希
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to hope; to admire; variant of 稀[xi1]
- HSK 3.0
- Level 3
- Old HSK
- Level 2
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 巾 +4
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 希
- Common rank
- #965
- Unicode
- U+5E0C
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Formation & memory
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How 希 is formed
How to remember it
hope · Heisig RSH #1165
sheaf + 布 cloth
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 希
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 希格斯机制 | (physics) the Higgs mechanism | |
| 希尔内科斯 | Kirkenes (city in Finnmark, Norway) | |
| 希伯来大学 | the Hebrew University of Jerusalem | |
| 斯瓦希里语 | Swahili (language); Kiswahili | |
| 希波克拉底 | Hippocrates (c. 460 BC - c. 370 BC), Greek physician, father of Western medicine | |
| 希拉克 | Jacques Chirac (1932-2019), president of France 1995-2007 | |
| 希西家 | Hezekiah or Ezekias (740-687 BC), twelfth king of Judah (Judaism) | |
| 希拉里·克林顿 | Hillary Rodham Clinton (1947-), US Democratic politician | |
| 希拉里 | Hillary (name); Hillary Rodham Clinton (1947-), US Democratic politician | |
| 巴希尔 | Bashir (name); Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir (1944-), Sudanese military man and politician, … | |
| 希尔伯特 | David Hilbert (1862–1943), German mathematician | |
| 路德维希 | Ludwig (name) | |
| 希伯来人 | a Hebrew | |
| 斯瓦希里 | Swahili | |
| 波希米亚 | variant of 波西米亞|波西米亚[Bo1 xi1 mi3 ya4] | |
| 希格斯 | Higgs (name); Peter Higgs (1929-), British theoretical physicist, one proposer of the Higg… | |
| 大有希望 | to stand a good chance; to have great hopes; to be promising | |
| 希伯来文 | Hebrew (language) | |
| 路德维希港 | Ludwigshafen am Rhein, German city on the Rhine opposite Mannheim | |
| 希伯来语 | Hebrew (language) |
Sound family
These characters use 希 as their sound component — compare how they read.