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禧

禧

Translingual

Han character

禧 (radical 113 示+12, 17 strokes, cangjie input 戈火土口口 (IFGRR), four-corner 34265)

  1. happiness
  2. congratulations

References

  • KangXi: page 846, character 30
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 24828
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1267, character 20
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2408, character 8
  • Unihan data for U+79A7

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 禧

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (喜) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
嘻 *qʰɯ
嬉 *qʰlɯ, *qʰlɯs
禧 *qʰlɯ, *qʰlɯʔ
熹 *qʰlɯ
僖 *qʰlɯ
歖 *qʰlɯ
譆 *qʰlɯ
瞦 *qʰlɯ
喜 *qʰlɯʔ
憙 *qʰlɯʔ, *qʰlɯs
蟢 *qʰlɯʔ
糦 *kʰljɯs
饎 *kʰljɯs

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 禧
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 曉 (32)
Final (韻) 之 (19)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 許其切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /hɨ/
Pan
Wuyun		 /hɨ/
Shao
Rongfen		 /xie/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /hɨ/
Li
Rong		 /xiə/
Wang
Li		 /xĭə/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /xi/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 xī
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 禧 禧
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 13410 13417
Phonetic
component		 喜 喜
Rime
group		 之 之
Rime
subdivision		 0 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 僖 喜
Old
Chinese		 /*qʰlɯ/ /*qʰlɯʔ/

Noun

禧

  1. happiness

Compounds

  • 千禧年
  • 年禧
  • 福禧

Japanese

Kanji

禧

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

禧 • ‎(hui) (hangeul 희, revised hui, McCune-Reischauer hŭi, Yale huy)

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