Hanja Analyzer
悦

悦 — yeol

Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).

This is the Japanese glyph form. The Korean form is 悅.

Korean reading
기쁠 열
Romanization
yeol
English
pleased, contented, gratified
Mandarin
yuè
Japanese on'yomi
エツ
Japanese kun'yomi
よろこ.ぶ よろこ.ばす
Japanese usage
Jōyō kanji
School grade
Secondary (Jōyō)
Newspaper frequency
#1,762 of 2,500
Strokes
10
Variant forms
悅
Radical
心 (61, 7 residual)
Unicode
U+60A6

Parts that make up 悦

  • 忄 마음 심variant of 心 심장을 본뜬 것느낌과 생각, 마음의 움직임
  • 兌 바꿀/기쁠 태, 날카로울 예 입을 벌려 웃는 사람‘태·탈·열·세’ 계열의 소리

How 悦 was formed

Traditional analysis treats 悦 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 心, 兌.

Japanese words with 悦

  • 満悦まんえつ great delight; great satisfaction; rapture
  • 悦えつ self-satisfaction; rejoicing
  • 悦楽えつらく joy; pleasure; delight
  • 喜悦きえつ joy
  • 法悦ほうえつ religious ecstasy; religious exultation; ecstasy
  • 愉悦ゆえつ joy; pleasure; delight
  • 恐悦きょうえつ delight
  • 欣悦きんえつ joy; gladness
  • 悦哉えっさい musket (male Japanese sparrowhawk)
  • 怡悦いえつ rejoicing
  • 快悦かいえつ delight; pleasure; enjoyment
  • 淫悦いんえつ lewd pleasure; lascivious delight; carnal joy

Other hanja read “열”

Other hanja with radical 心

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