忧 yōu in a sentence
Worried (excellent - abundant - give preferential treatment)
忧 (yōu) means Worried (excellent - abundant - give preferential treatment). Below are 6 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.
Dictionary examples
童年的日子无 忧 无虑。
Tóngnián de rìzi wúyōuwúlǜ.
The days of childhood are free of care.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 无忧无虑
他最近显得有些 忧 郁。
Tā zuìjìn xiǎnde yǒuxiē yōuyù.
He has seemed rather melancholy lately.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 忧郁
阴雨天容易让人 忧 郁。
Yīnyǔ tiān róngyì ràng rén yōuyù.
Wet, overcast weather easily makes people gloomy.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 忧郁
他向往无 忧 无虑的生活。
Tā xiàngwǎng wúyōuwúlǜ de shēnghuó.
He longs for a carefree life.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 无忧无虑
家里安排好了，他就没有后顾之 忧 了。
Jiā lǐ ānpái hǎo le, tā jiù méiyǒu hòugùzhīyōu le.
With things settled at home he had no worries left behind him.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 后顾之忧
公司解决了住房问题，员工没了后顾之 忧 。
Gōngsī jiějué le zhùfáng wèntí, yuángōng méi le hòugùzhīyōu.
The company sorted out housing, so staff no longer had that worry hanging over them.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 后顾之忧
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Words that contain 忧
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Questions about 忧
How is 忧 used in a sentence?
This page shows 6 sentences using 忧 (yōu, "Worried (excellent - abundant - give preferential treatment)"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.
Are these sentences machine generated?
No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.
Why do some sentences show 忧 inside a longer word?
Because that is where a single character usually lives. Seeing 忧 inside the words it builds is how the character stops being an isolated symbol and starts being something you can read.
Where can I see the full entry for 忧?
The dictionary page for 忧 has its stroke order, its traditional form, every sense the dictionary lists and a character-by-character breakdown. It is linked at the top of this page.
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