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Translingual

Shinjitai
Simplified
Traditional

Han character

(radical 61 +8, 12 strokes, cangjie input 十戈心 (JIP), four-corner 50333)

  1. favor, benefit, confer kindness

Derived characters

Descendants

References

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

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*skʰʷeds
*sqʰʷeds, *ɢʷiːds
*ɢʷiːds
*ɢʷiːds
*ɢʷiːds
*ɢʷiːds
*ɢʷiːds
*ɢʷiːds
*ɢʷiːds
*ɢʷiːds
*sɢʷids

Ideogrammic compound (會意) :  +  (heart).

Pronunciation



  • 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 (Min Nan) /hui²²/
/hue²²/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /hiɛ²⁴²/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /xy⁴⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /hui³⁵/
Haikou (Min Nan) /hui³⁵/

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (33)
Final () (40)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division () IV
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ɦweiH/
Pan
Wuyun
/ɦʷeiH/
Shao
Rongfen
/ɣuɛiH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ɦwɛjH/
Li
Rong
/ɣueiH/
Wang
Li
/ɣiweiH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ɣiweiH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
huì
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
huì
Middle
Chinese
‹ hwejH ›
Old
Chinese
/*[ɢ]ʷˤi[j]-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. *[t] 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

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Compounds


Japanese

Kanji

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

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Readings


Korean

Hanja

(hye) (hangeul , revised hye, McCune-Reischauer hye, Yale hyey)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(huệ)

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