嗨

嗨 U+55E8, 嗨 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-55E8 ← 嗧 [U+55E7] CJK Unified Ideographs 嗩 → [U+55E9]

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

• 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

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

simp. and trad.		嗨

嗨

1. Alternative form of 咳 (hāi)

simp. and trad.		嗨
alternative forms		hi

From English hi.

嗨

1. (colloquial) hi; hey

simp. and trad.		嗨
alternative forms		high hi

From English high.

嗨

1. (colloquial) to get high on
2. (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

• 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–

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

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