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Translingual
Han character
慈 (Kangxi radical 61, 心+9, 13 strokes, cangjie input 廿女戈心 (TVIP), four-corner 80333, composition ⿱兹心 or ⿱茲心)
Derived characters
References
- Kangxi Dictionary: page 397, character 25
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 10980
- Dae Jaweon: page 736, character 19
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2324, character 3
- Unihan data for U+6148
Chinese
| simp. and trad. |
慈 | |
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Glyph origin
Characters in the same phonetic series (兹) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *zɯ): phonetic 茲 (OC *ʔsɯ, *zɯ) + semantic 心 (“heart”).
Etymology
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m-dzə. Cognate with Burmese စာ (ca, “to sympathize with”) (Hill, 2019) and Tibetan མཛའ (mdza') (in མཛའ་བ (mdza' ba) etc.).
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- Cantonese
- Hakka
- Eastern Min (BUC): cṳ̀
- Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): zo2
- Southern Min
- Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): 6zy
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin: cí
- Zhuyin: ㄘˊ
- Tongyong Pinyin: cíh
- Wade–Giles: tzʻŭ2
- Yale: tsź
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tsyr
- Palladius: цы (cy)
- Sinological IPA (key): /t͡sʰz̩³⁵/
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
- Jyutping: ci4
- Yale: chìh
- Cantonese Pinyin: tsi4
- Guangdong Romanization: qi4
- Sinological IPA (key): /t͡sʰiː²¹/
- (Taishanese, Taicheng)
- Wiktionary: lhu3
- Sinological IPA (key): /ɬu²²/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
- Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chhṳ̀
- Hakka Romanization System: ciiˇ
- Hagfa Pinyim: ci2
- Sinological IPA: /t͡sʰɨ¹¹/
- (Hailu, incl. Zhudong)
- Hakka Romanization System: cii
- Sinological IPA: /t͡sʰɨ⁵⁵/
- (Meixian)
- Guangdong: ci2
- Sinological IPA: /t͡sʰz̩¹¹/
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
- Eastern Min
- Puxian Min
- (Putian)
- Pouseng Ping'ing: zo2
- Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: ceó
- Sinological IPA (key): /t͡so¹³/
- (Xianyou)
- Pouseng Ping'ing: zo2
- Sinological IPA (key): /t͡so²⁴/
- (Putian)
- Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chû
- Tâi-lô: tsû
- Phofsit Daibuun: zuu
- IPA (Xiamen, Taipei): /t͡su²⁴/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡su²³/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡su¹³/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chîr
