喜
xi3Mathews: 2434GSR: 955a
Dictionary Definition
(a, the) happiness, joy, rejoicing, enjoyment, gladness, gratification, gratitude, delight, elation, well-being, good news, happy event; (to) enjoy, rejoice, exult, delight (in) (s, ed, ing); (to be) happy, joyous, glad, joyful, gratified, grateful, cheerful, pleased, elated (in, of, with)
Radical: 30+9 | First occurrence: Hexagram 12.6
Concordance & Context (11 occurrences)
Entries shown in Hatcher's reference chain order. First Witness at 12.6
6th Line★
rejoicing, joy, happiness, gratification
傾否，先否後喜。
Overcoming the separation
At first denial, then rejoicing
Stats: 30+9→ 25.5
5th Line
happiness, enjoyment, well-being "
無妄之疾，勿藥，有喜。
One without pretense still has afflictions
Do not medicate to bring about well-being
→ 41.4
4th Line
glad, happy, grateful; happiness, joy "
損其疾，使遄有喜，無咎。
Decreasing those sufferings
To take charge and expedite becomes happiness
This is not a mistake
→ 58.4
4th Line
joy, enjoyment, happiness, gratification (s) "
商兌，未寧，介疾有喜。
Measured joy is less than serene
Limit the anxiety to own happiness
→ 22.5x
Xiao Xiang 5
enjoyment, rejoicing, happiness, joy "
六五之吉，有喜也。
22.5x Six fifth has promise:
There will be happiness
→ 26.4x
Xiao Xiang 4
happiness, joy, enjoyment(s), well-being, nuts"
六四元吉，有喜。
26.4x Six fourth (is) most fortunate:
To (still) have well-being
→ 39.3x
Xiao Xiang 3
rejoice, exult (ing); happy, cheerful (ness)
往蹇來反，內喜之也。
39.3x (If) going (is) impassable (then) coming back
(means) turning around:
(Those) within rejoice in this
→ 46.2x
Xiao Xiang 2
happiness, enjoyment, well-being "
九二之孚，有喜也。
46.2x Nine second’s sincerity
Will find happiness
→ 12.6
Xiao Gua
happiness, gladness, enjoyment; gratifying
Stats: 12.6
Xiao Xiang 4
happiness
損其疾，亦可喜也。
41.4x Decreasing those sufferings:
Truly asking for happiness
Xiao Xiang 4
happiness
九四之喜，有慶也。
58.4x Nine fourth’s happiness:
There will be rewards
Homophones (xi)
嘻xi1(are) smirking, snickering, tittering西xi1(from) west "晳xi1plainly, distinctly, (resolution of starlight)息xi1(a, the) breath, sigh; laxity, pause, quiet, relaxation, relief, repose, rest, suspension; extinction, extinguishing; (new) growth, proliferation, waxing; (to be) at rest; (to) appease, cancel, cease, desist, extinguish, finish, go out, nullify, pause, put a stop to, quit, relax, rest, stop, subdue, suspend, wrap up; grow, proliferate, wax (s, ed, ing) ap xi2錫xi1awards, confers, grants; ^awarded, granted臘xi1pr eserved, dried & salted, seasoned, jerked習xi2(a, the) habit, custom, duplication, exercise, experience, familiarity, practice, rehearsal, repetition; duplicity; (to) do repeatedly, familiarize (with), keep on, learn, practice, rehearse, repeat, train, work at; (to be) double, familiar, multiple, practiced, repeated; twice; having to work at something係xi4attached, bound, tied, belonging to繫xi4(to) tie (up), bind, gird, attach to, fasten, affix, tether, restrain, suspend, remember, keep in mind (s, ed, ing); (to be) attached, appended, related, connected, bound虩xi4fear, fright, terror, dread, alarm, anxiety "夕xi4( at, by) night(fall), dark, twilight, evening
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