(xīng) - to flourish; mood, interest (bound) in Mandarin
xīngTraditional: 兴
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Translation
to flourish; mood, interest (bound)
Word origin
The simplified form of 興, whose older graph showed four hands lifting something together, conveying a joint effort that rises and flourishes, hence to flourish and, read xìng, mood or interest.
- Origin
- ideographic
- Root
- from 興, a picture of hands lifting together, giving to rise, to flourish
Stroke order
兴
Examples
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He is very happy.
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I am pleased to meet you.
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She was happy to hear the news.
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He is very interested in music.
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The children are playing happily.
兴 (xīng or xìng) means to flourish or interest; in 高兴 (gāoxìng), happy, it is read xìng with the fourth tone.
Appears in 3 words
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 兴.
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