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忧郁

yōu yù

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Traditional 憂鬱

忧郁 (yōu yù) means "sullen; depressed; melancholy; dejected". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 忧郁 means

1. sullen; depressed; melancholy; dejected

The characters in 忧郁

• 忧yōuto worry; to concern oneself with; worried
• 郁yù(bound form) strongly fragrant

Example sentences

• 今天我很忧郁。
  Jīntiān wǒ hěn yōuyù.
  Today I feel melancholy.
• 她偶尔有忧郁的心情。
  Tā ǒu'ěr yǒu yōuyù de xīnqíng.
  She sometimes gets depressed.
• 汤姆饱受忧郁症之苦。
  Tom struggles with depression.
• 我每个星期一都觉得很忧郁。
  Wǒ měi gè Xīngqīyī dōu juéde hěn yōuyù.
  I always feel blue on Mondays.
• 因为他有忧郁症，所以不管你说什么他都会被无罪释放。
  Yīnwèi tā yǒu yōuyùzhèng, suǒyǐ bù guǎn nǐ shuō shénme tā dōu huì bèi wúzuì shìfàng.
  It doesn’t matter what you say, he’ll be acquitted because of depression.
• 因为他有忧郁症，所以不管你说什幺他都会被无罪释放。
  It doesn’t matter what you say, he’ll be acquitted because of depression.

Words starting with 忧郁

• 忧郁症yōu yù zhèng(psychology) depression

Words containing 忧郁

• 抗忧郁药kàng yōu yù yàoantidepressant

Sounds the same

Read yōu yù, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 优裕plenty; abundance

Where 忧郁 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · yòu–yǔ (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read yōu yù correctly.
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