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喜

喜

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

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

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

  1. like, love, enjoy
  2. joyful thing

Derived terms

Descendants

References

  • KangXi: page 199, character 5
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3957
  • Dae Jaweon: page 420, character 29
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 649, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+559C

See also

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 喜

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

Ideogrammic compound (會意) : 壴 + 口 ‎(“mouth”).

Pronunciation

  • 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
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
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

喜

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Compounds

See also

Japanese

Kanji

喜

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. rejoice

Readings

Compounds

See also

  • 㐂 (non-standard variant for this character)

Proper noun

喜 ‎(hiragana よし, romaji Yoshi)

  1. A male given name

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

喜 (hỉ, hỷ, hẻ, hởi)

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See also

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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