尤
尤: reasonable
reasonable; indeed; natural
4 strokesNames & literary · Name kanji (準1級 range)in 4 words here
Readings
On
ユウ
Kunもっとも・とがめる
Almost always read もっとも (尤も is often written in kana); ユウ appears in the statistics term 尤度 (likelihood).
Key words
尤ももっともindeed; natural; however
尤もらしいもっともらしいplausible; seemingly reasonable
ご尤もごもっともquite right (polite)
尤度ゆうどlikelihood (statistics)
Example sentences
彼が怒るのも尤もだと思う。
I think it's only natural that he is angry.
彼は尤もらしい顔で嘘をついた。
He told a lie with a plausible straight face.
統計では、データの当てはまりのよさを尤度で表す。
In statistics, how well a model fits the data is expressed by likelihood.