U+559C "喜" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
Source: Browser Default
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
Name
CJK Unified Ideograph-#
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
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Han
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
kIRGHanyuDaZidian
10649.020
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