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愉悦

yú yuè

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Traditional 愉悅

愉悦 (yú yuè) means "joyful; cheerful; delighted". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 愉悦 means

1. joyful
2. cheerful
3. delighted
4. joy
5. delight

The characters in 愉悦

• 愉yúpleased
• 悦yuèpleased

Example sentences

• 学习新的知识令人愉悦。
  Xuéxí xīn de zhīshi lìngrén yúyuè.
  Learning new information can make people happy.
• 没有任何娱乐像阅读这般廉价，也没有任何愉悦像阅读这般持久。
  Méiyǒu rènhé yúlè xiàng yuèdú zhèbān liánjià, yě méiyǒu rènhé yúyuè xiàng yuèdú zhèbān chíjiǔ.
  No hobby is as cheap as reading, nor provides such long lasting enjoyment.
• 我们在书中认识的人可以带给我们愉悦或是他们与我们生活中挚爱的朋友相似，或是因为他们是我们所不熟悉却乐于结识的人。
  Wǒmen zài shū zhōng rènshi de rén kěyǐ dàigěi wǒmen yúyuè huòshì tāmen yǔ wǒmen shēnghuó zhōng zhì'ài de péngyou xiāngsì, huòshì yīnwèi tāmen shì wǒmen suǒ bù shúxī què lèyú jiéshí de rén.
  The people we meet in books can delight us either because they resemble the friends we hold dear in real life, or because they are unfamiliar people that we are pleased to get to know.

Sounds the same

Read yú yuè, tone for tone, but written differently.

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