楽 – Kanji World

音読おんよみ: ガク・ラク

訓読くんよみ: たのしい・たのしむ

画数かくすう: 13

部首ぶしゅ: 木（き）

Meaning

Joy / Ease / Music

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Basic forms
楽しむ — to enjoy / base form
楽しみます — enjoy / masu form
楽しんだ — enjoyed / ta form
楽しんで — enjoy and … / te-form
楽しまない — don’t enjoy / negative
楽しめば — if (you) enjoy / conditional
Other forms
楽しみたい — want to enjoy
楽しめる — can enjoy
楽しもう — let’s enjoy

楽しむ（たのしむ）is a godan verb ending in む.
The stem shifts む → み → ん (楽しむ → 楽しみます → 楽しんで).

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音楽おんがく — music
楽たのしい — fun / enjoyable
楽たのしむ — to enjoy
娯楽ごらく — entertainment
楽器がっき — musical instrument
気楽きらく — carefree

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楽 originally depicted a musical instrument with strings, linking sound and enjoyment.

From music, its meaning expanded to include pleasure, ease, and emotional lightness in everyday life.

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