嗨

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

• KangXi: 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) : semantic 口 (“mouth; speech”) + phonetic 海 (OC *hmlɯːʔ)

嗨

1. (colloquial) hey; hi
2. (colloquial) high; to be exhilarated (may or may not be under the influence of alcohol or recreational drugs)

   一齊嗨／一齐嗨 [Guangzhou Cantonese]  ―  jat¹ cai⁴ hei¹ [Jyutping]  ―  all have fun together

3. Alternative form of 咳 (hāi, “sound of lament”).

• 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–

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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