鬱

鬱 (Kangxi radical 192, 鬯+19, 29 strokes, cangjie input 木木月山竹 (DDBUH), four-corner 4472₂, composition ⿳⿲木缶木冖⿰鬯彡)

• 灪, 爩, 䖇, 𡯀, 𡿥, 𡿥, 𢺴, 𥘄, 𤓮, 𪓊

• KangXi: page 1458, character 18
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 45671
• Dae Jaweon: page 1990, character 22
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 858, character 12
• Unihan data for U+9B31

Historical forms of the character 鬱
Shang	Western Zhou	Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Qin slip script	Small seal script

Originally ideogrammic compound (會意) : 林 (“forest”) + 大 (“person”) + 勹.

Now phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *qud) : semantic 林 (“forest”) + phonetic 𩰪 ().

鬱

1. lush; luxuriant; exuberant; dense; thick
2. various; abundant; profuse
3. deep; obscure; profound
4. to gather; to stagnate; to become stagnant
5. depressed; gloomy; moody
6. melancholy; depression
7. to begrudge; to resent; to feel aggrieved
8. hot air (rising); steam
9. a kind of plum
10. name of a god
11. tall and big
12. putrid; putrefied
13. tulip; fragrant grass

    alt. forms: 𩰪 (yù), 䖇

14. (～水) name for a branch of the Pearl River, including the You River, Yu River and the Xun River in Guangxi, as well as the Xi River downstream in Guangdong
15. (～郡) name of an ancient Chinese prefecture
16. a surname

(common “Jōyō” kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 欝)

1. depression, gloom, melancholy

• Go-on: うち (uchi)
• Kan-on: うつ (utsu, Jōyō)
• Kun: こもる (komoru, 鬱る); しげる (shigeru, 鬱る); ふさがる (fusagaru, 鬱がる); ふさぐ (fusagu, 鬱ぐ)
• Nanori: しげる (shigeru)

鬱 has, at 29 strokes, the most strokes of any kanji in the jōyō kanji list or kanji kentei level 2.[1] The next highest kanji in the jōyō list is 鑑, at 23 strokes.

Prior to the Japanese script reform, this character was handwritten as 欝 using 25 strokes, similar to how "令" is often written differently in handwriting. However, after the reform, the character was excluded from the official lists. In 2010, only the print form was included in the new jōyō kanji list, and it is today taught to be written like the print form instead of like 欝 .

From Middle Chinese 鬱 (MC ʔɨut̚).

• (Tokyo) う​つ [úꜜtsù] (Atamadaka – [1])[2]
• IPA^(key): [ɯ̟ᵝt͡sɨᵝ]

鬱(うつ) • (utsu) -na (adnominal 鬱(うつ)な (utsu na), adverbial 鬱(うつ)に (utsu ni))

1. depressing

   鬱(うつ)な曲(きょく)

   utsu na kyoku

   depressing song

2. depressed

   鬱(うつ)な気(き)分(ぶん)

   utsu na kibun

   gloomy mood

   鬱(うつ)になりそう

   utsu ni narisō

   to be almost depressed about something

鬱(うつ) • (utsu) 

1. (psychiatry) depression

   鬱(うつ)を克(こく)服(ふく)する

   utsu o kokufuku suru

   overcome depression

• 鬱(うつ)病(びょう) (utsubyō)

鬱(うつ) • (utsu) 

1. dense (growth); lush; luxuriant
2. accumulate; stagnate
3. depression; gloom; melancholy

• 㭗

From Middle Chinese 鬱 (MC ʔɨut̚).

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [uɭ]
• Phonetic hangul: [울]

Wikisource 鬱 (eumhun 답답할 울 (dapdaphal ul))

1. Hanja form^? of 울 (“stuffy; stifling; suffocating”).

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典.

鬱: Hán Nôm readings: uất

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