Hanja Analyzer
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