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Pīnyīn Pronunciation
yù | yu4
English translation
to recover, to get well

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Number of strokes

18

Traditional form

Contains the radical

Part of speech

Non-morpheme / 非语素字 Fēi yǔsù zì

Learning hint

To recover from an illness  also provides the pronunciation

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Type

ideographic

Positional decomposition

疒愈

Explanation

Phonosemantic compound. xīn represents the meaning and represents the sound. Simplified form of .

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FrequencySimplifiedMeaningTraditional
治愈 zhì yù to cure治癒
to heal
痊愈 quán yù to recover completely (from illness or injury)痊癒
愈合 yù hé to heal愈合 yù hé
愈来愈 yù lái yù more and more愈來愈
愈演愈烈 yù yǎn yù liè ever more critical愈演愈烈 yù yǎn yù liè
愈发 yù fā all the more愈發
愈加 yù jiā all the more愈加 yù jiā
每况愈下 měi kuàng yù xià to steadily deteriorate每況愈下
韩愈 Hán Yù Han Yu (768-824), Tang dynasty essayist and poet, advocate of the classical writing 古文運動|古文运动 gǔ wén yùn dòng and neoclassical 復古|复古 fù gǔ movements韓愈
病愈 bìng yù to recover (from an illness)病癒
愈益 yù yì increasingly愈益 yù yì
每下愈况 měi xià yù kuàng to steadily deteriorate每下愈況
霍然而愈 huò rán ér yù to recover speedily (idiom); to get better quickly霍然而癒

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