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See also: and 怀

Translingual

Traditional
Shinjitai
Simplified 怀

Han character

(radical 61 +16, 19 strokes, cangjie input 心卜田女 (PYWV), four-corner 94032, composition)

References

  • KangXi: page 408, character 17
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11456
  • Dae Jaweon: page 749, character 15
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2369, character 10
  • Unihan data for U+61F7

Chinese

trad.
simp. 怀

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*kuːl
*kuːl, *ɡruːl
*ɡruːl, *ɡruːl
*ɡruːl
*ɡruːl
*ɡruːls
*ɡruːls

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ɡruːl) : semantic  (heart) + phonetic  (OC *ɡruːl, *ɡruːl).

Pronunciation



  • Dialectal data
Variety Location
Mandarin Beijing /xuai³⁵/
Harbin /xuai²⁴/
Tianjin /xuai⁴⁵/
Jinan /xuɛ²¹/
Qingdao /xuɛ⁴²/
Zhengzhou /xuai⁴²/
Xi'an /xuai²⁴/
Xining /xuɛ²⁴/
Yinchuan /xuɛ⁵³/
Lanzhou /xuɛ⁵³/
Ürümqi /xuai⁵¹/
Wuhan /xuai²¹³/
Chengdu /xuai³¹/
Guiyang /xuai²¹/
Kunming /xuæ³¹/
Nanjing /xuae²⁴/
Hefei /xue̞⁵⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /xuai¹¹/
Pingyao /xuæ¹³/
Hohhot /kuɛ³¹/
Wu Shanghai /ɦua²³/
/ɦue²³/
Suzhou /ɦue̞¹³/
Hangzhou /ɦue̞²¹³/
Wenzhou /va³¹/
Hui Shexian /xua⁴⁴/
Tunxi /xua⁴⁴/
Xiang Changsha /fai¹³/
Xiangtan /ɸai¹²/
Gan Nanchang /uai⁴⁵/ ~裡
/fai⁴⁵/
Hakka Meixian /fai¹¹/
Taoyuan /fɑi¹¹/
Cantonese Guangzhou /wai²¹/
Nanning /wai²¹/
Hong Kong /wai²¹/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /huai³⁵/
/kui³⁵/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /huai⁵³/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /uai²¹/
Shantou (Min Nan) /huai⁵⁵/
Haikou (Min Nan) /huai³¹/
/hɔi³¹/

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (33)
Final () (34)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division () II
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ɦˠuɛi/
Pan
Wuyun
/ɦʷᵚæi/
Shao
Rongfen
/ɣuɐi/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ɦwəɨj/
Li
Rong
/ɣuɛi/
Wang
Li
/ɣwɐi/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ɣwăi/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
huái
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
huái
Middle
Chinese
‹ hwɛj ›
Old
Chinese
/*[ɡ]ˤruj/
English bosom; embrace

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. 5341
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ɡruːl/

Definitions

  1. bosom; breast
  2. (figuratively) heart; mind; affection
  3. to carry in bosom or on one's body; to be pregnant; to conceive (a child)
    / 怀   huáitāi   to carry a child in a womb
  4. to harbor in one's mind; to keep in mind
  5. to think of; to cherish; to tend to
  6. to miss; to long for
  7. A surname.

Compounds


Japanese

Kanji

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form )

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Readings

  • On: かい (kai)
  • Kun: なつく (natsuku), ふところ (futokoro)

Korean

Hanja

(hoe) (hangeul , revised hoe, McCune-Reischauer hoe, Yale hoy)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(hoài)

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