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