EntryWaniKani 40
  1. Taru adjective, Adverb taking the 'to' particle

    merry; joyful; gleeful

Also written 嬉嬉【きき】喜々【きき】喜喜【きき】嘻々【きき】嘻嘻【きき】

Pitch on OJAD

Characters in this word

1
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

glad, pleased, rejoice

Kun
うれ.しいたの.しむ
On
Strokes
15
Taught
Jinmeiyō
JLPT
N1
Frequency
2274 of 2500
Radical
woman

Built from

Used in names as

うらしうれし

Dictionary and index codes (20)
CodeReference
1-3-12SKIP code
3e12.3The Kanji Dictionary
4446.5, 4446.1Four corner code
1777deroo
5b09Unicode hex code
1-20-82JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
1255Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1267New Nelson (John Haig)
722New Japanese-English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
890Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
508Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
655Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
2207Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2319Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
2476Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
6736Morohashi
2048Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
xi1Pinyin reading
heuiKorean reading
n1JLPT level (KANJIDIC2)