戲

戲 (Kangxi radical 62, 戈+13, 17 strokes, cangjie input 卜廿戈 (YTI), four-corner 2325₀, composition ⿰䖒戈)

• 嚱, 㚀, 巇, 𢹍, 𤃪, 㺣, 隵, 𣟵, 㸍, 𧕆, 𫍔, 𧲘, 𣤴, 𭗲, 𢋼, 𬑁

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 414, character 23
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11681
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1413, character 13
• Unihan data for U+6232

Historical forms of the character 戲
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *qʰral, *qʰrals, *qʰaː): phonetic 䖒 (xī) + semantic 戈 (“halberd”), originally referring to the wing or flank of an army.

Cognate with 嘕 (OC *qʰran, “to laugh”), Tibetan ཀྱལ་ཀ (kyal ka, “joke; jest; trick”), Mizo khâl (“to play with”), Mizo inkhêl (“to gamble; to play”) (Schuessler, 2007).

戲

1. to play; to amuse; to have fun

   玄德幼時，與鄉中小兒戲於樹下。 [Written Vernacular Chinese, trad.]
   玄德幼时，与乡中小儿戏于树下。 [Written Vernacular Chinese, simp.]

   From: Romance of the Three Kingdoms, circa 14^th century CE

   Xuándé yòu shí, yǔ xiāng zhōng xiǎo'ér xì yú shù xià.

   When Liu Bei was young, he played with the children of the village under a tree.

2. to tease; to chaff

   他不喜歡被人戲弄，覺得這樣很不尊重。 [MSC, trad.]
   他不喜欢被人戏弄，觉得这样很不尊重。 [MSC, simp.]

   Tā bù xǐhuān bèi rén xìnòng, jiào dé zhèyàng hěn bù zūnzhòng.

   He doesn't like to be teased by others, as he considers it disrespectful.

3. theatrical play; show; theater; opera (Classifier: 齣／出; 部 m)

   Synonym: 劇 / 剧

4. (dialectal, Penang Hokkien) movie; film (Classifier: 齣／出 c; 套 c)
5. (Cantonese) scene (Classifier: 場／场 c)
6. (figurative) interesting part; hope
7. (Penang Hokkien) program, programme: a performance of a show or other broadcast on radio or television.

• → Guiqiong: ɕi

戲

1. Alternative form of 呼 (“to shout”), used in 於戲／於戏 (wūhū).

戲

1. Alternative form of 羲 (xī), used in 伏戲／伏戏.
2. (obsolete) slanting; steep
3. Used in place names.

戲

1. Only used in 戲氏阪／戏氏阪.

• “戲”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 , editor (2022), “戏”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 254.

(Jinmeiyō kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 戯)

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• Go-on: け (ke)
• Kan-on: き (ki)
• Kan’yō-on: ぎ (gi)、げ (ge)
• Kun: たわむれる (tawamureru, 戲れる)^{←たはむれる (tafamureru, 戲れる, historical)}

• 戱 (희 (hui))

This form "戲" is the orthodox form according to the "Table of hanja for personal names" and many Hanja authorities in South Korea including the National Institute of Korean Language, and the alternative form "戱" is recognized as an official variant form (속자 (俗字, sokja)) by the "Table of hanja for personal names." However, "戱" is far more common in actual usage.

Some Korean dictionaries only include "戱" when glossing words containing this Hanja.

From Middle Chinese 戲 (MC xjeH). Recorded as Middle Korean 희〯 (hǔy) (Yale: hǔy) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key):
• Phonetic hangul:

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

戲

Wikisource

戲 (eumhun 놀이 희 (nori hui))
戲 (eumhun 희롱할 희 (huironghal hui))

1. hanja form^? of 희 (“play”)

Related to Middle Chinese 呼 (MC xu).

戲 (eumhun 서러울 호 (seoreoul ho))
戲 (eumhun 탄식할 호 (tansikhal ho))

1. (literary Chinese) Alternative form of 呼 (“hanja form^? of 호 (“shout; sigh”)”)

Related to Middle Chinese 麾 (MC xjwe).

戲 (eumhun 기 휘 (gi hwi))

1. (literary Chinese) Alternative form of 麾 (“hanja form^? of 휘 (“banner”)”)

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典.
• Supreme Court of the Republic of Korea (대한민국 대법원, Daehanmin'guk Daebeobwon) (2018). Table of hanja for personal names (인명용 한자표 / 人名用漢字表, Inmyeong-yong hanja-pyo), page 54.

戲: Hán Nôm readings: hí, hé, hi, hô

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