嬉
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(literary) to amuse oneself; to play; to have fun
15 strokes
Dict coverage rank #3,303 U+5B09
How 嬉 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
女 (semantic, “woman”) + 喜 (phonetic, xǐ)
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 喜
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 喜 (xǐ) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 喜 sound component | xǐ | to love; to enjoy, to be happy; joyful, glad |
| 熹 | xī | dim light, a glimmer; warm; bright |
| 蟢 | xǐ | spider; caulking |
Words containing 嬉
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 嬉皮笑脸 | xī pí xiào liǎn | all smiles; smiling mischievously or ingratiatingly |
| 嬉皮士 | xī pí shì | hippie (loanword) |
| 业荒于嬉 | yè huāng yú xī | to be distracted from one's work and fail to achieve results (idiom) |
| 嬉笑怒骂 | xī xiào nù mà | lit. laughs, jeers, anger and invective (idiom); fig. all kinds of emotions; to mock and s… |
| 嬉皮 | xī pí | hippie (loanword) (Tw) |
| 嬉游 | xī yóu | to amuse oneself; to have fun |
| 嬉笑 | xī xiào | to be laughing and playing; to giggle |
| 嬉戏 | xī xì | to frolic; to romp |
| 嬉耍 | xī shuǎ | to play |