kǎi
enjoy
Phonosemantic compound. 忄 represents the meaning and 豈 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
Clerical script
Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 愷
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
joyful | ||
Caesar (name) | ||
Gu Kaizhi or Ku K'aichih (346-407), famous painter of Eastern Jin dynasty, one of the Four Great Painters of the Six Dynasties 六朝四大家 |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*C.qʰˤəjʔ | khojX | kǎi | triumphal music; happy |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 0.6728% of movies
2705th most common character in movies
3432nd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 13 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+6137 |
Shuowen | “愷，樂也。从心，豈聲。” |
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