喜
xǐTraditional: 喜
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Translation
happy, to like (bound morpheme)
Stroke order
喜
Examples
歌。
I like this song.
。
The children all like her.
周末。
He likes reading at the weekend.
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The joy of marriage is truly delightful.
。
He was very glad to hear it.
喜 (xǐ) carries the sense of joy or liking. It almost never stands alone in modern speech, but anchors 喜欢 (to like) and appears on red double-happiness banners at Chinese weddings (囍).
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Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 喜.
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