喜
Meanings
- to be fond of
- to like
- to enjoy
- to be happy
- to feel pleased
- happiness
- delight
- glad
Characters in this entry
- 喜
- xǐ · like, love, enjoy; joyful thing
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Mandarin tones
3 · xi3
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Rime Cantonese 粵拼
ci3 · hei2
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Wiktionary English definitions · Chinese section
Independent source senses for this spelling, with usage labels retained. Not matched to the pronunciation above.
character
- happy; pleased; joyful
- joyful; worth celebrating
- joyful thing; happy event
- pregnancy
- (dated, euphemistic) variola; smallpox
- to be fond of; to like; to love; to enjoy
- (of an organism) to need; to require
- (literary) to be prone to
- a surname
character
- original form of 嬉 (xī)
- (alt-of, alternative) alternative form of 熙
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