xǐ
happiness
Celebrating 喜 good fortune 礻; 壴 also provides the pronunciation
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Seal script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 禧
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
Empress Dowager Cixi or Ts'u Hsi (reigned 1861-1908) | ||
joy | ||
Bai Chongxi (1893-1966), a leader of Guangxi warlord faction, top Nationalist general, played important role in Chiang Kaishek's campaigns 1926-1949 | ||
Happy New Year! | ||
Happy New Year |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
2085th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 16 |
Unicode | U+79A7 |
Shuowen | “禧，禮吉也。从示，喜聲。” |
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