DICTIONARY · CC-CEDICT

喜躍抃舞

简喜跃抃舞 · 繁喜躍抃舞

Mandarin · pinyin xǐ yuè biàn wǔ

(idiom) to clap and dance in joy

Full entryShow on map

Characters in this entry

喜: xǐ · like, love, enjoy; joyful thing
躍: Look up this written character
抃: biàn · to clap hands; to cheer
舞: wǔ · dance, posture, prance; brandish
跃: yuè · skip, jump, frolic

Written characters and their own readings; the entry’s pronunciation is shown above.

Explore the spelling

Mandarin tones

3–4–4–3 · xi3 yue4 bian4 wu3

Compare attested words with these syllables ↗

Dictionary tones. Connected speech can change their realization.

Connected dictionary

4character links

Explore word families ↗Compare pronunciations ↗Open character structure ↗

Counts describe dictionary records, not word frequency or semantic similarity. Source identities stay separate.

Read this spelling in Classical texts

Follow a written form into the eight pinned witnesses: Analects, Mencius, Laozi, Zhuangzi, Xunzi, Han Feizi, Sunzi and the Mao Shijing. A match is a place to investigate; it does not prove that a modern dictionary sense fits the passage.

喜躍抃舞 · find source passages ↗ · 喜跃抃舞 · find source passages ↗

Explore Classical grammar ↗