慧

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): phonetic 彗 + semantic 心 (“heart”)

Han character

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

1. bright, intelligent
2. intelligence

References

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

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Chinese

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simp. and trad.		慧

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): huì (hui⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄨㄟˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): wai³, wai⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: huì
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄨㄟˋ
    • Wade-Giles: hui⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: huey
    • IPA ^(key): /xu̯eɪ̯⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: wai³, wai⁶
    • Yale: wai, waih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: wai³, wai⁶
    • IPA ^(key): /wɐi̯³³/, /wɐi̯²²/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (慧, reconstructed)
Character (慧), 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 (慧, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
慧								huì								‹ hwejH ›								/*[ɢ]ʷˤe[t]-s/								intelligent
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
慧					5474					彗					祭					2					慧					/*ɡʷeːds/

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Japanese

Kanji

慧

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings

• On: けい (kei), え (e)
• Kun: さとい (satoi)

Proper noun

慧 (hiragana けい, romaji Kei)

1. A male given name

慧 (hiragana さとし, romaji Satoshi)

1. A male given name

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

慧 (tuệ, huệ)

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