僖

僖 U+50D6, 僖 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-50D6 ← 僕 [U+50D5] CJK Unified Ideographs 僗 → [U+50D7]

Translingual

Han character

僖 (Kangxi radical 9, 人+12, 14 strokes, cangjie input 人土口口 (OGRR), four-corner 2426₁, composition ⿰亻喜)

1. joy, gladness, delight
2. surname

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 116, character 20
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1095
• Dae Jaweon: page 247, character 31
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 217, character 1
• Unihan data for U+50D6

Chinese

simp. and trad.		僖

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 僖
Small seal script s05804 Transcribed ancient scripts L01942 L01943 L01944 L01945 L01946
References: Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation), which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including: Shuowen Jiezi (small seal), Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions), Liushutong (Liushutong characters) and Yinxu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).

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

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *qʰlɯ) : semantic 人 (“person”) + phonetic 喜 (OC *qʰlɯʔ).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xī (xi¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): hei¹
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): hi¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xī
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: si
    • Wade–Giles: hsi¹
    • Yale: syī
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shi
    • Palladius: си (si)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: hei¹
    • Yale: hēi
    • Cantonese Pinyin: hei¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: héi¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hei̯⁵⁵/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian, Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: hi¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hi⁵³³/

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• Middle Chinese: xi

Rime
Character	僖
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
Baxter	xi
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/hɨ/
Pan Wuyun	/hɨ/
Shao Rongfen	/xie/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/hɨ/
Li Rong	/xiə/
Wang Li	/xĭə/
Bernhard Karlgren	/xi/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xī
Expected Cantonese Reflex	hei1

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*qʰlɯ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	僖
Reading #	1/1
No.	13412
Phonetic component	喜
Rime group	之
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	僖
Old Chinese	/*qʰlɯ/

Definitions

僖

1. joyful; happy; glad; delighted
2. a surname

References

• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “僖”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 252.

Japanese

Kanji

僖

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: き (ki)
• Kan-on: き (ki)
• Kun: よろこぶ (yorokobu, 僖ぶ)

Korean

Hanja

僖 • (hui) (hangeul 희)

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