喜欢 (xǐ huan): meaning and stroke order
喜欢 (xǐ huan) means to like; to be fond of.
喜欢
- Simplified
- 喜欢
- Traditional
- 喜歡
- Pinyin
- xǐ huan
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Stroke order of 喜欢
喜
- xǐ to be fond of; to like
- 12 strokes
Stroke by stroke
欢
- huān variant of 歡|欢[huan1]
- huān joyous; happy
- huān hubbub; clamor
- 6 strokes
- Traditional form: 懽
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Meaning of 喜欢
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xǐ huan
Traditional 喜歡
- to like; to be fond of
Radicals of the characters
- 喜
- Radical 口 (Kangxi radical 30) · 12 strokes · 壴 on top, 口 below
- 欢
- Radical 欠 (Kangxi radical 76) · 6 strokes · 又 on the left, 欠 on the right
Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.
喜欢 in our stories
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过了一会儿,她笑了笑,说:“其实我不喜欢喝咖啡。”
guò le yíhuìr tā xiào le xiào shuō qíshí wǒ bù xǐhuan hē kāfēi
After a while she said with a smile, "Actually, I don't like coffee."
From the story The first date HSK 2
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顾青从小就喜欢画画,他点上蜡烛,照着前一半的样子,一直画到天亮。
Gù Qīng cóngxiǎo jiù xǐhuan huàhuà tā diǎn shàng làzhú zhàozhe qián yí bàn de yàngzi yìzhí huà dào tiān liàng
Gu Qing had loved painting since childhood. He lit a candle and, following the style of the first half, painted until dawn.
From the story The girl in the painting HSK 5
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晚上,于航安慰苏菲:“奶奶不是不喜欢你,她只是不知道该怎么跟你说话。”
wǎnshang Yú Háng ānwèi Sūfēi nǎinai bú shì bù xǐhuan nǐ tā zhǐshì bù zhīdao gāi zěnme gēn nǐ shuōhuà
That evening Yu Hang comforted Sophie: "It's not that Grandma doesn't like you. She just doesn't know how to talk to you."
From the story An old bracelet HSK 6
Where you learn it
喜欢 appears in the vocabulary of our HSK 1 learning material. This is a Mythic Mandarin word list, not an official HSK list.
Stories using 喜欢
- The first date HSK 2
- The girl in the painting HSK 5
- An old bracelet HSK 6
- Leizu and the silkworm HSK 7–9 · Level 8
- The happiness of fish HSK 7–9 · Level 8
- Mending the bowl HSK 7–9 · Level 9
Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).