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喜欢

xǐ huan 3–5

to like; to be fond of

HSK level
HSK 1
HSK 2.0 level 1 · HSK 3.0 level 1
Characters
2
喜 · 欢
Syllables
2
xǐ huan
Frequency
Very common
corpus count 139

Part of speech: v,vn

Character by character

  • 喜xǐ12 strokesHSK 1like, love, enjoy; joyful thing
  • 欢huān6 strokesHSK 1 traditional 歡happy, pleased, glad; joy; enjoy

Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.

Example sentences

  • 我不喜欢这个。

    Wǒ bù xǐ huan zhè ge

    I don't like this one.

  • 他不喜欢我们。

    Tā bù xǐ huan wǒ men

    He does not like us.

  • 他们不喜欢你。

    Tā men bù xǐ huan nǐ

    They don't like you.

  • 我们喜欢你们。

    Wǒ men xǐ huan nǐ men

    We like you.

Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), contributed by their community.

Words with the same characters

These words share at least one character with 喜欢. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.

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