惠

See also: 恵

Translingual

shinjitai	恵
simplified	惠
traditional	惠

Etymology

Ideogrammic compound (會意): 叀 + 心 (“heart”)

Han character

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

1. favor, benefit, confer kindness

Derived characters

• 橞, 潓, 繐, 蟪, 韢

Descendants

• 恵

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

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Chinese

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simp. and trad.		惠

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): huì, xī (hui⁴, xi¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄨㄟˋ, ㄒㄧ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): wai⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: huì
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄨㄟˋ
    • Wade-Giles: hui⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: huey
    • IPA ^(key): /xu̯eɪ̯⁵¹/
      
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: xī
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧ
    • Wade-Giles: hsih¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shi
    • IPA ^(key): /ɕi⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: wai⁶
    • Yale: waih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: wai⁶
    • IPA ^(key): /wɐi̯²²/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (惠, reconstructed)
Character (惠), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 匣 (33) Final: 齊 Division: IV			Openness: Closed Tone: Departing (H)			Fanqie: 胡桂切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/ɦweiH/	/ɣiweiH/	/ɣueiH/	/ɦʷeiH/	/ɦwɛjH/	/ɣiweiH/	/ɣuɛiH/

Old Chinese pronunciation (惠, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
惠								huì								‹ hwejH ›								/*[ɢ]ʷˤi[j]-s/								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					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
惠					5483					惠					至					1					慧					/*ɢʷiːds/					說文從叀實叀聲，而叀屮（卉）聲，金文叀非軎亦非專，像韢或十冖畀初文

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Japanese

Kanji

惠

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 恵)

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Readings

• On: けい (kei), え (e)
• Kun: めぐむ (megumu), めぐみ (megumi)

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

惠 (huệ)

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