優

優 — tenderness, excel, surpass

JLPT: JLPT N3
Strokes: 17
Taught in: School year 6
Frequency: #334 most common

Readings

On'yomi came with the character from Chinese; kun'yomi is the native Japanese word it was borrowed for. A dot marks where okurigana takes over, a hyphen marks a prefix or suffix position.

On'yomi: ゆう yuu

う u
Kun'yomi: やさ.しい yasa.shii

すぐ.れる sugu.reru

まさ.る masa.ru

Example words for this kanji are being written.

Words that use 優

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