樂

• In mainland China (for its traditional form based on Xin Zixing 新字形), Japanese kanji, Korean hanja and Vietnamese Nôm, the bottom component is written 木, which is the historical form found in the Kangxi dictionary.
• In Taiwan and Hong Kong (based on the Big5 encoding standard), the bottom component is written 𣎳 instead.
• Three CJK compatibility ideographs exist at U+F914, U+F95C and U+F9BF. All three forms are the same as the form used in Korean hanja.

樂 (radical 75, 木+11, 15 strokes, cangjie input 女戈木 (VID), four-corner 2290₄, composition ⿱⿲幺白幺木(GHJKV) or ⿱⿲幺白幺⿻十八(T))

• 𭀅, 𠘙, 嚛(𪠸), 㜰, 𡾒, 㦡, 擽(𭢫/㧰), 濼(泺), 𤢴, 𣋵, 䑈, 櫟(檪/栎), 爍(𭶒/烁), 瓅(𬍛), 皪, 䁻(䀥), 礫(䃯/砾), 𥽗, 纅, 𦘈, 𧔉, 觻, 𧭥, 䟏, 躒(跞), 轢(𮝩/轹), 䤕, 鑠(𮣏/铄), 𩟧, 𩧂, 鱳, 𫿾, 𪇱, 藥(薬/𣛙), 𤻲(𬏤)

• 楽 (Japanese shinjitai)
• 乐 (Simplified Chinese)

• KangXi: page 548, character 20
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 15399
• Dae Jaweon: page 936, character 6
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1280, character 16
• Unihan data for U+6A02

• Unihan data for U+F914

• Unihan data for U+F95C

• Unihan data for U+F9BF

Historical forms of the character 樂
Shang	Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Ideogrammic compound (會意) : 糸 (“string”) + 木 (“wood”) – strings on a piece of wood, i.e. a wooden musical instrument.

The oracle bone form shows two strings connected to the wood. In the bronze inscriptions, a 白 (OC *braːɡ) component was added in between the two strings, which may either represent the thumb (fiddling) or a phonetic part.

“music; joyful”

The etymological relationship between “music” and “joy” has been discussed in Wulff (1935) and Unger (1983). Unger draws comparison with the following semantic parallelism in Tibetan: རོལ་མོ (rol mo, “music”) and རོལ (rol, “to enjoy; to amuse oneself; to play”).

Also comparable is Middle Khmer leṅa (“to play”) and bhleṅa (“(playing) music”), whence Thai เล่น (lên, “to play”) and เพลง (pleeng, “music”).

樂

1. music; tune; melody; song

   音樂 / 音乐  ―  yīnyuè  ―  music

2. ^† to play music; to sing
3. ^† musical instrument
4. Short for 樂經／乐经 (Yuèjīng, “Classic of Music”).
5. A surname​.

樂

1. joyful; happy; glad
2. enjoyable; fun
3. happiness; joy; pleasure

   樂趣 / 乐趣  ―  lèqù  ―  delight; pleasure

4. ^† lasciviousness; lechery; decadence
5. to laugh; to smile
6. to enjoy; to love
7. 24th tetragram of the Taixuanjing; "joy" (𝌝)
8. A surname​.

樂

1. ^† to be fond of; to enjoy; to appreciate

   • 知者樂水，仁者樂山。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     知者乐水，仁者乐山。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Analects of Confucius, circa 475 – 221 BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

     Zhì zhě yào shuǐ, rén zhě yào shān. [Pinyin]

     The wise find pleasure in water; the virtuous find pleasure in hills.

樂

1. Used in place names.

   樂亭 / 乐亭  ―  Làotíng  ―  Laoting County, Hebei Province

   樂陵 / 乐陵  ―  Làolíng  ―  Laoling, Shandong Province

樂

1. Used in compounds.

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 楽)

1. Kyūjitai form of 楽

From Middle Chinese 樂 (MC ŋˠau^H):

• Go-on: ぎょう (gyō)^{←げう (geu, historical)}
• Kan-on: ごう (gō)^{←がう (gau, historical)}
• Kun: このむ (konomu, 樂む)

From Middle Chinese 樂 (MC ŋˠʌk̚, “music, singing”):

• Go-on: がく (gaku)
• Kan-on: がく (gaku)
• Kun: かなでる (kanaderu, 樂でる)

From Middle Chinese 樂 (MC lɑk̚, “comfort, ease”):

• Go-on: らく (raku)
• Kan-on: らく (raku)
• Kan’yō-on: ろう (rō)^{←らう (rau, historical)}
• Kun: たのしい (tanoshii, 樂しい); たのしみ (tanoshimi, 樂); たのしむ (tanoshimu, 樂しむ)
• Nanori: ささ (sasa); もと (moto); よし (yoshi)

樂 (eumhun 노래 악 (norae ak))

1. music; tune; melody; song

樂 (eumhun 즐길 락 (jeulgil rak), South Korea 즐길 낙 (jeulgil nak))

1. happiness; joy; pleasure

樂 (eumhun 좋아할 요 (joahal yo))

1. to be fond of; to enjoy; to appreciate

樂 (lạc, nhạc)

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