開心

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See also: 开心

Chinese

open; operate (vehicle); start heart; mind
trad. (開心) 開 心
simp. (开心) 开 心

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 開 心
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Initial (聲) 溪 (29) 心 (16)
Final (韻) 咍 (41) 侵 (139)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division (等) I III
Fanqie 苦哀切 息林切
Baxter khoj sim
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/kʰʌi/ /siɪm/
Pan
Wuyun 		/kʰəi/ /sim/
Shao
Rongfen 		/kʰɒi/ /sjem/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/kʰəj/ /sim/
Li
Rong 		/kʰᴀi/ /siəm/
Wang
Li 		/kʰɒi/ /sĭĕm/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/kʰɑ̆i/ /si̯əm/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		kāi xīn
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		hoi1 sam1
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 開 心
Reading # 2/2 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		kāi xīn
Middle
Chinese 		‹ khoj › ‹ sim ›
Old
Chinese 		/*ʰˁəj/ /*səm/
English to open (v.t.) heart

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

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * 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 開 心
Reading # 1/1 1/1
No. 7348 13801
Phonetic
component 		開 心
Rime
group 		微 侵
Rime
subdivision 		1 1
Corresponding
MC rime 		開 心
Old
Chinese 		/*kʰɯːl/ /*slɯm/

Adjective

開心

  1. happy; delighted
    我今天過得很開心。 [MSC, trad.]
    我今天过得很开心。 [MSC, simp.]
    Wǒ jīntiān guò de hěn kāixīn.
    I had a great time today.

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Verb

開心

  1. (literary) to open up the mind; to enlighten the mind
  2. to make fun of (someone)
    別拿我尋開心！／别拿我寻开心！  ―  Bié ná wǒ xún kāixīn!  ―  Don't make fun of me!

Synonyms

  • (to make fun of):
Dialectal synonyms of 開玩笑 (“to kid; to joke around”)
Variety Location Words
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 開玩笑
Northeastern Mandarin Beijing 開玩笑, 打哈哈
Taiwan 開玩笑
Singapore 開玩笑
Jilu Mandarin Tianjin 開哏
Jinan 開玩笑, 打哈哈
Central Plains Mandarin Xi'an 開玩笑
Southwestern Mandarin Chengdu 涮罈子
Wuhan 科心, 科德行, 鬥散放
Liuzhou 講笑
Jianghuai Mandarin Nanjing 尋開心
Yangzhou 開心
Hefei 開心, 開玩笑
Cantonese Guangzhou 講笑
Hong Kong 講笑
Dongguan 講笑
Yangjiang 攪笑
Singapore (Guangfu) 講笑
Gan Nanchang 開玩笑
Hakka Meixian 講笑
Huizhou Jixi 講笑, 開玩笑
Jin Taiyuan 耍笑, 開玩笑
Northern Min Jian'ou 𡛴, 𡛴嬉
Eastern Min Fuzhou 講笑, 蠻笑, 做暢
Southern Min Xiamen 滾笑, 講笑, 嘩, 摽, 摽笑
Xiamen (Tong'an) 咧
Quanzhou 滾笑, 講笑, 嘩, 摽, 摽笑
Zhangzhou 滾笑, 講笑, 𠢕滾, 戲謔, 嘩, 摽, 摽笑
Zhangzhou (Changtai) 講摽笑
Taipei (Wanhua) 滾笑
Kaohsiung 耍笑
Yilan 講笑詼
Changhua (Lukang) 講笑
Taichung 講笑
Taichung (Wuqi) 講耍笑
Tainan 滾笑, 滾耍笑, 講耍笑
Taitung 講耍笑
Hsinchu 講笑
Penghu (Magong) 滾笑
Penang (Hokkien) 𠢕滾, 講笑
Singapore (Hokkien) 滾笑, 講笑, 講耍笑, 耍笑
Manila (Hokkien) 摽, 摽笑, 滾笑, 講笑
Chaozhou 呾耍笑
Shantou 呾耍
Shantou (Chenghai) 呾耍
Puning 呾耍笑, 呾相耍, 呾耍
Singapore (Teochew) 呾耍笑, 呾耍, 呾笑
Haikou 講笑
Zhongshan Min Zhongshan (Longdu, Shaxi) 講笑
Wu Shanghai 尋開心, 開玩笑, 打棚, 摟白相, 話白相, 講白相
Shanghai (Chongming) 尋開心
Suzhou 尋開心, 打棚, 摟白相, 捉弄, 弄白相, 講白相, 講張
Hangzhou 尋開心
Ningbo 尋開心
Wenzhou 講笑, 講取笑
Xiang Changsha 鬥霸, 鬥放子, 講笑
Shuangfeng 鬥散放, 打豪

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Vietnamese

chữ Hán Nôm in this term
開心

Verb

開心

  1. chữ Hán form of khai tâm (“to initiate”).
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