喜欢
xǐ huan
In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
Traditional: 喜歡
To like, to be fond of — a person, a thing or an activity. A noun or a verb follows directly: 喜欢这本书 'like this book', 喜欢看书 'like reading'. Add 很 for 'like very much': 我很喜欢. The second syllable has a neutral tone.
Thích, ưa một người, một vật hay một việc gì. Theo sau có thể là danh từ (喜欢这本书 “thích quyển sách này”) hoặc động từ (喜欢看书 “thích đọc sách”). Muốn nói “rất thích” thì thêm 很 ở trước: 我很喜欢. Âm tiết thứ hai đọc thanh nhẹ.
VerbRegister: neutral
Examples
Editorial example (illustrative, not a corpus attestation) — awaiting a native-speaker check
Sources & notes
Hán-Việt bridge batch 063 (2026-11-14). Headword, Traditional form and pinyin checked against CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0) source ↗ · Hán-Việt reading: Unihan kVietnamese source ↗ · No Vietnamese entry is linked as its twin; the Hán-Việt reading is given character by character. Definition, literal gloss and example sentence are original; the example has not had a native-speaker check yet.
Common questions
What does “喜欢” mean?
To like, to be fond of — a person, a thing or an activity. A noun or a verb follows directly: 喜欢这本书 'like this book', 喜欢看书 'like reading'. Add 很 for 'like very much': 我很喜欢. The second syllable has a neutral tone. Literally: glad and merry
Is “喜欢” formal or informal?
喜欢 is generally neutral.