noun #72,808

Meanings

  1. 1 the double-happiness symbol, a sign of good luck especially in marriage

Examples

Hūnfáng mén shàng tiē zhe dà hóng xǐ zì.
A big red double-happiness sign was pasted on the wedding door.
Xǐtáng hé shàng yìn zhe xǐ.
The wedding candy box was printed with the double-happiness symbol.

Tips

culture
Two ('joy') side by side, read once as or spoken as 双喜 ('double happiness'). It is cut from red paper and pasted everywhere at Chinese weddings to wish the couple shared joy.

Components

semantic
joy; happiness
Left ('joy') is the first of a doubled pair; reduplicating it expresses joy shared by two people — the marrying couple.
semantic
joy; happiness
Right mirrors the left one exactly. The symmetry is the whole point: a single, unsplittable wish for double joy, used only as a decorative wedding glyph.

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