楽: kanji meaning and names

Meanings, readings and the names that use it.

Kanji facts

Meaning
music, comfort, ease
On readings (katakana)
ガク、ラク、ゴウ
Kun readings (hiragana)
たの.しい、たの.しむ、この.む
Readings used in names (nanori)
さ、た、やす、ら
Strokes
13
Grade
2: kyōiku kanji, taught in elementary school year 2
Newspaper frequency rank
373 of the 2,500 kanji most used in newspapers
Korean reading (hangul)
악

In kun readings a dot separates the stem from the ending that is written in hiragana after the kanji (ひと.つ), and a hyphen marks a prefix or a suffix (ひと-).

Names that use 楽

These names have a written form that contains this kanji.

  • Sakura さくら 作楽 咲楽
  • Sora そら 素楽 宗楽