慈

§Translingual

§Han character

慈 (radical 61 心+10, 14 strokes, cangjie input 廿女戈心 (TVIP), four-corner 8033₃, composition ⿱兹心)

1. kind, charitable, benevolent

§References

• KangXi: page 397, character 25
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 10980
• Dae Jaweon: page 736, character 19
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2324, character 3
• Unihan data for U+6148

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§Chinese

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simp. and trad.		慈

§Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): cí (ci²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄘˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ci⁴
• Hakka (Pha̍k-fa-sṳ): chhṳ̀

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: cí
    • Zhuyin: ㄘˊ
    • Wade-Giles: tz'u²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tsyr
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰz̩³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: ci⁴
    • Yale: chìh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsi⁴
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰiː²¹/
• Hakka
  • Romanisations:
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chhṳ̀
    • IPA (Siyen, including Miaoli): /t͡sʰɨ¹¹/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (慈, reconstructed)
Character (慈), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 從 (15) Final: 之 Division: III			Openness: Open Tone: Level (Ø)			Fanqie: 疾之切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/d͡zɨ/	/d͡zʱi/	/d͡ziə/	/d͡zɨ/	/d͡zɨ/	/d͡zĭə/	/d͡zie/

Old Chinese pronunciation (慈, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
慈								cí								‹ dzi ›								/*[N-ts]ə/								loving, kind
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
慈					17845					兹					之					0					慈					/*zɯ/

§Compounds

• 慈菇, 慈姑 (cígū)

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§Japanese

§Kanji

慈

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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§Readings

• Goon: じ (ji)
• Kan’on: し (shi)
• Kun: いつくしむ (itsukushimu), いつくしみ (itsukushimi)

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§Korean

§Hanja

慈 (ja) (hangeul 자, revised ja, McCune-Reischauer cha, Yale ca)

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§Vietnamese

§Han character

慈 (từ)

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