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amusing / entertaining / (loanword) cola
HSK 3
gaiety / gladness / glee / merriment / pleasure / happy / joyous / gay
HSK 3
happy; joyful
HSK 2
music / CL: 張|张, ,
HSK 2
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  *樂* | 樂* | *樂
happy / cheerful / to laugh
HSK 3
to entertain / to amuse / entertainment / recreation / amusement / hobby / fun / joy
HSK 6
lit. happiness, anger, sorrow, and joy (idiom) / fig. emotions
HSK 7-9
lit. to eat, drink, play and be merry (idiom) / fig. to abandon oneself to a life of pleasure
HSK 7-9
to abandon restraint and have a fling (idiom)
woodwind music
Coca-Cola
philharmonic (used in names of orchestras) / to love music (used in compounds like 愛樂者|爱乐者 "music enthusiast")
classical music
country music (country & western music genre)
to find amusement / to amuse oneself
Merry Christmas
joy
Happy birthday
peace and happiness
Gatorade (brand)
to be the first to worry about affairs of state, and the last to enjoy oneself (quotation from the essay On Yueyang Tower 岳陽樓記|岳阳楼记 by Song writer Fan Zhongyan 范仲淹)
Bhangra, Indian music (music genre)
rock music / rock 'n roll
to enjoy the present (idiom); to live happily with no thought for the future / make merry while you can / carpe diem
to enjoy life / pleasures of life
pop music
classical music (mainly Western)
symphony
HSK 7-9
Happy New Year!
Pepsi
Xerox
chamber music
peace and happiness / feasting / making merry
to find joy in sorrows (idiom); to enjoy sth in spite of one's suffering
modern music / contemporary music
string music
(Confucianism) rites and music (the means of regulating society)
background music (BGM) / soundtrack / musical setting
guava (loanword from Taiwanese)
peace and happiness (old) / healthy and happy / recreation
Changle county in Weifang 濰坊|潍坊, Shandong
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  *樂* | 樂* | *樂
surname Le
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  *樂* | 樂* | *樂
surname Yue
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *樂* | 樂* | *樂
used in place names
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *樂* | 樂* | *樂
music
jazz (loanword)
instrumental music
national music / Chinese traditional music
to perform music / to play a tune
satisfied with what one has (idiom)
light music
Diet Coke / Coca-Cola Light
family love and joy / domestic bliss
to entertain oneself
doing good deeds brings the greatest joy (idiom)
to find amusement in one's own way / to enjoy oneself quietly
to amuse oneself / to clown around / to provoke laughter
pleasure-seeking
see 長樂區|长乐区 / Princess Changle of Western Wei of the Northern Dynasties 西魏, given in marriage c. 545 to Bumin Khan 土門|土门
(calque of "tittytainment") low-brow entertainment that distracts the poor from their circumstances; mindless entertainment
disappointed and unhappy / dispirited
Twister (game)
jazz (loanword)
pleasure from helping others (idiom)
funeral music / plaint / dirge
to play around / to disport oneself
(loanword) baccarat
(Tw) (abbr. for 教育與娛樂|教育与娱乐) education and entertainment, the 5th and 6th aspects of life beyond the four basic necessities of food, clothing, shelter and transportation 食衣住行 / (sometimes used to signify edutainment or just recreation)
Jingle county in Xinzhou 忻州, Shanxi
formal ceremonial music of each succeeding Chinese dynasty starting with the Zhou / Korean a'ak / Japanese gagaku
drinking party / to go on a binge / to paint the town red
harmonious and happy
scratch-and-win lottery
Merlot (grape type)
rap music
pleasure seeking (idiom); life of dissipation
folk music, esp. for traditional instruments
to make merry
Charles De Gaulle (1890–1970), French general and politician, leader of the Free French during World War II and president of the Republic 1959–1969
folk music
to create music for a movie or stage production / to dub music onto a soundtrack / incidental music / soundtrack music
depressed / sulky / moody / unhappy
free jazz (music genre)
Maspero (name)
Bole (a man who lived during Spring and Autumn Period, reputed to be able to spot a good horse) / a person who is good at spotting talent
(loanword) doula
to thrive in calamity and perish in soft living (idiom) / life springs from sorrow and calamity, death comes from ease and pleasure
to amuse oneself / recreation
plucked string music
orchestral music
vocal music
to play / to amuse oneself
to abandon suffering and obtain happiness (Buddhism)
vice / degenerate pleasures

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