由
Readings
                Kana: 
                ユ、ユウ、ユイ、よし、よ.る
            
                    
                Romaji: 
                yu, yuu, yui, yoshi, yo.ru
            
            Meanings
        wherefore, a reason
    
Stroke Diagram
Kanji Info
            Stroke Count: 
            5
        
        
            Radical Number: 
            2
        
        
            Frequency: 
            325
        
        
            Grade: 
            3
        
        
            Skip Pattern: 
            4-5-2
        
                    
                Korean Reading: 
                yu
            
                            
                Chinese Reading: 
                you2
            
                
            Unicode: 
            7531
        
        
            JIS: 
            4D33
        
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                                                                Tuttle Kanji Cards Index: 261
                                    Words
            
                由
            
            
                (よし)
            
        
        
            reason; significance; cause; piece of information that one has heard; I hear that ...; it is said that ...
        
    
            
                自由
            
            
                (じゆう)
            
        
        
            freedom; liberty; as it pleases you
        
    
            
                経由
            
            
                (けいゆ、けいゆう)
            
        
        
            through; by way of; via; to go via; to go by way of
        
    
            
                自由党
            
            
                (じゆうとう)
            
        
        
            Liberal Party
        
    
            
                不自由
            
            
                (ふじゆう)
            
        
        
            discomfort; inconvenience; poverty; want; destitution; disability; impairment (physical, mental, etc.)