慰

Translingual

Han character

慰 (radical 61 心+11, 15 strokes, cangjie input 尸戈心 (SIP), X尸戈心 (XSIP), four-corner 7433₀)

1. comfort, console, calm

References

• KangXi: page 400, character 3
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11135
• Dae Jaweon: page 739, character 23
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2343, character 15
• Unihan data for U+6170

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Cantonese

Hanzi

慰 (jyutping wai3, Yale wai)

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Japanese

Kanji

慰 (common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• On: い (i)
• Kun: なぐさ (慰, nagusa), なぐさむ (慰む, nagusamu), なぐさみ (慰み, nagusami), なぐさめる (慰める, nagusameru), なぐさめ (慰 / 慰め, nagusame)

Compounds

• 慰霊碑 (いれいひ, ireihi)
• 慰労 (いろう, irō)
• 自慰 (じい, jii)

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Korean

Hanja

慰
Eumhun:

• Sound (hangeul): 위 (revised: wi, McCune-Reischauer: wi, Yale: wi)

• Name (hangeul): 위로할 위 (wirohal, wi)()

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Mandarin

Hanzi

慰 (pinyin wèi (wei4), Wade-Giles wei⁴)

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Vietnamese

Han character

慰 (ủy, uý, ủi)