忧yōu
sad, grieving; melancholy, grief. 7 strokes, radical 忄, first met in HSK 6.
Pinyin yōuStrokes 7Radical 忄Band HSK 6Words 1
How to write 忧
Strokes 1–3 write 忄, then strokes 4–7 write 尤.
Free, with no account: the app draws each stroke, then you write it and it says which stroke went wrong.
Print a 米字格 practice sheet for 忧 · the stroke-order rules
What 忧 is made of
忄 (xīn, heart) and 尤 (yóu, especially).
忄 carries the meaning — heart — and 尤 carries the sound.
Words that use 忧
| 担忧 | to worry, be anxious 指心里放不下而忧虑 乒乓健儿斩获单打金牌，破除赛前种种担忧。It dispelled every prior worries before the match. Lesson 565, 崇勋尚贤 · 匠心筑梦与经纬大道 · Civic Excellence & Artisanal Legacy |
Characters that share the sound part 尤
Written with the same phonetic, so their readings tend to rhyme with each other.
More characters with the radical 忄
All 61 of them, and what the radical means, on the 心 radical page.