揺 – swing, shake, sway

12 strokesJōyō (secondary school)#1079 in newspaper frequencyN4 vocabulary

The kanji 揺 means swing, shake, sway, rock, tremble, vibrate. Its on’yomi (Chinese-derived reading) is ヨウ (you); its kun’yomi (native Japanese reading) is ゆ.れる、ゆ.る、ゆ.らぐ、ゆ.るぐ、ゆ.する、ゆ.さぶる、ゆ.すぶる、うご.く (yureru, yuru, yuragu, yurugu, yusuru, yusaburu, yusuburu, ugoku). It is written with 12 strokes, under radical 手 (no. 64).

Stroke order

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Readings

Type	Reading	Romaji
On’yomi	ヨウ	you
Kun’yomi	ゆ.れる	yureru
Kun’yomi	ゆ.る	yuru
Kun’yomi	ゆ.らぐ	yuragu
Kun’yomi	ゆ.るぐ	yurugu
Kun’yomi	ゆ.する	yusuru
Kun’yomi	ゆ.さぶる	yusaburu
Kun’yomi	ゆ.すぶる	yusuburu
Kun’yomi	うご.く	ugoku

A dot separates the kanji’s part from the okurigana (kana written after it), e.g. まな.ぶ → 学ぶ.

Radical and components

Radical: 手 (Kangxi radical 64). Components: 干・爪・凵・扎.

Words using 揺

揺れるゆれるto shake動揺どうようshaking揺らぐゆらぐto swing揺さぶるゆさぶるto shake

Example sentences

大地が揺れるのが感じられた。

The earth was felt to tremble.

Tatoeba #137399

このニュースを聞いて非常に動揺した。

I was profoundly disturbed by this news.

Tatoeba #223410

強い円が経済を揺さぶっている。

A strong yen is shaking the economy.

Tatoeba #180541

Kanji with the same radical

手持指投打提挙援担技撃推接授摘批

Sources: KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0), KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0), Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). About the data.