Chinese Character Wiki
怀

huái

bosom, embrace

Phonosemantic compound. 忄 represents the meaning and 褱 represents the sound. Simplified form of 懷.

Components
忄 meaning component

忄  Meaning component

xin, xīn

  

heart

忄 is a component form of 心.

不 simplified component

不  Simplified component

bù

  

no

Shorthand for the phonetic 褱 component in the traditional character 懷.

Evolution

怀 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
怀 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
怀 Clerical script Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)

Clerical script

Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)
怀 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
怀 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

怀 (懷) 

huái

bosom, breast; carry in bosom; bosom; heart; mind; to think of; to harbor in one's mind; to conceive (a child)

怀 (懷) 

Huái

surname Huai

Most common words with 怀
Freq.
Word
Meaning

怀疑

to doubt (sth)

怀孕

pregnant

怀

bosom

怀念

to think of

关怀

care

Statistics

HSK level 4

Appears in 58.2412% of movies

704th most common character in movies

762nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

7

Traditional

懷

Unicode

U+6000


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