慈

慈 U+6148, 慈 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6148 ← 慇 [U+6147] CJK Unified Ideographs 慉 → [U+6149]

Translingual

Han character

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

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

simp. and trad.		慈

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (兹) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
糍	*zi
茲	*ʔsɯ, *zɯ
滋	*ʔsɯ
孳	*ʔsɯ, *zɯs
嵫	*ʔsɯ
嗞	*ʔsɯ
鎡	*ʔsɯ
鰦	*ʔsɯ
鶿	*ʔsɯ, *zɯ
稵	*ʔsɯ, *ʔsɯw
螆	*sʰɯs
慈	*zɯ
鷀	*zɯ
磁	*zɯ
礠	*zlɯ
濨	*zlɯ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): cí (ci²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄘˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ci⁴
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): chhṳ̀
• Min Nan (POJ): chû / chîr

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: cí
    • Zhuyin: ㄘˊ
    • Wade–Giles: tz'u²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tsy
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰz̩³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: ci⁴
    • Yale: chìh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsi⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: qi⁴
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰiː²¹/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chhṳ̀
    • Hakka Romanization System: ciiˇ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: ci²
    • IPA: /t͡sʰɨ¹¹/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: mainstream Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chû
    • Tâi-lô: tsû
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zuu
    • IPA (Taipei, Xiamen): /t͡su²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡su¹³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡su²³/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chîr
    • Tâi-lô: tsîr
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sɯ²⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: /d͡zɨ/▼

Rime
Character	慈
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	從 (15)
Final (韻)	之 (19)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	疾之切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/d͡zɨ/
Pan Wuyun	/d͡zɨ/
Shao Rongfen	/d͡zie/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/d͡zɨ/
Li Rong	/d͡ziə/
Wang Li	/d͡zĭə/
Bernard Karlgren	/d͡zʱi/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	cí

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[N-ts]ə/

  (Zhengzhang): /*zɯ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	慈
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	cí
Middle Chinese	‹ dzi ›
Old Chinese	/*[N-ts]ə/
English	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	慈
Reading #	1/1
No.	17845
Phonetic component	兹
Rime group	之
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	慈
Old Chinese	/*zɯ/

Definitions

慈

1. kind, charitable, benevolent

Compounds

• 仁慈 (réncí)
• 令慈
• 先慈
• 大慈大悲
• 大發慈悲／大发慈悲
• 孝子慈孫／孝子慈孙
• 孝慈
• 宅心仁慈
• 家慈
• 布慈
• 心慈面軟／心慈面软
• 慈制
• 慈命
• 慈和
• 慈善 (císhàn)
• 慈善事業／慈善事业
• 慈善家
• 慈善機構／慈善机构 (císhàn jīgòu)
• 慈姑 (cígū)
• 慈孫孝子／慈孙孝子
• 慈安太后

• 慈幃／慈帏
• 慈幼
• 慈心
• 慈恩宗
• 慈恩寺
• 慈悲 (cíbēi)
• 慈悲殺人／慈悲杀人
• 慈悲為懷／慈悲为怀
• 慈悲為本／慈悲为本
• 慈愛／慈爱 (cí'ài)
• 慈憫／慈悯
• 慈故能勇
• 慈暉／慈晖
• 慈母 (címǔ)
• 慈湖
• 慈濟大學／慈济大学
• 慈烏／慈乌 (cíwū)
• 慈烏反哺／慈乌反哺
• 慈烏返哺／慈乌返哺
• 慈父
• 慈眉善目

• 慈石
• 慈祥 (cíxiáng)
• 慈禧太后 (Cíxǐ Tàihòu)
• 慈竹
• 慈航
• 慈航普渡
• 慈菇
• 慈藹／慈蔼
• 慈訓／慈训
• 慈誨／慈诲
• 慈雲／慈云
• 慈顏／慈颜
• 手滑心慈
• 敏練慈愷／敏练慈恺
• 敬老慈幼
• 李慈銘／李慈铭
• 母慈子孝
• 濟慈／济慈 (Jìcí)
• 父慈子孝
• 臉軟心慈／脸软心慈
• 葉慈／叶慈 (Yècí)

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Japanese

Kanji

慈

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. mercy

Readings

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

Compounds

• 慈 (じ)鳥 (ちょう) (jichō): crow, raven

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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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