享

See also 亨, and 亯

Translingual

Etymology

Complex etymology, connected with and a simplification of several characters. Originally a building on a box – compare 亯; also the origin of 郭; also simplification/regularized variant of 亨.

Han character

享 (radical 8 亠+6, 8 strokes, cangjie input 卜口弓木 (YRND), four-corner 0040₇, composition ⿳亠口子)

1. enjoy

Derived characters

• 郭 孰

References

• KangXi: page 88, character 17
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 298
• Dae Jaweon: page 187, character 10
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 284, character 8
• Unihan data for U+4EAB

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Cantonese

Hanzi

享 (Yale heung2)

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Japanese

Kanji

享 (common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• On: きょう (kyō)
• Kun: すすめる (susumeru), うける (ukeru)

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Korean

Hanja

享 (hangeul 향, revised hyang, McCune-Reischauer hyang)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

享 (pinyin xiǎng (xiang3), Wade-Giles hsiang³)

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Vietnamese

Han character

享 (hưởng)