wèi
comfort
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
Clerical script
Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 慰
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
to comfort | ||
to be gratified | ||
to express sympathy, greetings, consolation etc | ||
to comfort | ||
to console |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*ʔut-s | 'jw+jH | wèi | comfort, soothe (v.) |
Statistics
HSK level 5
Appears in 16.0820% of movies
1767th most common character in movies
1632nd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 15 |
Unicode | U+6170 |
Shuowen | “慰,安也。从心,尉聲。一曰恚怒也。” |
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