melancholy, grieve, lament, be anxious, sad, unhappy
憂 centers on a heavy, inward emotional state: sadness, melancholy, grieving, or anxious worry. The meanings all describe a troubled heart.
憂 originally depicted a person with a troubled expression, combining 頁 (head) with 心 (heart) and later 夂 (foot), suggesting a worried mind and restless movement. The modern form retains the heart 心 under a complex upper shape.
The top part looks like a worried face (with 自 and 冖), and the bottom has 心 (heart) and 夂 (walking). Picture a person walking around with a heavy heart and a sad face: that is melancholy and anxiety.
For ユウ, imagine a sad person saying 'you' with a sigh: 'you' -> ユウ, as if blaming someone for their grief.
depression; melancholy; dejection; gloom; despondency
gloom; sadness; melancholy; despondency; cares; worries
sorrow; grief; anguish; distress
anxiety; concern; fear
alternating between happiness and anxiety; swinging between joy and sorrow; being glad and sad by turns; oscillating between optimism and pessimism
needless fear; groundless apprehension; unfounded worry
patriotic concern for the future of one's country
bitter experience; misery; distress; grief; sad thoughts; hardship
to worry; to be concerned
diversion (from one's worries, troubles, etc.); distraction; amusement
languid; weary; listless; melancholy
lamentation
this transient world
if you are prepared you don't have to worry; it's good to have a shelter against every storm
if you are prepared you don't have to worry; 'tis good to have a shelter against every storm; when one is prepared, difficulties do not come
worrying before one's people worry, enjoying oneself only after one's people have enjoyed themselves (a precept to be observed by a ruler)
internal troubles; domestic discord
troubles both at home and abroad
sharing the same concern
external troubles; foreign threat