U+559C "喜" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
喜
U+559C "喜" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that represents joy, happiness, or delight, and it is commonly used in East Asian cultures as a symbol of positive occasions such as weddings, festivals, and celebrations. This ideograph is often displayed in a doubled form, 囍, to denote double happiness during marital ceremonies, and it appears in calligraphy, decorations, and traditional art. Its structure combines the components for drum, 鼓, and mouth, 口, reflecting the ancient practice of expressing joy through music and song, and it has been part of the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideographs block since the Unicode standard was established.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+559C |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| Block | CJK Unified Ideographs |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 喜 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 喜 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0x96 0x9C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x559C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000559C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u559c |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | B3DF |
| kCCCII | 213661 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-5E45 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-5E45 |
| kCangjie | GRTR |
| kCantonese | hei2 |
| kCihaiT | 283.603 |
| kCowles | 1030 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0420.290 |
| kDefinition | like, love, enjoy; joyful thing |
| kEACC | 213661 |
| kFanqie | 虚里 |
| kFenn | 739B |
| kFennIndex | 161.08 162.01 |
| kFourCornerCode | 4060.1 |
| kGB0 | 4718 |
| kGB1 | 4718 |
| kGradeLevel | 1 |
| kGSR | 0955a |
| kHangul | 희:0E |
| kHanYu | 10649.020 |
| kHanyuPinlu | xǐ(459) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 10649.020:xǐ,xī,chì |
| kHKGlyph | 0621 |
| kIICore | AGTJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0420.290 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10649.020 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0199.050 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-4F32 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-B3DF |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-346E |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-F5FE |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-7D6C |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-5E45 |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-4F5E |
| kJapanese | キ シ よろこぶ |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kTGH | 2013:2523 |
| kJapaneseKun | YOROKOBU YOROKOBI |
| kJapaneseOn | KI SHI |
| kJis0 | 2078 |
| kKangXi | 0199.050 |
| kKarlgren | 129 |
| kKorean | HUY |
| kLau | 1155 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 0823 |
| kMandarin | xǐ |
| kMatthews | 2434 |
| kMeyerWempe | 695 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ008464 MJ008464:E0102 MJ008465:E0103 MJ057175:E0104 |
| kMorohashi | 03957 03957:E0102 |
| kNelson | 0265 1115 |
| kPhonetic | 455 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+1578+30.3.9 C+1578+33.3.9 V+20091+30.3.9 V+20091+33.3.9 |
| kRSUnicode | 30.9 |
| kSBGY | 251.12 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+6199 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 111.01 143.15 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | xǐ粵hei2 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 0823 |
| kTang | *xiə̌ |
| kTGHZ2013 | 394.150:xǐ |
| kTotalStrokes | 12 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | hỉ |
| kXerox | 242:275 |
| kXHC1983 | 1233.080:xǐ |