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)

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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Cantonese

Hanzi

慧 (Yale wai6)

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Japanese

Kanji

慧

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

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Mandarin

Hanzi

慧 (pinyin huì (hui4), Wade-Giles hui⁴)

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Vietnamese

Han character

慧 (tuệ, huệ)