Taxonomy of meanings for 歡:　　

  • 歡 huān (OC: qhoon MC: hʷɑn) 呼官切 平 廣韻：【同歡又音貫 】
  • 歡 huān (OC: qhoon MC: hʷɑn) 呼官切 平 廣韻：【喜也呼官切十三 】
    • DELIGHT
      • vtoNbecome happy/joyful with respect to> rejoice in
      • vibe delighted 大驩
      • vadVjoyfully, happily
      • vibe delighted
      • lasting>HAPPY
        • virejoice; be happy in the company of others; be on cheerfully friendly terms with each other, be delighted; enjoy oneself, be in high spirits
        • vadNcharacterised by happy good-will
        • vichangebecome happy
        • vadVjoyfully, happily (sometimes with weak archaic suffix 言
        • nabacthappiness; joyfulness; cheerfulness; cheer
        • feature: prone to be:LIVELY
          • arrangement for>FEAST
            • with one another>FRIEND
              • vibe on good terms, be on friendly terms 甚懽
              • vtoNbe on friendly terms with
              • vt(oN)feel friendly towards the contextually determinate N
              • vadVwith friendly devotion
              • intimate>LOVE
                  • grammaticalised>YOU

            Additional information about 歡

            說文解字: 【歡】，喜樂也。 〔小徐本無「也」。〕 从欠、雚聲。 【呼官切】

              Criteria
            • SAD

              1. The general word for sadness of any kind is bēi 悲 (ant. huān 歡 "joyful" and xǐ 喜 "delighted").

              2. Yōu 悠 refers to a pensive listlessness, a wistful kind of sadness.

              3. Qī 悽 (ant. lè 樂 "feel acute profound joy") refers to acute profound unhappiness.

              4. Yù 鬱 (ant. xīn 欣 "in high spirits") refers to largely endogenic sadness or depression.

              5. Shāng 傷 (ant. yuè 悅 "be pleased") refers to sadness caused by identifiable external conditions.

              6. Cǎn 慘／憯 refers poetically to a kind of despondency.

              7. Mǐn 閔 / 憫 is a very poetic word which typically refers to a kind of sadness that has external causes and can be close to compassion.

              8. Chóu 愁 refers to an internalised sadness one is reluctant to show openly.

              9. Qī 戚 / 慽 is an archaising elevated word for sadness that is common in poetry.

              10. Qī chuàng 悽愴 refers to sadness typically associated with regret or even remorse.

              NB: The vocabulary of sadness in Chinese poses very special problems because it is to huge: in many cases I am quite unable to determine the exact nuances. This subject requires a special monograph.

            • DELIGHT

              1. The general current word referring to the purely psychological notion of a transitory or temporary feeling of pleasure or delight is yuè 悅 (ant. yùn 慍 "feel intensely dissatisfied with, feel offended by").

              2. The equally current lè 樂 (ant. āi 哀 "grief") adds to yuè 悅 the dimensions of practical indulgence, psychological and often philosophical depth, and - very often - a dimension of joy that can be shared and appreciated by others, and that is typically lasting if not permanent. See ENJOY

              3. Xǐ 喜 (ant. yōu 憂 "worry") is openly manifested delight, manifested in an individual, visible to all, but not normally of any profound significance.

              4. Huān 歡 (ant. bēi 悲 "sadness" and chóu 愁 "worried sadness") refers to sociable temporary high spirits, not only visible to many but normally shared by a group.

              5. Kuài 快 refers to momentary elation related to or intense satisfaction with a concrete situation.

              6. Xīn 欣 refers to grateful delight in what is designed to gratify one's desires.

              7. Yú 娛 is often causative "give pleasure to", and when intransitive the word refers to a mild feeling of well-being and gratification, very close to yú 愉 "mild delight".

              8. Yí 怡 refers to a kind of open unhidden dignified satisfaction.

            • HAPPY

              1. Fú 福 (ant. huò 禍 "misfortune") is the most common noun for material good fortune and well-being.

              2. Lè 樂 refers specifically to happiness as a rewarding inward state.

              3. Huān 歡 / 驩 / 懽 refers to a sometimes transitory form of sociable and communicative happiness.

              4. Xǐ 喜 typically refers to happiness as a response to something.

              5. Yú 愉 / 媮 refers to happy contentment with things as they are.

              6. Kuài 快 refers to a transient, acute state of happiness.

              7. Yú 娛 (ant yo1u 憂 "worry") typically refers to indulgent happiness with thing as they are.

              8. Yì 懌 is an ancient poetic word referring to dignified contentment, and the word became current in the negative 不懌 "be displeased".

              9. Yí 怡 is a fairly rare elevated poetic word referring to the state of being pleased, contented, and thus happy.

              10. Ān 安 can refer to happy peace of mind.

              11. Yuè 悅 can come to refer to a happy state of contentment with what happens to one or around one.

              12. Xìng 幸 "luck" can refer to to a serendipitously found state of happiness.

              13. Qìng 慶 is an archaic way of referring to material as well as psychological well-being.

              14. Kāng 康 is an archaic way of referring to material and physical well-being.

              Word relations
            • Ant: (HAPPY)忿/ANGER Fèn 忿 (ant. yuè 說／悅 "feel not the slightest anger but on the contrary feel pleased") refers to momentary and intense anger, and it does not typically focus on an show of emotion. There is a difference of degree between nù 怒 "show (often great) anger (怒甚, 大怒) and fèn 忿 "be momentarily angry" (there is no dà fèn 大忿, fèn shèn 忿甚). Nù 怒 forms vtS, whereas fèn 忿 does not have that function. [INTENSE], [MOMENTARY], [PERSONAL]
            • Assoc: (HAPPY)欣/DELIGHT
            • Assoc: (HAPPY)欣 / 歆/DELIGHT Xīn 欣 refers to grateful delight in what is designed to gratify one's desires.