乐

See also: 东 and 樂

乐 U+4E50, 乐 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-4E50 ← 乏 [U+4E4F] CJK Unified Ideographs 乑 → [U+4E51]

Translingual

Stroke order

Traditional	樂
Shinjitai	楽
Simplified	乐

Han character

乐 (Kangxi radical 4, 丿+4, 5 strokes, cangjie input 竹女木 (HVD), four-corner 7290₄, composition ⿻⿱丿𠃋小)

Derived characters

• 𪠸, 㧰, 泺, 栎, 烁, 𬍛, 轹, 䀥, 砾, 铄, 跞, 𬼏, 𬏤

Related characters

• 樂 (Traditional form of 乐)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 82, character 13
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 37, character 5
• Unihan data for U+4E50

Chinese

Glyph origin

Unorthodox variant simplified from 樂 found in a moveable type copy of 《嶺南逸事》. First attested in 《宋元以來俗字譜》, a variant forms dictionary compiled in 1930 that records unorthodox forms (俗字 (súzì)) that have existed since the Song dynasty. Also found as a cursive form (草書 (cǎoshū)) of 樂 / 乐 in 《中國書法大字典》.

Eventually adopted as an official simplified character by the People's Republic of China in the 1956 Chinese Character Simplification Scheme.

Definitions

For pronunciation and definitions of 乐 – see 樂 (“music; tune; melody; song; to play music; to sing; etc.”). (This character is the simplified and variant form of 樂).

Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China, Malaysia, and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.

References

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A02016-002