慶

慶 (Kangxi radical 61, 心+11, 15 strokes, cangjie input 戈難水 (IXE), four-corner 0024₇, composition ⿸⿸广⿻コ⿰丨丨⿱乛𢖻)

• 櫦, 羻, 𡂻, 𥽝, 𨯙, 𪮿, 𪷸, 𫑭, 𮆯

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 400, character 13
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11145
• Dae Jaweon: page 740, character 8
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 903, character 9
• Unihan data for U+6176

Historical forms of the character 慶
Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

In oracle bone inscriptions Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 廌 (“Xiezhi”) + 心. The component 心 represented the beautiful markings of the mythical beast, signifying goodness, blessings and auspiciousness.

In bronze inscriptions 心 is often also written as 文. During the Warring states period, the tail of 廌 corrupted into 个, then further into 夂 during the Qin dynasty. Based on the overlap between the many ancient variants of the character Ji, Xusheng (2004) suggests that 麕, 廌, 麐, 鹿 all refer to kinds of deer – beautiful and therefore worth celebrating when obtained. He also concludes that there is enough evidence that 慶 and 麐 were once the same character. Since 麐 was the most precious among deer, its character was used to express celebration.

Uncertain. Schuessler (2007) sees possible cognacy to Tibetan གཡང (g.yang, “happiness, blessing, prosperity”), which Bodman (1980) relates to 祥 (OC *ljaŋ).

慶

1. to celebrate; to congratulate

   慶祝／庆祝  ―  qìngzhù  ―  to celebrate

   慶豐收／庆丰收  ―  qìng fēngshōu  ―  to celebrate a bumper harvest

2. celebration

   國慶／国庆  ―  guóqìng  ―  national day

   校慶／校庆  ―  xiàoqìng  ―  anniversary of the founding of a school or college

3. fortuitous; auspicious
4. (literary) good fortune

   • 積善之家，必有餘慶；積不善之家，必有餘殃。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad.]
     积善之家，必有余庆；积不善之家，必有余殃。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: I Ching, 11^th – 8^th century BCE

     Jīshàn zhī jiā, bì yǒu yúqìng; jī bùshàn zhī jiā, bì yǒu yúyāng. [Pinyin]

     The family that accumulates goodness is sure to have superabundant happiness, and the family that accumulates evil is sure to have superabundant misery.

5. (obsolete) virtue; benevolence

   • 一人有慶，兆民賴之，其寧惟永。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     一人有庆，兆民赖之，其宁惟永。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Book of Documents, circa 7^th – 4^th centuries BCE

     Yīrén yǒu qìng, zhàomín lài zhī, qí níng wéi yǒng. [Pinyin]

     One man possesses goodness, the populace rely on that; peace shall be everlasting.

6. a surname

• → Old Turkic:
  • Turkmen: geň

• “慶”, 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–
• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A01424

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. jubilation

• Go-on: きょう (kyō)
• Kan-on: けい (kei, Jōyō)
• Kun: よい (yoi, 慶い); よろこぶ (yorokobu, 慶ぶ)

慶 (eumhun 경사 경 (gyeongsa gyeong))

1. Hanja form^? of 경 (“celebration”).

• 경사 (慶事, gyeongsa, “happy event; auspicious occasion”)
• 국경일 (國慶日, gukgyeong'il, “national holiday”)

慶: Hán Nôm readings: khánh, khương

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