Chinese Character Wiki
喜

xǐ

like, happy

Depicts making a joyful noise with a drum (喜) and one's mouth (口).

Components
壴 iconic component

壴  Iconic component

zhù

  

drum

口 iconic component

口  Iconic component

kǒu

  

mouth

Evolution

喜 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
喜 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
喜 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
喜 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
喜 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

喜  

xǐ

like, love, enjoy; joyful thing; to be fond of; to like; to enjoy; to be happy; to feel pleased; happiness; delight; glad

Most common words with 喜
Freq.
Word
Meaning

喜欢

to like

喜

to like

恭喜

greetings

惊喜

nice surprise

喜爱

to like

Component uses

Meaning component in 3 characters (0 verified)

禧 嘻 僖

Sound component in 5 characters (0 verified)

嘻 嬉 熹 僖 蟢

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*qʰ(r)əʔ

xiX

xǐ

joy; rejoice


Statistics

HSK level 1

Appears in 95.6591% of movies

155th most common character in movies

668th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Unicode

U+559C

Shuowen

“喜，樂也。从壴，从口。歖，古文喜从欠，與歡同。”


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