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惠

huì

favor

Original meaning: 

benevolence

Phonosemantic compound. 心 represents the meaning and 叀 represents the sound.

Components
叀 sound component

叀  Sound component

zhuān

  

spinning wheel

心 meaning component

心  Meaning component

xīn

  

heart

Evolution

惠 Bronze script Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)

Bronze script

Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
惠 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
惠 Clerical script Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)

Clerical script

Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)
惠 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

惠  

huì

favor, benefit, confer kindness; favor; benefit; to bestow; (literary) benevolence; (honorific)

惠  

Huì

surname Hui

Most common words with 惠
Freq.
Word
Meaning

优惠

privilege

惠

favor

优惠券

coupon

实惠

cheap

恩惠

favor

Component uses

Sound component in 3 characters (0 verified)

穗 蕙 蟪

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[ɢ]ʷˤi[j]-s

hwejH

huì

kind, good


Statistics

HSK level 5

Appears in 8.0730% of movies

1915th most common character in movies

1524th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Unicode

U+60E0

Shuowen

“惠，仁也。从心，从叀。，古文惠从芔。”


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