欣

xīn
adjective #17,943

Meanings

  1. 1 happy
  2. 2 joyful

Examples

HSK 5
Wǒ hěn xīnshǎng zhè fú huà.
I really enjoy this painting.
HSK 6
Tīngdào hǎo xiāoxi, dàjiā yípiàn huānxīn.
The whole crowd was filled with joy at the good news.

Tips

memory
斤 (axe) + 欠 (lacking) - the joy of finishing a task.

Components

radical
欠 qiàn
to yawn; lack
Right 欠 - a person leaning forward with mouth wide open, picturing a yawn or vocal exhalation. As the indexing radical it groups chars about open-mouthed expression: 歌 (to sing), 叹 (to sigh). In 欣 the open mouth signals a happy exclamation - joy that bursts out audibly.
phonetic
斤 jīn
axe; catty
Left 斤 supplies the sound - jīn drifting to xīn through a j/x alternation also seen in 近 (close) and 析 (to split). Originally 斤 pictured an axe head; here it is borrowed purely for sound, with no axe-related meaning carrying through.

Stroke Order

欣 xīn