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    As @fat penguin said, the characters you see at weddings are 喜, (Happiness), and 囍, (Double Happiness). This is completely different from 辛苦. This character 囍 means “Double Happiness” because it is made up of 喜 X 2, thus "Double Happiness" The back story in short is that a scholar, in the Tang Dynasty, who came in 1st in the Imperial Examination wrote the word 喜 twice on his wedding day to signify the double happiness of passing the examination and getting married. Henceforth this double happiness symbol, 囍, is a must at all Chinese weddings.
    – Wayne Cheah
    Commented Jun 6 at 2:59
  • this is such a fun story! and what about 苦苦
    – ina
    Commented Jun 6 at 3:34
  • This question is tagged as glyph origin, I'm kind of lost here. Do you want the glyph origin of each individual character in the word or do you want the etymology of the word itself?
    – prismcool
    Commented Jun 6 at 4:48
  • @ina - please see my rather long reply to your comment in the answer column.
    – Wayne Cheah
    Commented Jun 6 at 6:22
  • check in zi.tools
    – ZhenRanZR
    Commented Jun 7 at 16:18