嗨

嗨	U+55E8, 嗨 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-55E8

← 嗧
[U+55E7]

CJK Unified Ideographs

嗩 →
[U+55E9]

Translingual

Han character

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

References

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

Chinese

simp. and trad.		嗨

Glyph origin

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

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): hāi (hai¹)

(Zhuyin): ㄏㄞ
Cantonese (Jyutping): hoi¹, hei¹, hoi¹
Min Nan
(Hokkien, POJ): hài

(Teochew, Peng'im): hai² / hai¹
Wu (Wiktionary): he (T0)

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: hāi
  - Zhuyin: ㄏㄞ
  - Wade–Giles: hai¹
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: hai
  - IPA ^(key): /xaɪ̯⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: hoi¹, hei¹, hoi¹
  - Yale: hōi, hēi, hōi
  - Cantonese Pinyin: hoi¹, hei¹, hoi¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: hoi¹, héi¹, hoi¹
  - IPA ^(key): /hɔːy̯⁵⁵/, /hei̯⁵⁵/, /hɔːy̯⁵⁵/

Note:

hoi1 - colloquial;
hei, hoi1 - variant.

Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hài
  - Tâi-lô: hài
  - Phofsit Daibuun: haix
  - IPA (Xiamen): /haɪ²¹/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /haɪ⁴¹/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /haɪ²¹/
  - IPA (Taipei): /haɪ¹¹/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /haɪ²¹/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: hai² / hai¹
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: hái / hai
  - IPA ^(key): /hai⁵²/, /hai³³/
Wu
- (Shanghainese)
  - Wiktionary: he (T0)
  - IPA ^(key): /he̞/

Definitions

嗨

(colloquial) hey; hi
(colloquial) high; to be exhilarated (may or may not be under the influence of alcohol or recreational drugs)
Alternative form of 咳 (hāi, "sound of lament").

Compounds

嗨喲／嗨哟 (hāiyō)

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)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Japanese

Kanji

嗨

(uncommon “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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