喜

See also: 憙, 𠷸, 횸, and 🉣

喜 U+559C, 喜 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-559C ← 喛 [U+559B] CJK Unified Ideographs 喝 → [U+559D]

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

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

Derived characters

• 僖, 嘻, 嬉, 㝆, 憘, 㵙, 暿, 橲, 熺, 禧, 瞦, 礂, 糦, 繥, 蟢, 譆, 𨭎, 饎, 鱚, 囏, 䵱, 囍
• 敼, 歖, 噽, 嚭
• 憙, 熹, 𢜳

Descendants

• 㐂
• 𛀣

References

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

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		喜
2nd round simp.		⿳士䒑口
alternative forms		憙 to enjoy

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 喜
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 (喜) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
嘻	*qʰɯ
嬉	*qʰlɯ, *qʰlɯs
禧	*qʰlɯ, *qʰlɯʔ
熹	*qʰlɯ
僖	*qʰlɯ
歖	*qʰlɯ
譆	*qʰlɯ
瞦	*qʰlɯ
喜	*qʰlɯʔ
憙	*qʰlɯʔ, *qʰlɯs
蟢	*qʰlɯʔ
糦	*kʰljɯs
饎	*kʰljɯs

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

Duplicated character: 囍.

Pronunciation 1

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 喜

1. happy; pleased; joyful

   喜迎  ―  xǐ yíng  ―  to welcome happily

   喜出望外  ―  xǐchūwàngwài  ―  to be pleasantly surprised

2. joyful; worth celebrating

   喜訊／喜讯  ―  xǐxùn  ―  happy news

   喜筵  ―  xǐyán  ―  banquet for a happy event (typically a wedding feast)

3. joyful thing; happy event

   報喜／报喜  ―  bàoxǐ  ―  to announce good news

4. pregnancy

   有喜  ―  yǒuxǐ  ―  to be pregnant

   害喜  ―  hàixǐ  ―  to have morning sickness

5. (dated, euphemistic) variola; smallpox
6. to be fond of; to like; to love; to enjoy
7. (of an organism) to need; to require

   喜光植物  ―  xǐ guāng zhíwù  ―  photophilous plant

   • 仙人掌喜充足陽光，耐旱不耐寒，喜排水良好的砂質壤土。 [MSC, trad.]
     仙人掌喜充足阳光，耐旱不耐寒，喜排水良好的砂质壤土。 [MSC, simp.]

     From: 彭光途, 陆家怡, 梅慧敏 (1987) 花卉栽培技术, Beijing: 中国林业出版社, →ISBN, page 177

     Xiānrénzhǎng xǐ chōngzú yángguāng, nàihàn bù nàihán, xǐ páishuǐ liánghǎo de shā zhì rǎngtǔ. [Pinyin]

     (please add an English translation of this usage example)

8. (literary) to be prone to
9. a surname

Pronunciation 2

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xī (xi¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xī
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: si
    • Wade–Giles: hsi¹
    • Yale: syī
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shi
    • Palladius: си (si)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi⁵⁵/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 喜

1. Original form of 嬉 (xī).
2. (deprecated template usage) Alternative form of 熙 (xī).

Pronunciation 3

For pronunciation and definitions of 喜 – see 饎 (“food; to cook”). (This character is a variant form of 饎).

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Japanese

Kanji

喜

(Fifth grade kyōiku kanji)

1. rejoice

Readings

• Go-on: こ (ko)
• Kan-on: き (ki, Jōyō)
• Kun: よろこぶ (yorokobu, 喜ぶ, Jōyō)、よろこび (yorokobi, 喜び)

Compounds

• 喜(き)劇(げき) (kigeki, “comedy”)
• 喜(き)捨(しゃ) (kisha)
• 悲(ひ)喜(き) (hiki, “joys and sorrows”)

See also

• 㐂 (non-standard variant for this character)

Etymology 1

Proper noun

喜(よし) or 喜(proper) • (yoshi or proper) [[Category:Japanese
|よし]]

1. a male given name

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
喜
き Grade: 5
on'yomi

Affix

喜(き) • (ki) 

1. joy; delight; pleasure

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Korean

Hanja

喜 • (hui) (hangeul 희, revised hui, McCune–Reischauer hŭi)

1. happiness, enjoyment

Compounds

• 희극 (喜劇, huigeuk)

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Vietnamese

Han character

喜: Hán Nôm readings: hỉ, hỷ, hẻ, hởi

1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

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