Character Details
| happy; celebration; to like | Ascii: — | w194 | |||||||||
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| Hanyu | Pinyin | Pronunciation | Tone | Components/Primitives | Wiktionary | Alt Sounds | |||||
| 喜 | xǐ | tsee | 3 | 士 (scholar) + 口 (mouth) + 口 (mouth) + 口 (mouth) → joy | 喜 link | ||||||
| Picture | Character Story | ||||||||||
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The samurai sitting on the drum is on a stage, and the people below him are joyful with their mouths in unison. It helps me to imagine the placement this way. | ||||||||||
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| [HSK 2] - — | |||||||||||
| Examples | |||||||||||
| - I’m glad you like it | - --Research Pending-- | ||||||||||
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| Single Character Decomposition | |||||||||||
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| Radical | Name | Label | Domain | Component Persona | Example Characters | ||||||
| 31 - 口 | kǒu | mouth | mouth | square mouth | 口 吃 和 | ||||||
| Elements | Semantic Element | Phonetic Element | Note | ||||||||
| 士 (scholar) + 口 (mouth) + 口 (mouth) + 口 (mouth) → joy | 口 (semantic origin) | 壴 (phonetic) | phonetic from 壴 | ||||||||