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Mythic Mandarin

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

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

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 喜欢

  1. 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

  • 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

  • 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

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).