憂
yōu

sad

忧 (憂) yōu
worry verb
to be concerned, anxious, or worried about something

看到庄稼枯萎，农民心中充满了忧。

kàn​dào zhuāng​jia kū​wěi, nóng​mín xīn​zhōng chōng​mǎn le yōu.

Seeing the crops wither, the farmers' hearts were filled with worry.

mourning noun
to observe a formal period of mourning for a deceased parent (literary)

由于老家有忧，他不得不请假回家。

yóu​yú lǎo​jiā yǒu yōu, tā bù​dé​bù qǐng​jià huí​jiā.

He had to take leave to return home due to a family bereavement.

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,461st most common 76.2 per million
Movie subtitles
1,910th most common 22.4 per million appears in 12% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
2.38 per million appears in 1% of films
Written text
11.9 per million

Details
Simplified
忧
Strokes
15
Unicode
U+6182

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)