Chinese Character Wiki

慈

cí

kind

Components
兹 sound component

兹  Sound component

zī

  

now

心 meaning component

心  Meaning component

xīn

  

heart

heart

Evolution

慈 Bronze script Late Warring States (~250 BC)

Bronze script

Late Warring States (~250 BC)
慈 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)
慈 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

慈  

cí

kind, charitable, benevolent; compassionate; gentle; merciful; kind; humane

Most common words with 慈
Freq.
Word
Meaning

慈善

benevolent

仁慈

benevolent

慈

gentle

慈悲

mercy

慈禧

Empress Dowager Cixi or Ts'u Hsi (reigned 1861-1908)

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[N-ts]ə

dzi

cí

loving, kind


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 15.8738% of movies

1479th most common character in movies

1487th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Unicode

U+6148

Shuowen

“慈，愛也。从心，茲聲。”


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