enjoy

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
女 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

woman

喜 sound component

  Sound component

  

like, happy

Evolution

嬉 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
嬉 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

enjoy; play, amuse oneself; amusement

Most common words with 嬉
Freq.
Word
Meaning

amusement

嬉戏

fun

嬉皮士

hippie (loanword)

嬉笑

to giggle

嬉皮笑脸

all smiles

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 3.6201% of movies

2610th most common character in movies

3375th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

15

Unicode

U+5B09


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