喜

See also: 憙 and 𠷸

Translingual

Stroke order

Etymology

Ideogrammic compound (會意): 壴 + 口 (“mouth”)

Han character

喜 (radical 30 口+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 土口廿口 (GRTR), four-corner 4060₁, composition ⿱壴口)

1. like, love, enjoy
2. joyful thing

Derived terms

• 禧, 譆, 瞦, 憙, 嘻, 囍, 嚭, 饎, 僖, 歖, 熹, 𢜳

Descendants

• 㐂

References

• KangXi: page 199, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3957
• Dae Jaweon: page 420, character 29
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 649, character 2
• Unihan data for U+559C

See also

• 囍

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Chinese

		-
simp. and trad.		喜

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xǐ (xi³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): hei²
• Min Nan (POJ): hí

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: xǐ
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧˇ
    • Wade-Giles: hsih³
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shii
    • IPA ^(key): /ɕi²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: hei²
    • Yale: héi
    • Cantonese Pinyin: hei²
    • IPA ^(key): /hei̯³⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hí
    • Tâi-lô: hí
    • IPA (Taipei): /hi⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /hi⁵³/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (喜, reconstructed)
Character (喜), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 曉 (32) Final: 之 Division: III			Openness: Open Tone: Rising (X)			Fanqie: 虚里切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/hɨX/	/xiX/	/xiəX/	/hɨX/	/hɨX/	/xĭəX/	/xieX/

Old Chinese pronunciation (喜, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
喜								xǐ								‹ xiX ›								/*qʰ(r)əʔ/								joy; rejoice
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
喜					13416					喜					之					0					喜					/*qʰlɯʔ/

Compounds

• 喜爱
• 喜报
• 喜出望外
• 喜好
• 喜欢、喜歡
• 喜剧、喜劇
• 喜怒无常、喜怒無常
• 喜气洋洋、喜氣洋洋
• 喜庆、喜慶
• 喜鹊
• 喜事
• 喜闻乐见、喜聞樂見
• 喜笑颜开、喜笑顏開
• 喜形于色、喜形於色
• 喜讯
• 喜洋洋
• 喜悦

See also

• 囍

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Japanese

Kanji

喜

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. rejoice

Readings

• Goon: こ (ko)
• Kan’on: き (ki)
• Kun: よろこぶ (yorokobu), よろこび (yorokobi)

Compounds

• 喜劇 (きげき) (kigeki, “comedy”)
• 喜捨 (きしゃ) (kisha)
• 悲喜 (ひき) (hiki, “joys and sorrows”)

See also

• 㐂 (non-standard variant for this character)

Proper noun

喜 (hiragana よし, romaji Yoshi)

1. A male given name

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Korean

Hanja

喜 (hui) (hangeul 희, revised hui, McCune-Reischauer hŭi)

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Vietnamese

Han character

喜 (hỉ, hỷ, hẻ, hởi)

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See also

• nguyên, huyền, tuyền, xuyên, yên

References

• Nom Foundation
• Thiều Chửu : Hán Việt Tự Điển Hà Nội 1942
• Trần Văn Chánh: Từ Điển Hán Việt NXB Trẻ, Ho Chi Minh Ville, 1999
• Vũ Văn Kính: Đại Tự Điển Chữ Nôm, NXB Văn Nghệ, Ho Chi Minh Ville, 1999