嘻 — Chinese character
嘻
xī
happy, giggling, laughing; an interjection
- Pinyin
- xī
- Radical
- 30 ⼝ (Mouth)
- Strokes
- 15
- Components
- 口 喜
- Formation
- ideographic — A happy 喜 sound 口; 喜 also provides the pronunciation
Common words with 嘻
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 嘻哈 | xī hā | hip-hop (music genre) (loanword) |
| 嘻嘻 | xī xī | hee hee; happy |
| 笑嘻嘻 | xiào xī xī | grinning; smiling |
| 嘻皮笑脸 (嘻皮笑臉) | xī pí xiào liǎn | see 嬉皮笑脸 (xī pí xiào liǎn) |
| 嘻皮 | xī pí | hippie (loanword) |
English words written with 嘻
嘻 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: I Ching 2 · Zhuangzi 5
- Hexagram 37
- Zhuangzi How to Govern
- Zhuangzi The Universe
- Zhuangzi On Declining Power
- Zhuangzi The Old Fisherman
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.