幽

幽 — seclude, confine to a room, deep

JLPT: JLPT N1
Strokes: 9
Taught in: Secondary school
Frequency: #1996 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
Kun'yomi: ふか.い fuka.i

かす.か kasu.ka

くら.い kura.i

しろ.い shiro.i

Example words for this kanji are being written.

Words that use 幽

A kanji is worth learning for the words it unlocks. These are from the JLPT vocabulary lists.

幽霊ゆうれい ghost JLPT N1