狂欢
kuáng huān · HSK 7
party
🎉🎊 狂 kuáng = wild/crazy + 欢 huān = joy → wild joy = a party
狂 carries the wild, manic sense (same 狂 as in crazy/mania); 欢 is the joy/cheer character. Wild + cheer stacks up to carousal and riotous merriment.
狂 — dog radical 犭+ king 王
Originally written with 犬 (dog) as the semantic component and 㞷 as the phonetic, depicting a wildly running dog. The meaning extended from 'mad dog' to 'crazy, wild, unrestrained' in general. The modern form simplifies the right side to 王.