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Translingual

Han character

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

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

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*zi
*ʔsɯ, *zɯ
*ʔsɯ
*ʔsɯ, *zɯs
*ʔsɯ
*ʔsɯ
*ʔsɯ
*ʔsɯ
鶿 *ʔsɯ, *zɯ
*ʔsɯ, *ʔsɯw
*sʰɯs
*zɯ
*zɯ
*zɯ
*zlɯ
*zlɯ

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (15)
Final () (19)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
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
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
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
Reading # 1/1
No. 17845
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*zɯ/

Definitions

  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
  • 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
  • 慈竹
  • 慈航
  • 慈航普渡
  • 慈菇 (cígū)
  • 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
  • 父慈子孝
  • 臉軟心慈脸软心慈
  • 葉慈叶慈

Japanese

Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. mercy

Readings

Compounds


Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

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