興 · xìng
thrive, prosper, flourish
Meanings & readings
Meaning & readings
thrive, prosper, flourish
- Mandarin
- xìng
- Cantonese
- hing1
Unihan definitions and selected character readings. Read the word to establish its pronunciation in context.
Readings in Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese
Readings recorded for 興 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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Source record & scope
Unicode Unihan 17.0.0 · kJapanese ↗ · provisional property
コウ キョウ キン おこる おこす おきる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.
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Reading sources explained
- 흥
- KS X 1001 (0) · Educational Hanja (E)
Vietnamese Tiếng Việt
Character readings · Quốc ngữ
Vietnamese readings associated with this Han character. This field alone does not establish word meanings, current usage, or a complete account of Hán-Nôm reading traditions.
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Form & structure
Writing & identity
- Unicode
- U+8208
- Radical
- 臼 · 134
- Strokes
- 16 · Unihan
- Residual
- 9
Source record · Unihan 17.0. Individual senses and historical claims have not yet been reviewed by zimai.
Stroke order
16 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 興
Character connections
No reverse component match in this collection.
Sentence context · 1 matches
佢哋一啲興趣都冇。
Source, contributors & licenses
Cantonese: Tatoeba #385617 · Original contributor: nickyeow · Text editors: nickyeow · CC BY 2.0 FR · Attribution log
English: Tatoeba #6403816 · Original contributor: alishalikescats · Text editors: alishalikescats · CC BY 2.0 FR · Attribution log
Source text unchanged. Original contributor and text editors are credited from the source log, separately from the current owner.
History & distinctions
Related forms
Unihan traditional/simplified variant properties. Conversion may depend on context.
Historical readings
- Middle Chinese
- xing · 虚陵 反切 · #961
- Middle Chinese
- xingH · 許應 反切 · #3009
Guangyun-based transcriptions · PHONO-ML · CC BY 4.0. These describe historical reading categories, not modern word pronunciation.
Source row & reading categories
CSV line 7638 · xing = 曾開三平蒸曉 · xingH = 曾開三去蒸曉
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
- xìng
- kCantonese
- hing1
- kDefinition
- thrive, prosper, flourish
- kTotalStrokes
- 16
- kRSUnicode
- 134.9
- kSimplifiedVariant
- U+5174
- kGradeLevel
- 1
Readings across dictionaries
- Hanyu Da Zidian
- xīng,xìng,xìn 10253.090
- Xiandai Hanyu · 1983
- xīng 1286.051 · xìng 1292.031
- Reading counts · XDHYPLCD
- xìng(499) xīng(164)
- Mandarin / Cantonese · SMSZD
- xīng粵hing1 xìng粵hing3
Reference desk
- Fanqie spellings
- 虚陵 許應
- Kangxi positions
- 1005.050
- Guangyun positions
- 200.22 433.15
- GSR references
- 0889a
- Cangjie
- HXBC
- Four-corner
- 7780.1