喜
喜 — hui
Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).
- Korean reading
- 기쁠 희
- Romanization
- hui
- English
- like, love, enjoy; joyful thing
- Mandarin
- xǐ
- Japanese on'yomi
- キ, シ
- Japanese kun'yomi
- よろこ.ぶ よろこ.ばす
- Japanese usage
- Jōyō kanji
- School grade
- Grade 5
- Newspaper frequency
- #769 of 2,500
- Strokes
- 12
- Radical
- 口 (30, 9 residual)
- Unicode
- U+559C
How 喜 was formed
Traditional analysis treats 喜 as a ideographic compound involving 壴, 口.
Korean example words with 喜
- 희기喜氣 Korean gloss: 기쁜 기분
- 희경喜慶 Korean gloss: 매우 기쁜 경사
- 희색喜色 Korean gloss: 기뻐하는 얼굴빛
- 희보喜報 Korean gloss: 기쁜 기별이나 소식
- 희비喜悲 Korean gloss: 기쁨과 슬픔을 아울러 이르는 말
- 희극喜劇 Korean gloss: 남의 웃음거리가 될 만한 일이나 사건
- 희락喜樂 Korean gloss: 기쁨과 즐거움. 또는 기뻐함과 즐거워함
- 희열喜悅 Korean gloss: 기쁨과 즐거움. 또는 기뻐하고 즐거워함
- 희사喜捨 Korean gloss: 신불(神佛)의 일로 돈이나 물건을 기부함
- 흔희하다欣喜 Korean gloss: 매우 기뻐하다
- 희행하다喜幸 Korean gloss: 기쁘고 다행스럽다
- 수희하다隨喜 Korean gloss: 불보살이나 다른 사람의 좋은 일을 자신의 일처럼 따라서 함께 기뻐하다
Definitions from Woorimalsam, National Institute of Korean Language (CC BY-SA 2.0 KR)
Japanese words with 喜
- 喜びよろこび joy; delight; rapture
- 喜んでよろこんで with pleasure; gladly; willingly
- 喜劇きげき comedy
- 喜ぶよろこぶ to be delighted; to be glad; to be pleased
- 喜ばすよろこばす to delight; to please; to make (someone) happy
- 大喜びおおよろこび great joy; delight; jubilation
- 喜ばしいよろこばしい joyful (news, event, etc.); joyous; delightful (e.g. result)
- 歓喜かんき delight; great joy
- 一喜一憂いっきいちゆう alternating between happiness and anxiety; swinging between joy and sorrow; being glad and sad by turns
- 喜怒哀楽きどあいらく human emotions (joy, anger, grief and pleasure); feelings
- 喜寿きじゅ 77th birthday
- 喜望峰きぼうほう Cape of Good Hope
Characters sharing the phonetic 喜
Most Han characters pair a meaning part with a sound part. Characters sharing a sound part are usually read alike. Most of this group are read “희” in Korean.
Other hanja read “희”
Other hanja with radical 口
Some glosses are machine-generated. Sources and licences are listed together — sources and licences