禧

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禧 U+79A7, 禧
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-79A7
← 禦
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 禨 →

Translingual

Han character

禧 (Kangxi radical 113, 示+12, 17 strokes, cangjie input 戈火土口口 (IFGRR), four-corner 34265, composition ⿰礻喜)

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 846, character 30
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 24828
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1267, character 20
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2408, character 8
  • Unihan data for U+79A7

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 禧
alternative forms 釐

Glyph origin

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

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *qʰlɯ, *qʰlɯʔ) : semantic 示 + phonetic 喜 (OC *qʰlɯʔ).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 禧
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 曉 (32)
Final (韻) 之 (19)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 許其切
Baxter xi
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/hɨ/
Pan
Wuyun 		/hɨ/
Shao
Rongfen 		/xie/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/hɨ/
Li
Rong 		/xiə/
Wang
Li 		/xĭə/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/xi/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		xī
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		hei1
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 禧 禧
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 13410 13417
Phonetic
component 		喜 喜
Rime
group 		之 之
Rime
subdivision 		0 0
Corresponding
MC rime 		僖 喜
Old
Chinese 		/*qʰlɯ/ /*qʰlɯʔ/

Definitions

禧

  1. favourable luck; good fortune; auspiciousness; blessings

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

禧

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

  • On (unclassified): き (ki)
  • Kun: さいわい (saiwai)
  • Nanori: ひさし (hisashi)、よし (yoshi)

Korean

Hanja

禧 • (hui) (hangeul 희, revised hui, McCune–Reischauer hŭi, Yale huy)

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