(lè) - happy; music (also read yuè in 音乐) in Mandarin
lèTraditional: 乐
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Translation
happy; music (also read yuè in 音乐)
Word origin
A character that originally depicted a wooden frame strung with silk threads, that is a musical instrument, giving the reading yuè (music); the sense happy, read lè, developed from the pleasure that music brings.
- Origin
- pictographic
- Root
- originally a pictograph of a stringed instrument
Stroke order
乐
Examples
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Happy birthday!
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I listen to music every day.
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The children are very happy.
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He is happy to help others.
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She was overjoyed to hear the news.
乐 (lè) means happy, and read as yuè it means music. It anchors 快乐 (kuài lè) "happy" and 音乐 (yīn yuè) "music".
Appears in 5 words
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 乐.
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