Wiktionary

喜

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

Translingual edit

Stroke order
 

Han character edit

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

Derived characters edit

Descendants edit

References edit

  • 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 edit

simp. and trad.
 喜
2nd round simp. ⿳士䒑口
alternative forms 憙 to enjoy

Glyph origin edit

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 edit

  • 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 (Min Nan) /hi⁵³/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /hi³²/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /xi²¹/
Shantou (Min Nan) /hi⁵³/
Haikou (Min Nan) /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. *[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/

Definitions edit

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 edit

Definitions edit

喜

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

Pronunciation 3 edit

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

Compounds edit

Japanese edit

Kanji edit

喜

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. rejoice

Readings edit

Compounds edit

See also edit

  • 㐂 (non-standard variant for this character)

Etymology 1 edit

Proper noun edit

喜(よし) • (Yoshi) 

  1. a male given name

Etymology 2 edit

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

Pronunciation edit

Affix edit

喜(き) • (ki) 

  1. joy; delight; pleasure

Korean edit

Hanja edit

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

  1. happiness, enjoyment

Compounds edit

Vietnamese edit

Han character edit

喜: Hán Nôm readings: hỉ, hỷ, hẻ, hởi

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References edit

  • 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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