惠

Translingual

Han character

惠 (Kangxi radical 61, 心+8, 12 strokes, cangjie input 十戈心 (JIP), four-corner 5033₃, composition ⿳⿻一申⿰㇀丶心 or ⿱⿻一⿻虫一心)

Derived characters

• 僡, 寭, 憓, 橞, 潓, 璤, 穗, 繐, 蕙, 蟪, 譓, 鏸, 韢, 䧥, 𠦽, 𠽡, 𢴥, 𪒜

Descendants

• 恵 (ゑ, ヱ)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 391, character 19
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 10822
• Dae Jaweon: page 724, character 5
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2309, character 10
• Unihan data for U+60E0

Chinese

Glyph origin

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) and phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ɢʷiːds) : phonetic 叀 () + semantic 心 (“heart”). Originally also written 叀.

Etymology

Related to 唯 (OC *ɢʷi, “to be”). Its usual meaning "kind, compliant" could be semantically extended from "should be" > "to consider / treat as it should / ought to be, as expected" as copulas tend to expand into full verb (Schuessler, 2007).

Pronunciation 1

Definitions

惠

1. benefit; favor; advantage

   • 子曰：「君子懷德，小人懷土；君子懷刑，小人懷惠。」 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     子曰：「君子怀德，小人怀土；君子怀刑，小人怀惠。」 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Analects of Confucius, c. 475 – 221 BCE

     Zǐyuē: “Jūnzǐ huái dé, xiǎorén huái tǔ; jūnzǐ huái xíng, xiǎorén huái huì.”

     The Master said: "The gentleman thinks of virtue; the villain thinks of comfort. The gentleman thinks of the sanctions of law; the villain thinks of favors which he may receive."

2. to benefit; to grant a favor; favor; to advantage
3. (obsolete) to love

   • 惠而好我 [Classical Chinese, trad. and simp.]

     From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11^th – 7^th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

     huì ér hǎo wǒ

     (Whoever) loves and cherishes me

4. benevolent; kindhearted
5. mild; gentle; kind
6. (polite) used as a form of compliment

   惠顧／惠顾  ―  huìgù  ―  your patronage

7. a surname: Hui

Synonyms

• (benefit):

• (benevolent):

• (mild):

Compounds

Pronunciation 2

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Definitions

惠

1. (Shaanxi dialect) a surname: Xi

Japanese

Kanji

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 恵)

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Readings

• Go-on: え (e)^{←ゑ (we, historical)}
• Kan-on: けい (kei)^{←けい (kei, historical)←くゑい (kwei, ancient)}
• Kun: めぐみ (megumi, 惠); めぐむ (megumu, 惠む)
• Nanori: あい (ai); あや (aya); け (ke); さと (sato); さとし (satoshi); しげ (shige); しげる (shigeru); へい (hei); み (mi); めぐる (meguru); やす (yasu)

Korean

Hanja

惠 (eumhun 은혜 혜 (eunhye hye))

1. grace, benefit, love
2. good, gentle, nice
3. wise, intelligent
4. beautiful, fine

Compounds

• 恩惠 (은혜, eun-hye) : grace
• 惠澤 (혜택, hye-taek) : benefit
• 受惠 (수혜, su-hye) : benefit

Vietnamese

Han character

惠: Hán Nôm readings: huệ

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