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欢

huān

happy

Simplified form of 歡. Phonosemantic compound. 欠 represents the meaning and 雚 represents the sound. 欠 (yawn) is a pictograph of a person with an open mouth, used here to represent a person joyfully laughing.

Components
又 simplified component

又  Simplified component

yòu

  

(hand), again

Shorthand for the 雚 component in the traditional character 歡.

欠 iconic component

欠  Iconic component

qiàn

  

yawn, deficient

Depicts a person opening their mouth to laugh.

Evolution

欢 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
欢 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
欢 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
欢 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

欢 (歡) 

huān

happy, pleased, glad; joy; to enjoy; joyous; happy; pleased

欢 (懽) 

huān

variant of 歡|欢[huān]

欢 (讙) 

huān

hubbub; clamor

欢 (驩) 

huān

a breed of horse

Most common words with 欢
Freq.
Word
Meaning

喜欢

to like

欢迎

to welcome

欢乐

gaiety

欢

joyous

狂欢

party

Statistics

HSK level 1

Appears in 96.4921% of movies

148th most common character in movies

685th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

6

Traditional

歡

Unicode

U+6B22


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