興

See also: 兴

Translingual

Han character

興 (Kangxi radical 134, 臼+9, 15 strokes, cangjie input 竹難月金 (HXBC), four-corner 7780₁, composition ⿳⿴𦥑同一八)

Derived characters

• 嬹

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1005, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30226
• Dae Jaweon: page 1461, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 253, character 9
• Unihan data for U+8208

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Chinese

trad.		興
simp.		兴
alternative forms		㒷

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 興
Shang	Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

	Old Chinese
興	*qʰɯŋ, *qʰɯŋs
臖	*qʰɯŋs
嬹	*qʰɯŋs

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 舁 (“to raise”) + 同 (“together”) – to hold up together.

Pronunciation 1

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 興

1. to rise; to get up
2. to thrive; to prosper; to flourish
3. prosperous; flourishing
4. to be popular; to be fashionable

   • 呢排擺酒唔興食魚翅。 [Cantonese, trad.]
     呢排摆酒唔兴食鱼翅。 [Cantonese, simp.]

     nei¹ paai⁴ baai² zau² m⁴ hing¹ sik⁶ jyu⁴ ci³. [Jyutping]

     These days, shark fin soup isn't popular in banquets.

5. to start; to build; to establish
6. to elect; to promote
7. to succeed; to achieve success
8. to send; to dispatch; to launch; to mount
9. to collect; to recruit
10. to do; to perform
11. to advocate; to encourage
12. to indulge; to spoil
13. (dialectal, chiefly in the negative) to allow; to permit
14. maybe; perhaps
15. a surname

Descendants

• → Thai: เฮง (heng) (via Teochew)

Pronunciation 2

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 興

1. excitement; interest; mood in doing something

   高興／高兴  ―  gāoxìng  ―  happy [lit. high mood]

2. sensual desire; sexual desire; passion
3. (obsolete or Min) to like; to be fond of; to love
4. to liken; to analogise
5. (rhetoric) metaphor
6. (poetry) association; speaking first of something else to lead up to the main theme

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Japanese

Kanji

興

(Fifth grade kyōiku kanji)

1. entertain
2. revive
3. retrieve
4. interest
5. pleasure

Noun

興(きょう) • (kyō) 

1. entertainment; pleasure; interest

Readings

• Go-on: こう (kō, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: きょう (kyō, Jōyō)
• Kun: おこる (okoru, 興る, Jōyō); おこす (okosu, 興す, Jōyō); おきる (okiru)

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Korean

Hanja

興 • (heung) (hangeul 흥, revised heung, McCune–Reischauer hŭng, Yale hung)

1. thrive, prosper, flourish

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 興 (hưng, hăng, hên, hứng)

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