嘻 - Dong Chinese dictionary

This information for this character has not been manually reviewed and may not be accurate.

xī

mirthful

A happy 喜 sound 口; 喜 also provides the pronunciation

Components

口 Meaning component

kǒu

mouth

xǐ

like, happy

Evolution

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Regular script

Modern

Definitions

xī

mirthful, happy; interjection; laugh; giggle; (interjection expressing admiration, surprise etc)

xī

(interjection expressing surprise, grief etc); variant of 嘻[xī]

Most common words with 嘻

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 2.4507% of movies

2183rd most common character in movies

2432nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes	15
Unicode	U+563B

Sources