# New year pinyin for 樂

**URL:** <https://community.hanzihero.com/t/new-year-pinyin-for/4441>\
**Category:** Chinese Language\
**Created:** [January 29, 2025, 12:42pm UTC](https://community.hanzihero.com/t/new-year-pinyin-for/4441 "2025-01-29T12:42:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![piot](https://community-cdn.hanzihero.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/e36b37/32.png) [@piot](https://community.hanzihero.com/u/piot)\
**Post date:** [January 29, 2025, 12:42pm UTC](https://community.hanzihero.com/t/new-year-pinyin-for/4441/1 "2025-01-29T12:42:38Z")

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I wanted to learn “Happy New Year!” so I have found in dictionary [新年快樂](https://hanzihero.com/traditional/dictionary/%E6%96%B0%E5%B9%B4%E5%BF%AB%E6%A8%82/xin1nian2kuai4le4) pinyin xin1nian2kuai4le4 all characters are in hanzihero but the last one [樂](https://hanzihero.com/traditional/characters/%E6%A8%82) reads like yue4

Why is it like that ?

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**Author:** ![Talgeon](https://community-cdn.hanzihero.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Talgeon](https://community.hanzihero.com/u/Talgeon)\
**Post date:** [January 29, 2025, 1:15pm UTC](https://community.hanzihero.com/t/new-year-pinyin-for/4441/2 "2025-01-29T13:15:12Z")

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Some characters have different pronunciations depending on the meaning. In this case, 樂 can be read as yue4 if it means music and le4 if it means happy. When learning a single character without context using flashcards, you’re kind of forced to take one of the multiple pronunciations and stick with that because there’s no way to distinguish them without context.