乐趣
lèqù · HSK 4
fun
🎉 乐 = music/joy + 趣 = interest; literally joy-interest = fun
乐 (lè) carries the sense of joy or music, and 趣 (qù) means interest or flavor. Together, joy + interest gives the meaning of amusement or fun — the pleasure you take in something engaging.
乐 — stylized depiction of a wooden instrument with strings
Originally a pictograph of a wooden frame holding strings or bells, representing a musical instrument. The character first meant 'music' (read yuè), and by extension came to mean 'joy, happiness' (read lè), since music brings pleasure. The simplified form 乐 streamlines the older 樂.