The Radical: 吉


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Meaning
happiness    吉

Explanation

Used in these Kanji:
JLPT HSK 1
to be happy, to like, to enjoy, glad

From top: scholar , beans , mouth . (This character has also been simplified to )
A scholar with beans in his mouth is happy.

Vocabulary
JLPT HSK 3
to tie, to bind, knot, bond, to bear fruit, to produce
jié, jiē
Left: thread 纟/, right: luck/joy (simplificaton of , where the scholar has beans in the mouth and is happy.)
Threads of joy tie us.

Vocabulary
JLPT HSK 3
tone/tune, accent, view, harmonize, adjust
diào, tiáo
Left: word / (sound waves out of a mouth ), right: circumference (A framed luck , sets its circumference) [joy = simplification of happy , where the scholar has beans in his mouth and is happy.]
Words in their circumference are a: tone/tune.

Vocabulary
JLPT HSK 3
circumference, week, cycle, complete
zhōu
Outside: frame , inside: luck (simplification of , where the scholar has beans in the mouth and is happy)
A framed luck, sets its circumference.

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JLPT HSK 5
tangerine
jié, jú
Left: tree , right: happy (simplification of , where the scholar has beans in the mouth and is happy.)
The tree that makes you happy is the tangerine.

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JLPT HSK 6
clean, to purify
jié
Left: water , right: happy (simplification of , where the scholar has beans in the mouth and is happy.)
The water makes you happy, if it is clean.

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JLPT HSK 6
lucky, giga- (meaning billion or 10^9)

Top: scholar , below: mouth (This character is a simplification of happy , where the scholar has beans in the mouth and is happy)
The scholar's mouth wishes good luck.

Vocabulary
JLPT no HSK
investigate, restrain, scold
jié
Left: word (= sound waves out of a mouth ), right: happy (simplification of , where the scholar has beans in the mouth and is happy.)
Use words towards the scholar to get something (= out of his mouth ) when: investigating.

Vocabulary
JLPT no HSK
fly upward (bird), soar, contest
xié
Left: happy (simplification of , where the scholar has beans in the mouth and is happy.), right: page, head (=; head with shoulders and eyebrows )
The happyiness (above) the heads is: to fly upwards.

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JLPT no HSK
straw, stalks left after threshing
jiē
Left: rice plant , right: happy (simplification of 'happy' , where the scholar has beans in the mouth and is happy.)
The rice plants make us happy, when they became straw.

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