嬉 — readings, stroke count and radical

Stroke order

Stroke order data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0).

Meaning

glad, pleased, rejoice

English glosses from KANJIDIC2.

Readings

On (Sino-Japanese)
Kun (native)
  • うれ(しい)
  • たの(しむ)
Nanori (used in names)
  • うらし
  • うれし
Other languages
  • 拼音xi1
  • 한글heui
  • Hán-ViệtHi

Basics

Strokes
15 strokes
Radical
子(こ)
JIS level
Level 1
JLPT (old scale)
Level 1
Unicode
U+5B09

Components

Components this kanji is made of. Follow them to find similar kanji.

Composition (IDS): left–right ⿰女喜

Words using this kanji

  • 嬉しいうれしいうれしい 参照happy, glad, pleased, delighted
  • 嬉々ききmerry, joyful, gleeful
  • 嬉笑きしょう、こと。happy laughter
  • 嬉戯きぎ遊び、戯れること。frisking, frolicking, romping, merry play
  • 嬉し涙うれしなみだhappy tears, tears of joy
  • 嬉遊曲きゆうきょくディヴェルティメントの訳語。複数の楽章から成る室内楽曲の形式の一つ。divertimento, divertissement, cassation
  • 嬉しげうれしげseeming happy
  • 嬉しがるうれしがるto seem glad, to look happy, to be glad
  • 嬉しそううれしそうdelightful, glad-looking
  • 嬉し泣きうれしなきweeping for joy, crying with happiness
  • 嬉ションうれション(accidentally) peeing out of excitement, excitement urination
  • 嬉しがらせうれしがらせflattery, adulation, commendation
  • 嬉しいことにうれしいことにto one's delight, to one's joy

Words starting with this kanji, most common first.

See all words containing this kanji(13 results)

Lookup codes

SKIP
1-3-12
Four Corner
4446.1
Spahn–Hadamitzky
3e12.3
Heisig
2319
Nelson
1255