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: 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) that have existed since the Song dynasty. Also found as a cursive form (草書) of 樂 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, 乐, 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