嬉 · xī
enjoy; play, amuse oneself
Meanings & readings
Meaning & readings
enjoy; play, amuse oneself
- Mandarin
- xī
- Cantonese
- hei1
Unihan definitions and selected character readings. Read the word to establish its pronunciation in context.
Readings in Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese
Readings recorded for 嬉 in other language traditions. These are character-level records, not word translations or interchangeable pronunciations.
Japanese 日本語
Grouped by the source’s kana notation; no frequency ranking is implied.
On’yomi · katakana
Kun’yomi · hiragana
Katakana generally indicates on’yomi; hiragana generally indicates kun’yomi. The source does not identify everyday, rare, historical or name use per reading. Kana strings are preserved, including any written endings; consult a Japanese word entry for actual use.
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Korean 한국어
Hanja readings · Hangul
Source codes are separated below. They are neither sounds nor tones; a character reading alone does not specify a whole word’s pronunciation.
Go deeperNaver Hanja ↗Wiktionary ↗
Reading sources explained
- 희
- KS X 1001 (0) · Personal-name Hanja (N)
Vietnamese Tiếng Việt
Not recorded for this exact character in this dataset. This does not mean the language has no reading.
Form & structure
Writing & identity
- Unicode
- U+5B09
- Radical
- 女 · 38
- Strokes
- 15 · Unihan
- Residual
- 12
Source record · Unihan 17.0. Individual senses and historical claims have not yet been reviewed by zimai.
Stroke order
15 strokesModern stroke order; regional conventions can differ. Stroke medians: Make Me a Hanzi via HanziLookupJS, drawn as an even pen line.
Graphical structure
How to read these symbols
⿰ left–right · ⿱ above–below · ⿻ overlap. Dotted boxes indicate positions, not missing characters. Each symbol describes the components that follow it; nested symbols describe a component in more detail. Source codes identify alternative analyses, not a writing sequence or an etymology.
BabelStone IDS · 2025-06-27. Region tags are preserved; 〾 marks approximation and {n} identifies an unencoded source component. These describe graphical structure, not historical derivation.
Words & connections
Words using 嬉
Character connections
No reverse component match in this collection.
Component roles · attributed
- 喜 sound component · CJKVI analysis
Source analysis · 喜聲
Line 13273 · ⿰女喜 · 喜聲
Source analyses, kept separate from modern IDS. CJKVI labels are not individually verified historical conclusions. Evidence & limits ↗
History & distinctions
Related forms
No simplified/traditional variant property is retained for this record.
Historical readings
- Middle Chinese
- xi · 許其 反切 · #200
- Middle Chinese
- xiH · 許記 反切 · #2272
Guangyun-based transcriptions · PHONO-ML · CC BY 4.0. These describe historical reading categories, not modern word pronunciation.
Source row & reading categories
CSV line 1712 · xi = 止開三平之曉 · xiH = 止開三去之曉
Automatically generated in the source dataset; the authors checked a subset and acknowledge possible errors. All source readings are retained separately. Notation & method ↗
Sources & reference
Evidence & next depth
Retained Unihan properties
- kMandarin
- xī
- kCantonese
- hei1
- kDefinition
- enjoy; play, amuse oneself
- kTotalStrokes
- 15
- kRSUnicode
- 38.12
- kGradeLevel
- 4
- kTGH
- 2013:6017
Readings across dictionaries
- Hanyu Da Zidian
- xī,xǐ 21079.020
- Xiandai Hanyu · 1983
- xī 1226.100
- Tongyong Guifan · 2013
- xī 393.070
- Mandarin / Cantonese · SMSZD
- xī粵hei1
Reference desk
- Fanqie spellings
- 許其 許記
- Kangxi positions
- 0271.280
- Guangyun positions
- 062.29 358.33
- GSR references
- 0955g
- Cangjie
- VGRR
- Four-corner
- 4446.5