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See also: 憙, 𠷸, 횸, and 🉣

Stroke order
12 strokes

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

  • 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
simp. and trad.
 喜
2nd round simp. ⿳士䒑口
alternative forms 憙 to enjoy
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 (“drum”) + 口 (“mouth”). It represents joy through playing the drum and singing cheerfully.

Duplicated character: 囍.

  • Dialectal data
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 喜
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		xǐ
Middle
Chinese 		‹ xiX ›
Old
Chinese 		/*qʰ(r)əʔ/
English joy; rejoice

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 喜
Reading # 1/1
No. 13416
Phonetic
component 		喜
Rime
group 		之
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		喜
Old
Chinese 		/*qʰlɯʔ/

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

喜

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

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

喜

(Fifth grade kyōiku kanji)

  1. rejoice
  • 㐂 (non-standard variant for this character)

喜(よし) • (Yoshi) 

  1. a male given name
Kanji in this term
喜
き
Grade: 5
on'yomi

喜(き) • (ki) 

  1. joy; delight; pleasure

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

  1. happiness, enjoyment

喜: Hán Nôm readings: hỉ, hỷ, hẻ, hởi

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  • 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

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