漢字Kanji · in Human Body & People
喜: rejoice, take pleasure in
JLPT N312 strokesGrade 5Your ink: 白 Not met
口 carries the meaning · 吉 is drawn in
12 strokes
Oracle bone · Shang Bronze · Spring and Autumn Today
Oracle bone and bronze: Wikimedia Commons, traced from Academia Sinica, CC0. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Three readings, and the words that use each
キki · on'yomi · in compounds
- 歓喜するかんきするrejoice
- 喜劇きげきcomedy
- 一喜一憂いっきいちゆうmixed blessings
- 歓喜かんき
よろこぶyorokobu · kun'yomi · on its own
- 喜ぶよろこぶbe delighted [v.i.]
- 喜びよろこびjoy; delight; rapture
- 喜んでよろこんでwith pleasure; gladly; willingly
よろこばすyorokobasu · kun'yomi
- 喜ばすよろこばすgive pleasure, please [v.t.]
Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0 · JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Open your mouth wide and what do you see? A simple, sturdy square!”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
吉
Also built on good luck (吉)
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by side喜 rejoice · 口
vs詰 packed · 言In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · xǐ
Same form: 喜 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 喜 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 喜 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin xǐ most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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