tenderness, excel, surpass, actor, superiority, gentleness
優 centers on a person who stands out through a combination of skill and kindness: excelling or surpassing others, while also embodying tenderness and gentleness. The actor sense is a natural extension of someone who performs with superior grace.
優 combines the person radical 亻 with 憂, which historically contributed the sound and carried a sense of abundance or overflowing, leading to the idea of surpassing excellence and gentle generosity.
A person 亻 with an overflowing heart 憂: imagine someone whose kindness and skill are so abundant that they naturally excel and treat others with tenderness, like a gentle actor who outshines the rest.
For ユウ, picture a gentle actor named Hugh who always excels in his roles: Hugh -> ユウ, and his superior performance is full of tenderness.
tender; kind; gentle; graceful; affectionate; amiable
overall victory; championship; winning the title
actress; female actor
preference; priority; precedence; right of way
superior; excellent; brilliant; outstanding
to be better (than); to be superior; to surpass; to excel; to be excellent
actor; actress; player; performer
predominance; superiority; ascendancy; advantage; supremacy
(male) actor
superior; excellent; fine
favorable treatment; favourable treatment; hospitality; warm reception; good treatment; hearty welcome
superiority; superior power; predominance; preponderance
elegant; graceful; refined
honor student; honours student; model student; prize pupil
grace; refinement; elegance; daintiness
(relative) merits; superiority or inferiority; quality
indecisive; irresolute; shilly-shally; vacillating
great actor; famous actor; star
preferential
superiority complex; sense of superiority
most favourable treatment; most favorable treatment; very warm reception