# 嗨

| 嗨 | U+55E8, &#21992; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-55E8 |
| ← 嗧 [U+55E7] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 嗩 → [U+55E9] |

## Translingual
### Han character

嗨 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 口水人卜 (REOY), four-corner 6805$_7$, composition ⿰口海)

#### References

* 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

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

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

### Etymology 1
#### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): hāi (hai$^1$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄏㄞ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): haai$^1$ / hei$^1$ / hoi$^1$
* Southern Min
    (Hokkien, POJ): hài
    (Teochew, Peng'im): hai$^2$ / hai$^1$
* Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): $^0$he
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: hāi
*** Zhuyin: ㄏㄞ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: hai
*** Wade–Giles: hai$^1$
*** Yale: hāi
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: hai
*** Palladius: хай (xaj)
*** Sinological IPA : /xaɪ̯⁵⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: haai$^1$ / hei$^1$ / hoi$^1$
*** Yale: hāai / hēi / hōi
*** Cantonese Pinyin: haai$^1$ / hei$^1$ / hoi$^1$
*** Guangdong Romanization: hai$^1$ / héi$^1$ / hoi$^1$
*** Sinological IPA : /haːi̯⁵⁵/, /hei̯⁵⁵/, /hɔːi̯⁵⁵/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hài
*** Tâi-lô: hài
*** Phofsit Daibuun: haix
*** IPA (Xiamen): /hai²¹/
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /hai⁴¹/
*** IPA (Zhangzhou): /hai²¹/
*** IPA (Taipei): /hai¹¹/
*** IPA (Kaohsiung): /hai²¹/
** (Teochew)
*** Peng'im: hai$^2$ / hai$^1$
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: hái / hai
*** Sinological IPA : /hai⁵²/, /hai³³/
* Wu
** (Northern: Shanghai)
*** Wugniu: $^0$he
*** MiniDict: he
*** Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): $^0$he
*** Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /he/

#### Definitions

嗨
* Alternative form of 咳 (hāi)

#### Compounds

* 嗨喲 / 嗨哟 (hāiyō)

### Etymology 2

From English hi.

#### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): hāi (hai$^1$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄏㄞ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): haai$^1$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: hāi
*** Zhuyin: ㄏㄞ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: hai
*** Wade–Giles: hai$^1$
*** Yale: hāi
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: hai
*** Palladius: хай (xaj)
*** Sinological IPA : /xaɪ̯⁵⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: haai$^1$
*** Yale: hāai
*** Cantonese Pinyin: haai$^1$
*** Guangdong Romanization: hai$^1$
*** Sinological IPA : /haːi̯⁵⁵/

#### Definitions

嗨
* (colloquial) hi; hey

### Etymology 3

From English high.

#### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): hāi (hai$^1$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄏㄞ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): haai$^1$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: hāi
*** Zhuyin: ㄏㄞ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: hai
*** Wade–Giles: hai$^1$
*** Yale: hāi
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: hai
*** Palladius: хай (xaj)
*** Sinological IPA : /xaɪ̯⁵⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: haai$^1$
*** Yale: hāai
*** Cantonese Pinyin: haai$^1$
*** Guangdong Romanization: hai$^1$
*** Sinological IPA : /haːi̯⁵⁵/

#### Definitions

嗨
* (colloquial) to get high on
* (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] ― jat$^1$ cai$^4$ haai$^1$ [Jyutping] ― all have fun together

#### Compounds

* 口嗨 (kǒuhāi)
* 土嗨 (tǔhāi)
* 自嗨 (zìhāi)

### 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

(Hyōgai kanji)
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#### Readings

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