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嘻

xī

Character

What 嘻 means

1. laugh
2. giggle
3. (interjection expressing admiration, surprise etc)

Other readings

嘻 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• xī(interjection expressing surprise, grief etc); variant of {嘻|xī}

Example sentences

• 幼儿园里，老师正在带领小朋友们嘻戏。
  Yòu'éryuán lǐ, lǎoshī zhèngzài dàilǐng xiǎopéngyǒu men xī xì.
  The teachers are playing games with students in the kindergarten.
• 对不起-啊。我昨晚不能睡觉，且我睡过头。嘻嘻！
  Duìbuqǐ - ā. wǒ zuówǎn bù néng shuìjiào, qiě wǒ shuìguòtóu. xīxī!
  Sorrrry. I couldn't sleep last night, and so I overslept. Teehee!

Words starting with 嘻

• 嘻嘻xī xīhee hee; happy
• 嘻哈xī hāhip-hop (music genre) (loanword)
• 嘻皮xī píhippie (loanword)
• 嘻皮笑脸xī pí xiào liǎnsee 嬉皮笑脸

Words containing 嘻

• 笑嘻嘻xiào xī xīgrinning; smiling

Characters built on 喜

These share the phonetic component 喜 (xǐ), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 禧xǐjoy
• 嬉xī(literary) to amuse oneself; to play; to have fun
• 熹xībright; warm
• 僖xīcautious; merry; joyful

Characters that look like 嘻

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 嘴zuǐmouth; beak; nozzle
• 僵jiāngrigid; deadlock; stiff (corpse)
• 噜lūgrumble; chatter
• 噶gáphonetic ga (used in rendering Tibetan and Mongolian sounds)…
• 噗pū(onomatopoeia) pop; plop; pfff
• 噻sāiused in transliteration

Sounds the same

Read xī, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 息breath; news; interest (on an investment or loan)
• 西west
• 希to hope; to admire; variant of 稀
• 吸to breathe; to suck in; to absorb
• 悉in all cases; know
• 惜to cherish; to begrudge; to pity
• 析to separate; to divide; to analyze
• 夕(bound form) sunset; dusk; (bound form) evening; night; Taiwan pr. xì
• 晰clear; distinct
• 稀sparse; scattered; rare; uncommon; diluted; thin; watery
• 牺sacrifice
• 昔former times; the past; Taiwan pr. xí