hoan hỉ
Học thuậtThân thiện
Definition
- Adjective:
- Joyful; delighted: Expressing or feeling great pleasure and happiness, often visibly through facial expressions, gestures, or speech.
- Elated; overjoyed: A state of high spirits and exuberant happiness.
Usage Examples
- Adjective:
- Cả gia đình hoan hỉ đón chào năm mới. (The whole family joyfully welcomed the new year.)
- Tin chiến thắng làm mọi người hoan hỉ. (The news of the victory made everyone delighted.)
- Anh ấy trả lời với nụ cười hoan hỉ. (He answered with a joyful smile.)
Advanced Usage
"lòng hoan hỉ": a joyful heart; a heart filled with delight.
- Ông ấy đón nhận tin ấy với lòng hoan hỉ. (He received that news with a joyful heart.)
Used in formal, celebratory, or literary contexts to describe a profound and often shared happiness, more intense than simple "vui" (happy).
Variants and Related Words
- Hoan hỉ is a Sino-Vietnamese compound word. Its components are:
- Hoan (歡): joy, mirth.
- Hỉ (喜): happiness, delight.
- Hân hoan (adj): jubilant, exultant. A close synonym with a similar register and intensity.
- Vui mừng (adj): glad, happy. A more common and general synonym.
Synonyms
- Vui sướng: glad, joyous.
- Mừng rỡ: overjoyed, thrilled.
- Phấn khởi: excited, exhilarated.
Related Idioms and Phrases
Mặt mày hoan hỉ: having a joyful countenance; beaming with happiness.
- Nghe tin con thi đỗ, bà mẹ mặt mày hoan hỉ. (Hearing the news her child passed the exam, the mother's face beamed with happiness.)
Lòng dạ hoan hỉ: (one's) heart is filled with joy.
- Được gặp lại bạn cũ, lòng dạ tôi hoan hỉ. (Meeting my old friend again, my heart was filled with joy.)