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慰

慰

Translingual

Han character

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

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

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 慰

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (尉) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
尉 *quds, *qud
熨 *quds, *quns, *qud
慰 *quds
罻 *quds
犚 *quds
蔚 *quds, *qud
螱 *quds
褽 *quds
鳚 *quds

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *quds) : phonetic 尉 ‎(OC *quds, *qud) + semantic 心.

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 慰
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 影 (34)
Final (韻) 微 (21)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) III
Fanqie 於胃切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ʔʉiH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ʔʷɨiH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ʔiuəiH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ʔujH/
Li
Rong		 /ʔiuəiH/
Wang
Li		 /ĭwəiH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ʔwe̯iH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 wèi
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 慰
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 wèi
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ ʔjwɨjH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*ʔut-s/
English comfort, soothe (v.)

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 慰
Reading # 1/1
No. 12953
Phonetic
component		 尉
Rime
group		 隊
Rime
subdivision		 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 尉
Old
Chinese		 /*quds/

Definitions

慰

  1. to comfort; to console; to calm
  2. to be relieved; glad

Compounds

  • 勸慰／劝慰
  • 告慰 (gàowèi)
  • 大慰
  • 存慰
  • 安慰 (ānwèi)
  • 宣慰
  • 寬慰／宽慰
  • 弔慰

Japanese

Kanji

慰

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. consolation

Readings

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

慰 • ‎(wi)
Eumhun:

  • Sound (hangeul): 위 (revised: wi, McCune-Reischauer: wi, Yale: wi)
  • Name (hangeul): 위로할 위 (wirohal, wi)()
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Vietnamese

Han character

慰 (ủy, uý, ủi)

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