしろ.いふか.い

Stroke Order

9 / 9

Information

Grade:8

Strokes:9

JLPT:N1

Frequency:1996

Vocabulary

ユウ

Word	Reading	Meaning
幽霊	ユウレイ	ghost; specter; spectre; apparition; phantom
幽鬱	ユウウツ	depression; melancholy; dejection; gloom; despondency
幽閉	ユウヘイ	confinement; imprisonment; incarceration
幽暗	ユウアン	gloom; darkness; seclusion
幽雅	ユウガ	profound elegance; refinement

Other

Word	Reading	Meaning
幽か	かすか	faint; dim; weak; slight; vague; indistinct; hazy; poor; wretched; meagre; meager; scanty
幽す	ゆうす	to confine to a room
幽明相隔てる	ゆうめいあいへだてる	to die
幽霊屋敷	ゆうれいやしき	haunted house
幽霊会社	ゆうれいがいしゃ	bogus company; paper company

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