惠

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)

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

• 恵 (ゑ, ヱ)

• 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

Historical forms of the character 惠
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

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.

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).

For pronunciation 2, compare the development of the pronunciation of 畦 (qí) from 畦 (MC hwej), which historically differed with 惠 (MC hwejH) only in tone, and is homophonous with 惠 (/ɕi⁵⁵/) in the modern Xi'an dialect (Xi, 2017).

惠

1. benefit; favor; advantage

   • 子曰：「君子懷德，小人懷土；君子懷刑，小人懷惠。」
     子曰：「君子怀德，小人怀土；君子怀刑，小人怀惠。」

     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

     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

• (benefit):

• (benevolent):

• (mild):

惠

1. (Shaanxi dialect) a surname: Xi

• “惠”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
• 李如龙 , 刘福铸 , 吴华英 , 黄国城 (2019) “惠”, in 莆仙方言调查报告 (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 157.
• 周存 , editor (2023), “惠”, in 长汀话词典 CHANGTINGHUA CIDIAN (overall work in Hakka and Mandarin), Guangzhou: 世界图书出版有限公司 , →ISBN, page 187.

(Jinmeiyō kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 恵)

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• 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)

惠 (eumhun 은혜 혜 (eunhye hye))

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

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

惠: Hán Nôm readings: huệ

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