xīn
adjective

Meanings

  1. 1 old form of 欣 (pleased; delighted) (archaic)

Examples

Xiāoxi chuánlái, dàjiā dōu hěn xīnxǐ.
When the news arrived, everyone was delighted.

Tips

history
is an old written variant of (pleased, delighted) and is not used independently in modern Chinese — the -side form is now standard. It joins the speech radical with the phonetic .
register
Archaic spelling; encountered in old texts and etymology notes only. Write in modern Chinese.

Components

radical
yán
speech; words
The full speech radical on the left links the older form to glad words and joyful expression; the standard swapped this for .
phonetic
jīn
axe; catty
Supplies the sound (reading drifted from jīn to xīn). The same phonetic is shared with and .

Stroke Order

xīn