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高兴

gāo xìng 1–4

happy; glad; willing (to do sth); in a cheerful mood

HSK level
HSK 1
HSK 2.0 level 1 · HSK 3.0 level 1
Characters
2
高 · 兴
Syllables
2
gāo xìng
Frequency
Common
corpus count 920

Part of speech: a,an

Character by character

  • 高gāo10 strokesHSK 1high, tall; lofty, elevated; Kangxi radical 189
  • 兴xìng6 strokesHSK 1 traditional 興thrive, prosper, flourish

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

Example sentences

  • 我不高兴。

    Wǒ bù gāo xìng

    I am not happy.

  • 他很高兴。

    Tā hěn gāo xìng

    He is happy.

  • 我很高兴。

    Wǒ hěn gāo xìng

    I am happy.

  • 没有人高兴。

    Méi yǒu rén gāo xìng

    Nobody's happy.

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 高兴. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.

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