Reading

hwan

happy, pleased, glad; joy; to enjoy

기뻐할 환gippeohal hwan

Every hanja has a two-part name in Korean: what it means, then how it's read. Here 기뻐할 (gippeohal) is the Korean for happy, and (hwan) is the reading. Say 기뻐할 환 out loud and a Korean speaker knows which character you mean.

Strokes
21
Radical
⽋ 76
Beyond radical
18
Mandarin
huān
Japanese on
kan
Japanese kun
yorokobu

Vocabulary

Words that use

Tap one to see what it means and how it's built. Every character in these words has its own page here.

歡喜환희hwanhui

delectation, glee

Character by character happy + like

Same sound, different character

6 characters are all read (hwan).

Korean has far more hanja than it has syllables, so one sound covers many characters. Write in hangul and it could be any of these — the hanja is what says which one you mean. That is why hanja still turn up in dictionaries, newspaper headlines and legal writing, where guessing from context is not good enough.

All of them are written in hangul.

Character data from the Unicode Unihan database. Korean reading, 훈음 and vocabulary from the libhangul hanja dictionary by Choe Hwanjin (BSD 3-Clause). English translations of whole words from kengdic (MPL 2.0 / LGPL 2.0+), a community dictionary — the occasional entry is wrong.Levels are derived, not official — they are not 한자능력검정시험 급수. The ordering combines Unihan’s kGradeLevel (the school year a character is introduced in Hong Kong, present on 1,539 of the 1,800), total stroke count, and how many national standards treat the character as core.