咍

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

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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/
Bernard 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

(deprecated template usage) 咍

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

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–

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Japanese

Kanji

咍

(uncommon “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)

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 咍 (hay, thay)

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References

• Nom Foundation