喜

喜 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 土口廿口 (GRTR), four-corner 4060₁, composition ⿱壴口)

• 僖, 嘻, 嬉, 㝆, 憘, 㵙, 暿, 橲, 熺, 禧, 瞦, 礂, 糦, 繥, 蟢, 譆, 𨭎, 饎, 鱚, 囏, 䵱, 囍
• 敼, 歖, 噽, 嚭
• 憙, 熹

• 㐂
• 𛀣

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 199, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3957
• Dae Jaweon: page 420, character 29
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 649, character 2
• Unihan data for U+559C

Historical forms of the character 喜
Shang	Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 壴 (“drum”) + 口 (“mouth”).

Duplicated character: 囍.

喜

1. happy; pleased; joyful

   喜迎  ―  xǐ yíng  ―  to welcome happily

   喜出望外  ―  xǐchūwàngwài  ―  to be pleasantly surprised

2. joyful; worth celebrating

   喜訊／喜讯  ―  xǐxùn  ―  happy news

   喜筵  ―  xǐyán  ―  banquet for a happy event (typically a wedding feast)

3. joyful thing; happy event

   報喜／报喜  ―  bàoxǐ  ―  to announce good news

4. pregnancy

   有喜  ―  yǒuxǐ  ―  to be pregnant

   害喜  ―  hàixǐ  ―  to have morning sickness

5. (dated, euphemistic) variola; smallpox
6. to be fond of; to like; to love; to enjoy
7. (of an organism) to need; to require

   喜光植物  ―  xǐ guāng zhíwù  ―  photophilous plant

   • 仙人掌喜充足陽光，耐旱不耐寒，喜排水良好的砂質壤土。 [MSC, trad.]
     仙人掌喜充足阳光，耐旱不耐寒，喜排水良好的砂质壤土。 [MSC, simp.]

     From: 彭光途, 陆家怡, 梅慧敏 (1987) 花卉栽培技术, Beijing: 中国林业出版社, →ISBN, page 177

     Xiānrénzhǎng xǐ chōngzú yángguāng, nàihàn bù nàihán, xǐ páishuǐ liánghǎo de shā zhì rǎngtǔ. [Pinyin]

     (please add an English translation of this usage example)

8. (literary) to be prone to
9. a surname

喜

1. Original form of 嬉 (xī).
2. Alternative form of 熙

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. rejoice

• Go-on: こ (ko)
• Kan-on: き (ki, Jōyō)
• Kun: よろこぶ (yorokobu, 喜ぶ, Jōyō); よろこび (yorokobi, 喜び)

• 喜(き)劇(げき) (kigeki, “comedy”)
• 喜(き)捨(しゃ) (kisha)
• 悲(ひ)喜(き) (hiki, “joys and sorrows”)

• 㐂 (non-standard variant for this character)

喜(よし) • (Yoshi) 

1. a male given name

• IPA^(key): [kʲi]

喜(き) • (ki) 

1. joy; delight; pleasure

喜 • (hui) (hangeul 희, revised hui, McCune–Reischauer hŭi)

1. happiness, enjoyment

• 희극 (喜劇, huigeuk)

喜: Hán Nôm readings: hỉ, hỷ, hẻ, hởi

1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

• Nom Foundation
• Thiều Chửu : Hán Việt Tự Điển Hà Nội 1942
• Trần Văn Chánh: Từ Điển Hán Việt NXB Trẻ, Ho Chi Minh Ville, 1999
• Vũ Văn Kính: Đại Tự Điển Chữ Nôm, NXB Văn Nghệ, Ho Chi Minh Ville, 1999