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懷

huái

bosom, embrace

Phonosemantic compound. 忄 represents the meaning and 褱 represents the sound.

Components
忄 meaning component

忄  Meaning component

xin, xīn

  

heart

忄 is a component form of 心.

褱 sound component

褱  Sound component

huái

  

to carry in the bosom or the sleeve

Evolution

懷 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

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

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular 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 懷
Freq.
Word
Meaning

怀疑

to doubt (sth)

怀孕

pregnant

怀

bosom

怀念

to think of

关怀

care

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[g]ˤruj

hweaj

huái

bosom; embrace


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 58.2412% of movies

704th most common character in movies

762nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

19

Simplified

怀

Unicode

U+61F7

Shuowen

“懷，念思也。从心，褱聲。”


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