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喜 kanji
rejoice, take pleasure in
- JLPT level
- N3 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N4 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 12
- School grade
- Grade 5 (elementary school)
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On readings
キ
Kun readings
よろこぶよろこばす
Words with 喜
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —喜歌劇comic opera; operetta
- —悲喜劇tragicomedy
- —喜望峰Cape of Good Hope
- —延喜式Engi-Shiki (set of ancient Japanese governmental regulations)
- —喜知次broadbanded thornyhead (Sebastolobus macrochir); broadfin thornyhead; kichiji rockfish
- —歓喜天Nandikesvara (Ganesh in the Buddhist pantheon)
- —喜劇的comical; farcical
- —大喜利quiz-like (TV) comedy segment in which participants improvise one-liners based on a given theme; last piece of the day (in a vaudeville or music hall programme, etc.); last-item comic dialogue
- —喜劇映画comedy film; comic film
- —喜色満面being all smiles with joy
- —欣喜雀躍jump up for joy
- —狂喜乱舞boisterous dance; dancing wildly
- —随喜渇仰worship with adoration; ardent admiration
- —歓天喜地great joy; jubilation; exultation
- —随喜の涙tears of joy
- —弥次喜多comical pair; pair of buffoons
- —歓喜雀躍jumping with joy
- —喜劇役者comic actor; comedian; comic performer
- —歓喜の歌Ode to Joy (choral fourth movement of Beethoven's Symphony No. 9)
- —團平喜佐古Umbonium giganteum (species of sea snail)
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