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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
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
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Old Chinese
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韢
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*skʰʷeds
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繐
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*sqʰʷeds, *ɢʷiːds
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憓
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*ɢʷiːds
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潓
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*ɢʷiːds
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惠
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*ɢʷiːds
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蟪
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*ɢʷiːds
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蕙
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*ɢʷiːds
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橞
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*ɢʷiːds
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譓
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*ɢʷiːds
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鏸
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*ɢʷiːds
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穗
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*sɢʷids
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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
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
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Character
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惠
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Reading #
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1/1
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Modern Beijing (Pinyin)
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huì
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Middle Chinese
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‹ hwejH ›
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Old Chinese
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/*ʷˁi-s/
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English
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kind, good
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Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:
* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;
* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
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Definitions
惠
- benefit; favor; advantage
- to benefit; to grant a favor; favor; to advantage
- (obsolete) to love
- benevolent; kindhearted
- mild; gentle; kind
- (polite) used as a form of compliment
- 惠顧/惠顾 ― huìgù ― your patronage
- a surname: Hui
Synonyms
- 利益 (lìyì)
- 好處/好处
- 實利/实利 (shílì)
- 收益 (shōuyì)
- 甜頭/甜头 (Jin)
- 益處/益处 (yìchù)
- 肥 (féi) (usually derogatory)
- 補/补 (bǔ) (literary, or in compounds)
- 補益/补益 (bǔyì)
- 裨益 (bìyì)
- 平和
- 平易 (píngyì)
- 柔和 (róuhé) (also of sound, voice, colour, lighting, etc.)
- 柔弱 (róuruò)
- 柔順/柔顺 (róushùn)
- 溫和/温和
- 溫存/温存 (wēncún)
- 溫柔/温柔 (wēnróu) (especially of a woman)
Compounds
Pronunciation 2
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Definitions
惠
- (Shaanxi dialect) a surname: Xi
Japanese
Kanji
惠
(Jinmeiyō kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 恵)
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Readings
Korean
Hanja
惠 (eumhun 은혜 혜 (eunhye hye))
- grace, benefit, love
- good, gentle, nice
- wise, intelligent
- beautiful, fine
Compounds
Vietnamese
Han character
惠: Hán Nôm readings: huệ
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