The Chinese Radical: 吉


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Meaning
happiness    吉

Explanation

Used in these characters:
HSK 1
to be happy, to like, to enjoy, glad

From top: scholar 士, beans 豆, mouth 口. (This character has also been simplified to 吉)
A scholar with beans in his mouth is happy.  
HSK 3
to tie, to bind, knot, bond, to bear fruit, to produce
jié, jiē
Left: thread 纟/糸, right: luck/joy 吉 (simplification of 喜, where the scholar 士 has beans 豆 in the mouth 口 and is happy.)
Threads of joy tie us.  
HSK 3
tone/tune, accent, view, harmonize, adjust
diào, tiáo
Left: word 讠/言 (sound waves out of a mouth 口), right: circumference 周 (A framed 冂 luck 吉, sets its circumference) [joy 吉 = simplification of happy 喜, where the scholar 士 has beans 豆 in his mouth 口 and is happy.]
Words in their circumference are a: tone/tune.  
HSK 3
circumference, week, cycle, complete
zhōu
Outside: frame 冂, inside: luck 吉 (simplification of 喜, where the scholar 士 has beans 豆 in the mouth 口 and is happy)
A framed luck, sets its circumference.  
HSK 5
tangerine
jié, jú
Left: tree 木, right: happy 吉 (simplification of 喜, where the scholar 士 has beans 豆 in the mouth 口 and is happy.)
The tree that makes you happy is the tangerine.  
HSK 6
clean, to purify
jié
Left: water 氵, right: happy 吉 (simplification of 喜, where the scholar 士 has beans 豆 in the mouth 口 and is happy.)
The water makes you happy, if it is clean.  
HSK 6
lucky, giga- (meaning billion or 10^9)

Top: scholar 士, below: mouth 口 (This character is a simplification of happy 喜, where the scholar 士 has beans 豆 in the mouth 口 and is happy)
The scholar's mouth wishes good luck.  
no HSK
investigate, restrain, scold
jié
Left: word 讠(=言 sound waves out of a mouth 口), right: happy 吉 (simplification of 喜, where the scholar 士 has beans 豆 in the mouth 口 and is happy.)
Use words towards the scholar to get something (= out of his mouth 口) when: investigating.  
no HSK
fly upward (bird), soar, contest
xié
Left: happy 吉 (simplification of 喜, where the scholar 士 has beans 豆 in the mouth 口 and is happy.), right: page, head 页 (=頁; head 目 with shoulders 八 and eyebrows 一)
The happiness (above) the heads is: to fly upwards.  
no HSK
straw, stalks left after threshing
jiē
Left: rice plant 禾, right: happy 吉 (simplification of 'happy' 喜, where the scholar 士 has beans 豆 in the mouth 口 and is happy.)
The rice plants make us happy, when they became straw.  

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