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

Components

radical
qiàn
to yawn; lack
Right - 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: (to sing), (to sigh). In the open mouth signals a happy exclamation - joy that bursts out audibly.
phonetic
jīn
axe; catty
Left supplies the sound - jīn drifting to xīn through a j/x alternation also seen in (close) and (to split). Originally pictured an axe head; here it is borrowed purely for sound, with no axe-related meaning carrying through.

Stroke Order

xīn