優 — tenderness, excel
優
- Meaning
- tenderness, excel, surpass, actor, superiority
- On reading
- ユウyuuウu
- Kun reading
- やさしいyasashiiすぐれるsugureruまさるmasaru
- Strokes
- 17
- Learned in
- Grade 6 of elementary school in Japan
優 in names
When I turn a name into kanji, I use 優 for the sound “yu” (ゆ) or “yuu” (ゆう).
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Stroke order from KanjiVG © Ulrich Apel (CC BY-SA 3.0). Meanings and readings from KANJIDIC2 © EDRDG (CC BY-SA 4.0).