嗨

Translingual

Han character

嗨 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 口水人卜 (REOY), four-corner 6805₇, composition ⿰口海)

References

Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 204, character 11
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 4137
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 671, character 3
Unihan data for U+55E8

Chinese

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声) : semantic 口 (“mouth; speech”) + phonetic 海 (OC *hmlɯːʔ)

Etymology 1

simp. and trad.		嗨

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): hāi (hai¹)

(Zhuyin): ㄏㄞ
Cantonese (Jyutping): haai¹ / hei¹ / hoi¹
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): hài

(Teochew, Peng'im): hai² / hai¹
Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁰he

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: hāi
  - Zhuyin: ㄏㄞ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: hai
  - Wade–Giles: hai¹
  - Yale: hāi
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: hai
  - Palladius: хай (xaj)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /xaɪ̯⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: haai¹ / hei¹ / hoi¹
  - Yale: hāai / hēi / hōi
  - Cantonese Pinyin: haai¹ / hei¹ / hoi¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: hai¹ / héi¹ / hoi¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /haːi̯⁵⁵/, /hei̯⁵⁵/, /hɔːi̯⁵⁵/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hài
  - Tâi-lô: hài
  - Phofsit Daibuun: haix
  - IPA (Xiamen): /hai²¹/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /hai⁴¹/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /hai²¹/
  - IPA (Taipei): /hai¹¹/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /hai²¹/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: hai² / hai¹
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: hái / hai
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /hai⁵²/, /hai³³/
Wu
- (Northern: Shanghai)
  - Wugniu: ⁰he
  - MiniDict: he
  - Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ⁰he
  - Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /he/

Definitions

嗨

Alternative form of 咳 (hāi)

Compounds

嗨喲／嗨哟 (hāiyō)

Etymology 2

simp. and trad.		嗨
alternative forms		hi

From English hi.

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): hāi (hai¹)

(Zhuyin): ㄏㄞ
Cantonese (Jyutping): haai¹

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: hāi
  - Zhuyin: ㄏㄞ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: hai
  - Wade–Giles: hai¹
  - Yale: hāi
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: hai
  - Palladius: хай (xaj)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /xaɪ̯⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: haai¹
  - Yale: hāai
  - Cantonese Pinyin: haai¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: hai¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /haːi̯⁵⁵/

Definitions

嗨

(colloquial) hi; hey

Etymology 3

simp. and trad.		嗨
alternative forms		high hi

From English high.

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): hāi (hai¹)

(Zhuyin): ㄏㄞ
Cantonese (Jyutping): haai¹

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: hāi
  - Zhuyin: ㄏㄞ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: hai
  - Wade–Giles: hai¹
  - Yale: hāi
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: hai
  - Palladius: хай (xaj)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /xaɪ̯⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: haai¹
  - Yale: hāai
  - Cantonese Pinyin: haai¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: hai¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /haːi̯⁵⁵/

Definitions

嗨

(colloquial) to get high on
(colloquial) to be exhilarated; to have fun (not necessarily under the influence of alcohol or recreational drugs)
一齊嗨／一齐嗨 [Guangzhou Cantonese] ― jat¹ cai⁴ haai¹ [Jyutping] ― all have fun together

Compounds

土嗨 (tǔhāi)
自嗨 (zìhāi)

References

Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A00646
“嗨”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Japanese

Kanji

嗨

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

Go-on: かい (kai)
Kan-on: かい (kai)
Tō-on: はい (hai)

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