- Tâi-lô: tsîr
- IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sɯ²⁴/
- (Teochew)
- Peng'im: ce5
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tshṳ̂
- Sinological IPA (key): /t͡sʰɯ⁵⁵/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
- Wu
- Middle Chinese: dzi
- Old Chinese
- (Baxter–Sagart): /*[N-ts]ə/
- (Zhengzhang): /*zɯ/
Definitions
慈
- (of someone older to someone younger) to love; to show affection to
- kind; charitable; benevolent
- (literary, honorific) mother
- a surname
Compounds
- 不慈
- 仁慈 (réncí)
- 令慈
- 先慈 (xiāncí)
- 八慈
- 割慈
- 嚴慈 / 严慈
- 大慈大悲 (dàcídàbēi)
- 大慈山
- 大慈岩 (Dàcíyán)
- 大發慈悲 / 大发慈悲 (dàfācíbēi)
- 天慈
- 孝子慈孫 / 孝子慈孙
- 孝慈
- 宅心仁慈
- 宣慈
- 宸慈
- 家慈 (jiācí)
- 寬慈 / 宽慈
- 尊慈
- 布慈
- 心慈 (xīncí)
- 心慈手軟 / 心慈手软 (xīncíshǒuruǎn)
- 心慈面軟 / 心慈面软
- 恩慈
- 慈仁
- 慈侍
- 慈保
- 慈儉 / 慈俭
- 慈兄
- 慈光
- 慈制
- 慈厚
- 慈命
- 慈和
- 慈善 (císhàn)
- 慈善事業 / 慈善事业
- 慈善家 (císhànjiā)
- 慈善機構 / 慈善机构 (císhàn jīgòu)
- 慈壼 / 慈壸
- 慈姑 (cígū)
- 慈孝
- 慈孫 / 慈孙
- 慈孫孝子 / 慈孙孝子
- 慈安太后
- 慈宥
- 慈容
- 慈宮 / 慈宫
- 慈寵 / 慈宠
- 慈帷
- 慈幃 / 慈帏
- 慈幼
- 慈幼局
- 慈心
- 慈忍
- 慈念
- 慈息
- 慈恤
- 慈恩
- 慈恕
- 慈恩宗
- 慈恩寺
- 慈恩題記 / 慈恩题记
- 慈悲 (cíbēi)
- 慈惠
- 慈悲殺人 / 慈悲杀人 (cíbēi shārén)
- 慈悲為懷 / 慈悲为怀
- 慈悲為本 / 慈悲为本
- 慈惻 / 慈恻
- 慈愍
- 慈愛 / 慈爱 (cí'ài)
- 慈愷 / 慈恺
- 慈慧
- 慈憐 / 慈怜
- 慈憫 / 慈悯
- 慈懿
- 慈故能勇
- 慈教
- 慈旨
- 慈明
- 慈明無雙 / 慈明无双
- 慈景
- 慈暉 / 慈晖
- 慈柔
- 慈武
- 慈母 (címǔ)
- 慈母服
- 慈氏 (Císhì)
- 慈淚 / 慈泪
- 慈渥
- 慈湖
- 慈溫 / 慈温
- 慈澤 / 慈泽
- 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
- 慈燈 / 慈灯
- 慈父 (cífù)
- 慈目
- 慈眄
- 慈眉善目 (címéishànmù)
- 慈眼
- 慈睦
- 慈石
- 慈祐 (Cíyòu)
- 慈祥 (cíxiáng)
- 慈禧太后 (Cíxǐ Tàihòu)
- 慈竹 (cízhú)
- 慈篤 / 慈笃
- 慈綸 / 慈纶
- 慈育
- 慈膝
- 慈臨 / 慈临
- 慈航
- 慈航普渡
- 慈良
- 慈色
- 慈菰
- 慈菇 (cígū)
- 慈萱
- 慈蔭 / 慈荫
- 慈藹 / 慈蔼
- 慈衷
- 慈親 / 慈亲
- 慈訓 / 慈训 (cíxùn)
- 慈誨 / 慈诲
- 慈謨 / 慈谟
- 慈讓 / 慈让
- 慈躬
- 慈造
- 慈闈 / 慈闱
- 慈隱 / 慈隐
- 慈雌
- 慈雨
- 慈雲 / 慈云
- 慈顏 / 慈颜
- 慈鴉 / 慈鸦
- 手滑心慈
- 敏練慈愷 / 敏练慈恺
- 敬老慈少
- 敬老慈幼
- 敬老慈稚
- 李慈銘 / 李慈铭
- 柔慈
- 母慈
- 母慈子孝
- 溫慈 / 温慈
- 濟慈 / 济慈 (Jìcí)
- 父慈子孝 (fùcízǐxiào)
- 皇慈
- 睿慈
- 矜慈
- 祝孝嘏慈
- 等慈
- 聖慈 / 圣慈
- 臉軟心慈 / 脸软心慈
- 葉慈 / 叶慈 (Yècí)
- 親慈 / 亲慈
- 酒慈
- 重慈
- 鈞慈 / 钧慈
- 頂禮慈雲 / 顶礼慈云
- 順慈 / 顺慈
- 鴻慈 / 鸿慈
References
- “慈”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
- 莆田市政协文化文史和学习委员会 [Culture, History and Learning Committee of Putian CPPCC], editor (2021), “慈”, in 莆仙方言大词典 [Comprehensive Dictionary of Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 591.
Japanese
Kanji
慈
- mercy
Readings
Compounds
Korean
Hanja
慈 • (ja) (hangeul 자, revised ja, McCune–Reischauer cha, Yale ca)
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Vietnamese
Han character
- chữ Hán form of từ (“maitrī, benevolence, loving-kindness”)