乐
樂lào
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Source: Make Me a Hanzi.
乐 is shorthand for 樂, a picture of a stringed instrument with silk over wood. Its first meaning was music. Read lè, the meaning grew to happy and to laugh.
Drawn as: stringed instrument; silk threads over wood
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