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憂 - Melancholy
In ancient poetry, Melancholy was pictured as a crown of sorrow pressing down during the cold winter, weighing as heavily as a hundred burdens on the fragile heart—a feeling captured in Heian-era waka about longing in frostbitten nights.
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憂 - Melancholy
Index #1019
Grade 6
15 strokes
JLPT Level: N1
Readings: ユウ, うれ・える, うれ・い
Kanji Primes
Compound Kanji

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