優

Meaning

優 centers on a person who stands out through a combination of skill and kindness: excelling or surpassing others, while also embodying tenderness and gentleness. The actor sense is a natural extension of someone who performs with superior grace.

• 優しいやさしい
  N5

  tender; kind; gentle; graceful; affectionate; amiable

• 優勝ゆうしょう
  N4

  overall victory; championship; winning the title

• 女優じょゆう
  N3

  actress; female actor

• 優先ゆうせん
  N1

  preference; priority; precedence; right of way

• 優秀ゆうしゅう
  N3

  superior; excellent; brilliant; outstanding

• 優れるすぐれる
  N3

  to be better (than); to be superior; to surpass; to excel; to be excellent

• 俳優はいゆう
  N4

  actor; actress; player; performer

• 優位ゆうい
  N1

  predominance; superiority; ascendancy; advantage; supremacy

• 男優だんゆう

  (male) actor

• 優良ゆうりょう

  superior; excellent; fine

• 優遇ゆうぐう

  favorable treatment; favourable treatment; hospitality; warm reception; good treatment; hearty welcome

• 優勢ゆうせい
  N1

  superiority; superior power; predominance; preponderance

• 優雅ゆうが
  N1

  elegant; graceful; refined

• 優等生ゆうとうせい
  N1

  honor student; honours student; model student; prize pupil

• 優美ゆうび
  N1

  grace; refinement; elegance; daintiness

• 優劣ゆうれつ

  (relative) merits; superiority or inferiority; quality

• 優柔不断ゆうじゅうふだん

  indecisive; irresolute; shilly-shally; vacillating

• 名優めいゆう

  great actor; famous actor; star

• 最優遇さいゆうぐう

  most favourable treatment; most favorable treatment; very warm reception

• 優先的ゆうせんてき

  preferential

• 優越感ゆうえつかん
  N1

  superiority complex; sense of superiority

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