享

• 拼音: xiǎng
• 汉字拆解: 享 = 亠 + 口 + 子 (top of a building with an opening — an ancestral hall for receiving and enjoying offerings)

含义

To enjoy; to have the benefit of; to legitimately partake in something pleasurable or privileged.

A somewhat formal or literary single-character verb, often appearing in compound expressions: 享受 (to enjoy), 享有 (to possess rights or prestige), 享乐 (to indulge in pleasure), 享年 (to live to the age of — used in obituaries). As a standalone character it tends to appear in formal or classical-style writing, carrying the implication of deserved or rightful possession of something good.

例句

1. 退休之后，他终于可以静享难得的悠闲时光，不必再为工作日夜操劳。
2. 生在太平盛世，我们每个人都有幸享受前所未有的社会稳定与经济繁荣。
3. 作为公司的创始股东，他依法享一切相应的分红权利与重大决策参与权。

用法指南

语境: literary, formal writing, lifestyle, rights

语气: positive

正确说法

• 功成名就之后，他开始静享生活中的种种美好与从容，不再汲汲于功名。(Having achieved success, he began to quietly enjoy all the beauty and ease that life had to offer, no longer striving anxiously for fame.)
• 这项民生政策使低收入群体得以享更完善的公共医疗资源，切实改善了民众生活。(This social welfare policy enables low-income groups to enjoy access to more comprehensive public healthcare, tangibly improving people's lives.)

错误说法

• 享痛苦或享磨难 — 享 inherently implies the positive reception of something good; for enduring hardship use 忍受, 承受, or 经历 instead

起源与历史

享 = original pictograph of an ancestral hall where offerings are received — to receive and enjoy offerings presented by descendants

文化背景

世代: All ages

社会背景: Universal