希
to hope; to admire; variant of 稀[xi1]
7 strokes
Dict coverage rank #965 U+5E0C
How 希 is formed
How to remember it
hope · Heisig RSH #1165
sheaf + 布 cloth
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Characters built with 希 as their sound component
These characters all use 希 (xī) as their phonetic component — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 希 sound component | xī | rare; to hope for, to strive for; to expect |
| 稀 | xī | rare, unusual; scarce, sparse |
| 烯 | xī | alkene |
| 唏 | xī | to weep, to sob; to grieve |
| 欷 | xī | to sigh; to sob |
| 浠 | xī | a river in Hubei province |
| 郗 | chī | an ancient city; surname |
Words containing 希
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 希格斯机制 | Xī gé sī jī zhì | (physics) the Higgs mechanism |
| 希尔内科斯 | Xī ěr nèi kē sī | Kirkenes (city in Finnmark, Norway) |
| 希伯来大学 | Xī bó lái Dà xué | the Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| 斯瓦希里语 | Sī wǎ xī lǐ yǔ | Swahili (language); Kiswahili |
| 希波克拉底 | Xī bō kè lā dǐ | Hippocrates (c. 460 BC - c. 370 BC), Greek physician, father of Western medicine |
| 希拉克 | Xī lā kè | Jacques Chirac (1932-2019), president of France 1995-2007 |
| 希西家 | Xī xī jiā | Hezekiah or Ezekias (740-687 BC), twelfth king of Judah (Judaism) |
| 希拉里·克林顿 | Xī lā lǐ · Kè lín dùn | Hillary Rodham Clinton (1947-), US Democratic politician |
| 希拉里 | Xī lā lǐ | Hillary (name); Hillary Rodham Clinton (1947-), US Democratic politician |
| 巴希尔 | Bā xī ěr | Bashir (name); Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir (1944-), Sudanese military man and politician, … |
| 希尔伯特 | Xī ěr bó tè | David Hilbert (1862–1943), German mathematician |
| 路德维希 | Lù dé wéi xī | Ludwig (name) |
| 希伯来人 | Xī bó lái rén | a Hebrew |
| 斯瓦希里 | Sī wǎ xī lǐ | Swahili |
| 波希米亚 | Bō xī mǐ yà | variant of 波西米亞|波西米亚[Bo1 xi1 mi3 ya4] |
| 希格斯 | Xī gé sī | Higgs (name); Peter Higgs (1929-), British theoretical physicist, one proposer of the Higg… |
| 大有希望 | dà yǒu xī wàng | to stand a good chance; to have great hopes; to be promising |
| 希伯来文 | Xī bó lái wén | Hebrew (language) |
| 路德维希港 | Lù dé wéi xī gǎng | Ludwigshafen am Rhein, German city on the Rhine opposite Mannheim |
| 希伯来语 | Xī bó lái yǔ | Hebrew (language) |