咍

咍 U+548D, 咍 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-548D ← 和 [U+548C] CJK Unified Ideographs 咎 → [U+548E]

Translingual

Han character

咍 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+5, 8 strokes, Cangjie input 口戈口 (RIR), four-corner 6306₀, composition ⿰口台)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 185, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3492
• Dae Jaweon: page 404, character 5
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 610, character 7
• Unihan data for U+548D

Chinese

simp. and trad.		咍

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (台) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
胎	*l̥ʰɯː
台	*l̥ʰɯː, *l'ɯː, *l'ɯː, *lɯ
邰	*l̥ʰɯː
鮐	*l̥ʰɯː, *lɯ
孡	*l̥ʰɯː
苔	*l'ɯː
抬	*l'ɯː
駘	*l'ɯː, *l'ɯːʔ
炱	*l'ɯː
菭	*l'ɯː, *l'i
跆	*l'ɯː
殆	*l'ɯːʔ
怠	*l'ɯːʔ
迨	*l'ɯːʔ
紿	*l'ɯːʔ
詒	*l'ɯːʔ, *lɯ
軩	*l'ɯːʔ
咍	*hlɯː
佁	*lɯːʔ, *l̥ʰɯs, *lɯʔ
枲	*slɯʔ
辝	*ljɯ
鈶	*ljɯʔ
笞	*l̥ʰɯ
齝	*l̥ʰɯ, *hljɯ
眙	*l̥ʰɯs, *lɯ
治	*l'ɯ, *l'ɯs, *l'is
始	*hljɯʔ
怡	*lɯ
貽	*lɯ
飴	*lɯ
瓵	*lɯ
珆	*li

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *hlɯː): semantic 口 (“mouth; speech”) + phonetic 台 (OC *l̥ʰɯː, *l'ɯː, *l'ɯː, *lɯ)

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): hāi (hai¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄞ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): hoi¹ / haai¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: hāi
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄞ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: hai
    • Wade–Giles: hai¹
    • Yale: hāi
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: hai
    • Palladius: хай (xaj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xaɪ̯⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: hoi¹ / haai¹
    • Yale: hōi / hāai
    • Cantonese Pinyin: hoi¹ / haai¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: hoi¹ / hai¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hɔːi̯⁵⁵/, /haːi̯⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: xoj

Rime
Character	咍
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	曉 (32)
Final (韻)	咍 (41)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	呼來切
Baxter	xoj
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/hʌi/
Pan Wuyun	/həi/
Shao Rongfen	/xɒi/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/həj/
Li Rong	/xᴀi/
Wang Li	/xɒi/
Bernhard Karlgren	/xɑ̆i/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	hāi
Expected Cantonese Reflex	hoi1

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*hlɯː/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	咍
Reading #	1/1
No.	12279
Phonetic component	台
Rime group	之
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	咍
Old Chinese	/*hlɯː/
Notes	見九章

Definitions

咍

1. sound of laughter
2. happy; joyful
3. (alt. form 嗨, 咳) sound of lament

Compounds

• 咍咍
• 咍樂 / 咍乐
• 咍臺 / 咍台

References

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), B00308
• “咍”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Japanese

Kanji

咍

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• Kan-on: かい (kai)
• Kan’yō-on: たい (tai)
• Kun: わらう (warau, 咍う)^{←わらふ (warafu, 咍ふ, historical)}、よろこぶ (yorokobu, 咍ぶ)

Korean

Hanja

咍 • (hae) (hangeul 해, revised hae, McCune–Reischauer hae)

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Vietnamese

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声): semantic 口 (“mouth”) + phonetic 台 (thai).

Han character

咍: Nôm readings: hay, thay, hai, hây

1. chữ Nôm form of hai (“two”)
   • Phật thuyết đại báo phụ mẫu ân trọng kinh (佛說大報父母恩重經), folio 14a

     咍布朱奴所対渴，咍思奥支愈列。

     Hai vú cho no thửa đói khát, hai tay áo che gió rét.

     [Her] two breasts satisfy his hunger and thirst; [her] two sleeves protect [him] from the wind and cold.

2. chữ Nôm form of hay
   1. (archaic or literary) to know; to get to know; to learn
      • 15th century, Nguyễn Trãi, “歸崑山重九偶作 Quy côn sơn trùng cửu ngẫu tác”, in Quốc âm thi tập (國音詩集):

        𣈜恪咍兠群役恪
        節冷馬女底朱戈

        Ngày khác hay đâu còn việc khác,
        Tiết lành mựa nỡ để cho qua.

        Who knows on a different day if I would be busy or not,
        [So] I would rather not miss out on this nice weather [right now].

   2. (obsolete, auxiliary) can, could, may, might
      • Phật thuyết đại báo phụ mẫu ân trọng kinh (佛說大報父母恩重經), folio 35a

        合咍㝵𱍸咍把特恩盎那。

        Hợp hay người ấy hay trả được ơn áng nạ.

        Certainly, [one will] know that such a person can repay their parents' kindness.

   3. good, as in useful, inventive, interesting or entertaining; well
   4. often, habitually
   5. or
3. chữ Nôm form of thay (“particle used as a modifier to indicate surprise”)