慧

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慧 U+6167, 慧
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6167
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 		CJK Unified Ideographs 慨 →

Translingual

Han character

慧 (Kangxi radical 61, 心+11, 15 strokes, cangjie input 手十尸一心 (QJSMP), four-corner 55337, composition ⿱彗心)

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 399, character 18
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11116
  • Dae Jaweon: page 739, character 6
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2340, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+6167

Chinese

trad. 慧
simp. # 慧

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (彗) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
櫘 *sqʰʷeds
彗 *sɢʷeds, *ɢʷeds, *sɢʷids
篲 *sɢʷeds
鏏 *sɢʷeds
槥 *sɢʷeds, *ɢʷeds
轊 *sɢʷeds, *ɢʷeds
熭 *ɢʷeds, *ɢʷad
嘒 *qʰʷeːds
暳 *qʰʷeːds
嚖 *qʰʷeds
慧 *ɡʷeːds
蔧 *sɢʷids
雪 *sqʰʷed

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ɡʷeːds) : phonetic 彗 (OC *sɢʷeds, *ɢʷeds, *sɢʷids) + semantic 心 (“heart”).

Etymology

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Pronunciation

Note:
  • hui6 - literary;
  • goi7 - vernacular.
Rime
Character 慧
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 匣 (33)
Final (韻) 齊 (40)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) IV
Fanqie 胡桂切
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
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 慧
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		huì
Middle
Chinese 		‹ hwejH ›
Old
Chinese 		/*ʷˁe-s/
English intelligent

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 慧
Reading # 1/1
No. 5474
Phonetic
component 		彗
Rime
group 		祭
Rime
subdivision 		2
Corresponding
MC rime 		慧
Old
Chinese 		/*ɡʷeːds/

Definitions

慧

  1. bright; intelligent
    Synonym: 聰 / 聪 (cōng)
  2. intelligence

Compounds

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (慧):
  • → Korean: 혜(慧) (hye)

Japanese

Shinjitai 慧
Kyūjitai
[1]
慧󠄁
慧+&#xE0101;?
(Adobe-Japan1)
慧󠄄
慧+&#xE0104;?
(Hanyo-Denshi)
(Moji_Joho)
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Kanji

慧

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

  1. wise

Readings

Proper noun

慧(けい) or 慧(さとし) • (Kei or Satoshi) 

  1. a male given name

References

  1. ^ Haga, Gōtarō (1914) 漢和大辞書 [The Great Kanji-Japanese Dictionary] (in Japanese), Fourth edition, Tōkyō: Kōbunsha, →DOI, page 894 (paper), page 497 (digital)

Korean

Hanja

慧 (eumhun 슬기로울 혜 (seulgiroul hye))

  1. wise, intelligent, bright, wisdom
  2. cunning, craft, wile
  3. ability

Vietnamese

Han character

慧: Hán Nôm readings: huệ, tuệ
(wisdom, intelligence)

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