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
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: 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
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”).

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 (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

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 (xī).

Pronunciation 3
For pronunciation and definitions of 喜 – see 饎 (“food; to cook; etc.”).
(This character, 喜, is a variant form of 饎.)

Compounds
Derived terms from 喜

Japanese

Kanji
喜

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. rejoice

Readings

Compounds

See also
  • 㐂 (non-standard variant for this character)

Proper noun

喜(よし) • (Yoshi) 

  1. a male given name

Etymology 2
Kanji in this term
喜
き
Grade: 5
on’yomi

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [kʲi]

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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