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U+60E0, 惠
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-60E0

CJK Unified Ideographs

Translingual

Japanese
Simplified
Traditional

Han character

(Kangxi radical 61, +8, 12 strokes, cangjie input 十戈心 (JIP), four-corner 50333, composition ⿳⿻ or ⿱⿻)

Derived characters

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

simp. and trad.
alternative forms

Glyph origin

Ideogrammic compound (會意会意) and phono-semantic compound (形聲形声, OC *ɢʷiːds) : phonetic () + semantic (heart). Originally also written .

Etymology

Related to (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



  • Dialectal data
Variety Location
Mandarin Beijing /xuei⁵¹/
Harbin /xuei⁵³/
Tianjin /xuei⁵³/
Jinan /xuei²¹/
Qingdao /xue⁴²/
Zhengzhou /xuei³¹²/
Xi'an /ɕi⁴⁴/
/xuei⁴⁴/ 恩~
Xining /xuɨ²¹³/
Yinchuan /xuei¹³/
Lanzhou /xuei¹³/
Ürümqi /xuei²¹³/
Wuhan /xuei³⁵/
Chengdu /xuei¹³/
Guiyang /xuei²¹³/
Kunming /xuei²¹²/
Nanjing /xuəi⁴⁴/
Hefei /xue⁵³/
Jin Taiyuan /xuei⁴⁵/
Pingyao /xuæ³⁵/
Hohhot /xuei⁵⁵/
Wu Shanghai /ɦue²³/
Suzhou /ɦue̞³¹/
Hangzhou /ɦui¹³/
Wenzhou /vu²²/
Hui Shexian /xue²²/
Tunxi /ɕye¹¹/
Xiang Changsha /fei⁵⁵/
Xiangtan /ɸəi⁵⁵/
Gan Nanchang /fɨi²¹/
Hakka Meixian /fi⁵³/
Taoyuan /fui⁵⁵/
Cantonese Guangzhou /wɐi²²/
Nanning /wɐi²²/
Hong Kong /wɐi²²/
Min Xiamen (Hokkien) /hui²²/
/hue²²/
Fuzhou (Eastern Min) /hiɛ²⁴²/
Jian'ou (Northern Min) /xy⁴⁴/
Shantou (Teochew) /hui³⁵/
Haikou (Hainanese) /hui³⁵/

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (33)
Final () (40)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division () IV
Fanqie
Baxter hwejH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ɦweiH/
Pan
Wuyun
/ɦʷeiH/
Shao
Rongfen
/ɣuɛiH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ɦwɛjH/
Li
Rong
/ɣueiH/
Wang
Li
/ɣiweiH/
Bernhard
Karlgren
/ɣiweiH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
huì
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
wai6
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
huì
Middle
Chinese
‹ hwejH ›
Old
Chinese
/*ʷˁi-s/
English kind, good

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.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 5483
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ɢʷiːds/
Notes

Definitions

  1. benefit; favor; advantage
  2. to benefit; to grant a favor; favor; to advantage
  3. (obsolete) to love
  4. benevolent; kindhearted
  5. mild; gentle; kind
  6. (polite) used as a form of compliment
      ―  huì  ―  your patronage
  7. a surname: Hui
Synonyms
  • (benefit):
  • (benevolent):
  • (mild):

Compounds

Pronunciation 2

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  • Dialectal data
Variety Location
Mandarin Beijing /xuei⁵¹/
Harbin /xuei⁵³/
Tianjin /xuei⁵³/
Jinan /xuei²¹/
Qingdao /xue⁴²/
Zhengzhou /xuei³¹²/
Xi'an /ɕi⁴⁴/
/xuei⁴⁴/ 恩~
Xining /xuɨ²¹³/
Yinchuan /xuei¹³/
Lanzhou /xuei¹³/
Ürümqi /xuei²¹³/
Wuhan /xuei³⁵/
Chengdu /xuei¹³/
Guiyang /xuei²¹³/
Kunming /xuei²¹²/
Nanjing /xuəi⁴⁴/
Hefei /xue⁵³/
Jin Taiyuan /xuei⁴⁵/
Pingyao /xuæ³⁵/
Hohhot /xuei⁵⁵/
Wu Shanghai /ɦue²³/
Suzhou /ɦue̞³¹/
Hangzhou /ɦui¹³/
Wenzhou /vu²²/
Hui Shexian /xue²²/
Tunxi /ɕye¹¹/
Xiang Changsha /fei⁵⁵/
Xiangtan /ɸəi⁵⁵/
Gan Nanchang /fɨi²¹/
Hakka Meixian /fi⁵³/
Taoyuan /fui⁵⁵/
Cantonese Guangzhou /wɐi²²/
Nanning /wɐi²²/
Hong Kong /wɐi²²/
Min Xiamen (Hokkien) /hui²²/
/hue²²/
Fuzhou (Eastern Min) /hiɛ²⁴²/
Jian'ou (Northern Min) /xy⁴⁴/
Shantou (Teochew) /hui³⁵/
Haikou (Hainanese) /hui³⁵/

Definitions

  1. (Shaanxi dialect) a surname: Xi

Japanese

Shinjitai

Kyūjitai

Kanji

(Jinmeiyō kanjikyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form )

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

(eumhun 은혜 (eunhye hye))

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

Compounds

Vietnamese

Han character

: Hán Nôm readings: huệ

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