咍

咍 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 口戈口 (RIR), four-corner 6306₀, composition ⿰口台)

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 185, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3492
• Dae Jaweon: page 404, character 5
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 610, character 7
• Unihan data for U+548D

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *hlɯː): semantic 口 (“mouth; speech”) + phonetic 台 (OC *l̥ʰɯː, *l'ɯː, *l'ɯː, *lɯ)

咍

1. sound of laughter
2. happy; joyful
3. (alt. form 嗨, 咳) sound of lament

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), B00308
• “咍”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

(Hyōgai kanji)

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• Kan-on: かい (kai)
• Kan’yō-on: たい (tai)
• Kun: わらう (warau, 咍う)^{←わらふ (warafu, 咍ふ, historical)}、よろこぶ (yorokobu, 咍ぶ)

咍 • (hae) (hangeul 해, revised hae, McCune–Reischauer hae)

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Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声): semantic 口 (“mouth”) + phonetic 台 (thai).

咍: Nôm readings: hay^[1][2][3][4], thay^[1][2][3][4], hai^[1][2], hây^[1][2]

1. chữ Nôm form of hai (“two”)
   • Phật thuyết đại báo phụ mẫu ân trọng kinh (佛說大報父母恩重經), folio 14a

     咍(Hai)布(vú)朱(cho)奴(no)所(thửa)対(đói)渴(khát)咍(hai)思(tay)奥(áo)支(che)愈(gió)列(rét)

     [Her] two breasts satisfy his hunger and thirst; [her] two sleeves protect [him] from the wind and cold.

2. chữ Nôm form of hay
   1. (archaic or literary) to know; to get to know; to learn
      • 15th century, Nguyễn Trãi, “歸崑山重九偶作 Quy côn sơn trùng cửu ngẫu tác”, in Quốc âm thi tập (國音詩集):

        𣈜恪咍兠群役恪
        節冷馬女底朱戈

        Ngày khác hay đâu còn việc khác,
        Tiết lành mựa nỡ để cho qua.

        Who knows on a different day if I would be busy or not,
        [So] I would rather not miss out on this nice weather [right now].

   2. (obsolete, auxiliary) can, could, may, might
      • Phật thuyết đại báo phụ mẫu ân trọng kinh (佛說大報父母恩重經), folio 35a

        合(Hợp)咍(hay)㝵(người)𱍸(ấy)咍(hay)把(trả)特(được)恩(ơn)盎(áng)那(nạ)

        Certainly, [one will] know that such a person can repay their parents' kindness.

   3. good, as in useful, inventive, interesting or entertaining; well
   4. often, habitually
   5. or
3. chữ Nôm form of thay (“particle used as a modifier to indicate surprise”)