喜

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See also: 憙, 𠷸, 횸, and 🉣
喜 U+559C, 喜
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-559C
← 喛
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 喝 →

Translingual

Stroke order
12 strokes

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

Descendants

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

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 (“drum”) + 口 (“mouth”).

Duplicated character: 囍.

Pronunciation 1

  • Dialectal data
Variety Location 喜
Mandarin Beijing /ɕi²¹⁴/
Harbin /ɕi²¹³/
Tianjin /ɕi¹³/
Jinan /ɕi⁵⁵/
Qingdao /ɕi⁵⁵/
Zhengzhou /ɕi⁵³/
Xi'an /ɕi⁵³/
Xining /ɕji⁵³/
Yinchuan /ɕi⁵³/
Lanzhou /ɕi⁴⁴²/
Ürümqi /ɕi⁵¹/
Wuhan /ɕi⁴²/
Chengdu /ɕi⁵³/
Guiyang /ɕi⁴²/
Kunming /ɕi⁵³/
Nanjing /ɕi²¹²/
Hefei /sz̩²¹/
Jin Taiyuan /ɕi⁵³/
Pingyao /ɕi⁵³/
Hohhot /ɕi⁵³/
Wu Shanghai /ɕi³⁵/
Suzhou /ɕi⁵¹/
Hangzhou /ɕi⁵³/
Wenzhou /sz̩³⁵/
Hui Shexian /ɕi³⁵/
Tunxi /ɕi³¹/
Xiang Changsha /ɕi⁴¹/
Xiangtan /ɕi⁴²/
Gan Nanchang /ɕi²¹³/
Hakka Meixian /hi³¹/
Taoyuan /hi³¹/
Cantonese Guangzhou /hei³⁵/
Nanning /hi³⁵/
Hong Kong /hei³⁵/
Min Xiamen (Hokkien) /hi⁵³/
Fuzhou (Eastern Min) /hi³²/
Jian'ou (Northern Min) /xi²¹/
Shantou (Teochew) /hi⁵³/
Haikou (Hainanese) /hi²¹³/
Rime
Character 喜
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 曉 (32)
Final (韻) 之 (19)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 虚里切
Baxter xiX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/hɨX/
Pan
Wuyun 		/hɨX/
Shao
Rongfen 		/xieX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/hɨX/
Li
Rong 		/xiəX/
Wang
Li 		/xĭəX/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/xiX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		xǐ
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		hei2
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. * 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/

Definitions

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

Pronunciation 2

Definitions

喜

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

Pronunciation 3

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

Compounds

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

See also

  • 㐂 (non-standard variant for this character)

Etymology 1

Proper noun

喜(よし) • (Yoshi) 

  1. a male given name

Etymology 2

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

Pronunciation

Affix

喜(き) • (ki) 

  1. joy; delight; pleasure

Korean

Hanja

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

  1. happiness, enjoyment

Compounds

Vietnamese

Han character

喜: Hán Nôm readings: hỉ, hỷ, hẻ, hởi

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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
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