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慈

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

慈 U+2F8A6, 慈
CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-2F8A6
← 惇
[U+2F8A5] 		CJK Compatibility Ideographs Supplement 慌 →
[U+2F8A7]

Translingual

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Han character

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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

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Additional Derived Characters

References

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  • 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

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simp. and trad.
 慈

Glyph origin

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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

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *zɯ): phonetic 茲 (OC *ʔsɯ, *zɯ) + semantic 心 (“heart”).

Etymology

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From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *mV-dzə. Cognate with Burmese စာ (ca, “to sympathize with”) (Hill, 2019) and Tibetan མཛའ (mdza') (in མཛའ་བ (mdza' ba) etc.).

Pronunciation

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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
Baxter dzi
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/d͡zɨ/
Pan
Wuyun 		/d͡zɨ/
Shao
Rongfen 		/d͡zie/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/d͡zɨ/
Li
Rong 		/d͡ziə/
Wang
Li 		/d͡zĭə/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/d͡zʱi/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		cí
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		ci4
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

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慈

  1. (of someone older to someone younger) to love; to show affection to
  2. kind; charitable; benevolent
  3. (literary, honorific) mother
  4. a surname

Compounds

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References

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  • “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

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Kanji

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慈

(Jōyō kanji)

  1. mercy
  2. (Buddhism) metta (lovingkindness)

Readings

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  • Go-on: 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

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Korean

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Etymology

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From Middle Chinese 慈 (MC dzi).

Historical readings

Hanja

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慈 (eumhun 사랑할 자 (saranghal ja))

  1. hanja form? of 자 (“mercy”)

Compounds

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Vietnamese

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Han character

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慈: Hán Nôm readings: từ

  1. chữ Hán form of từ (“maitrī, benevolence, loving-kindness”)
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