xīn
adjective

Meanings

  1. 1 glad; delighted (classical, same as 欣)
  2. 2 to enlighten; to open up the mind (classical)

Examples

Xīn zhōu shì Shānxī de yí zuò chéngshì.
Xinzhou is a city in Shanxi Province.

Tips

history
is an old equivalent of ('glad'); modern Chinese uses for that meaning. Today survives mainly in the place name 忻州 in Shanxi and in personal names. The heart radical gives the joy sense; supplies the sound.
register
Archaic and literary, except as a fixed proper noun. For the 'glad' sense always write in modern text.

Components

radical
shùxīn
heart; emotion
is the left-side form of (heart). It signals the emotional sense of gladness in , the same heart that carries.
phonetic
jīn
phonetic element
gives the sound for , the same phonetic seen in and ; the reading has drifted from its source.

Stroke Order

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