嗨

嗨 U+55E8, 嗨 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-55E8 ← 嗧 [U+55E7] CJK Unified Ideographs 嗩 → [U+55E9]

Translingual

Han character

嗨 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 口水人卜 (REOY), four-corner 6805₇, composition ⿰口海)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 204, character 11
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 4137
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 671, character 3
• Unihan data for U+55E8

Chinese

simp. and trad.		嗨

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声): semantic 口 (“mouth; speech”) + phonetic 海 (OC *hmlɯːʔ)

Etymology

The first sense is from English hi, the second sense is from English high.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): hāi (hai¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄞ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): haai¹, hei¹, hoi¹
• Min Nan

  (Hokkien, POJ): hài

  (Teochew, Peng'im): hai² / hai¹

• Wu (Wugniu)
  • (Shanghainese): ⁰he

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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: haai¹, hei¹, hoi¹
    • Yale: hāai, hēi, hōi
    • Cantonese Pinyin: haai¹, hei¹, hoi¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: hai¹, héi¹, hoi¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /haːi̯⁵⁵/, /hei̯⁵⁵/, /hɔːi̯⁵⁵/

Note:

• haai1 - colloquial;
• hei, hoi1 - variant.

Min Nan

• (Hokkien)
  • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hài
  • Tâi-lô: hài
  • Phofsit Daibuun: haix
  • IPA (Xiamen): /hai²¹/
  • IPA (Quanzhou): /hai⁴¹/
  • IPA (Zhangzhou): /hai²¹/
  • IPA (Taipei): /hai¹¹/
  • IPA (Kaohsiung): /hai²¹/
• (Teochew)
  • Peng'im: hai² / hai¹
  • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: hái / hai
  • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hai⁵²/, /hai³³/

Wu

• (Shanghainese)
  • Wugniu: ⁰he
  • Wiktionary Romanisation: ⁰he
  • Sinological IPA ^(key): /he̞/

Definitions

嗨

1. (colloquial) hey; hi
2. (colloquial) high; to be exhilarated (may or may not be under the influence of alcohol or recreational drugs)

   一齊嗨／一齐嗨 [Guangzhou Cantonese]  ―  jat¹ cai⁴ hei¹ [Jyutping]  ―  all have fun together

3. Alternative form of 咳 (hāi, “sound of lament”)

Compounds

• 嗨喲／嗨哟 (hāiyō)
• 土嗨 (tǔhāi)

 

References

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A00646
• “嗨”, 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

嗨

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: かい (kai)
• Kan-on: かい (kai)
• Tō-on: はい (hai)