慈

慈	U+6148, 慈 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6148

慈	U+2F8A6, 慈 CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-2F8A6

← 惇
[U+2F8A5]

CJK Compatibility Ideographs Supplement

慌 →
[U+2F8A7]

Translingual

Han character

慈 (Kangxi radical 61, 心+9, 13 strokes, cangjie input 廿女戈心 (TVIP), four-corner 8033₃, composition ⿱兹心 or ⿱茲心)

Derived characters

㘂, 嬨, 𫻌, 𢶴, 濨, 𪴆, 礠, 𥣓, 𫃕, 䗹, 𬣐, 𨭨, 𩉋, 𩼰, 𪇔, 𬞧, 𥴺

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 397, character 25
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 10980
Dae Jaweon: page 736, character 19
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2324, character 3
Unihan data for U+6148

Unihan data for U+2F8A6

Chinese

simp. and trad.		慈

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (兹) (Zhengzhang, 2003)

	Old Chinese
糍	*zi
茲	ʔsɯ, zɯ
滋	*ʔsɯ
孳	ʔsɯ, zɯs
嵫	*ʔsɯ
嗞	*ʔsɯ
鎡	*ʔsɯ
鰦	*ʔsɯ
鶿	ʔsɯ, zɯ
稵	ʔsɯ, ʔsɯw
螆	*sʰɯs
慈	*zɯ
鷀	*zɯ
磁	*zɯ
礠	*zlɯ
濨	*zlɯ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *zɯ) : phonetic 茲 (OC *ʔsɯ, *zɯ) + semantic 心 (“heart”).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): cí (ci²)

(Zhuyin): ㄘˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): ci⁴
Hakka
(Sixian, PFS): chhṳ̀

(Hailu, HRS): cii
Eastern Min (BUC): cṳ̀
Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): zo²
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): chû / chîr

(Teochew, Peng'im): ce⁵
Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁶zy

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: cí
  - Zhuyin: ㄘˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: cíh
  - Wade–Giles: tzʻŭ²
  - Yale: tsź
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tsyr
  - Palladius: цы (cy)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰz̩³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: ci⁴
  - Yale: chìh
  - Cantonese Pinyin: tsi⁴
  - Guangdong Romanization: qi⁴
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰiː²¹/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chhṳ̀
  - Hakka Romanization System: cii^ˇ
  - Hagfa Pinyim: ci²
  - Sinological IPA: /t͡sʰɨ¹¹/
- (Hailu, incl. Zhudong)
  - Hakka Romanization System: cii
  - Sinological IPA: /t͡sʰɨ⁵⁵/
Eastern Min
- (Fuzhou)
  - Bàng-uâ-cê: cṳ̀
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sy⁵³/
Puxian Min
- (Putian)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: zo²
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡so¹³/
- (Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: zo²
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sɵ¹³/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chû
  - Tâi-lô: tsû
  - Phofsit Daibuun: zuu
  - IPA (Xiamen, Taipei): /t͡su²⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡su²³/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡su¹³/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chîr
  - Tâi-lô: tsîr
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sɯ²⁴/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: ce⁵
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tshṳ̂
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰɯ⁵⁵/
Wu
- (Northern: Shanghai)
  - Wugniu: ⁶zy
  - MiniDict: zy^去
  - Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ³zr
  - Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /zz̩²³/

Middle Chinese: dzi

Rime
Character	慈
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	從 (15)
Final (韻)	之 (19)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	疾之切
Baxter	dzi
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/d͡zɨ/
Pan Wuyun	/d͡zɨ/
Shao Rongfen	/d͡zie/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/d͡zɨ/
Li Rong	/d͡ziə/
Wang Li	/d͡zĭə/
Bernhard Karlgren	/d͡zʱi/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	cí
Expected Cantonese Reflex	ci⁴

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*[N-ts]ə/

(Zhengzhang): /*zɯ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	慈
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	cí
Middle Chinese	‹ dzi ›
Old Chinese	/*[N-ts]ə/
English	loving, kind
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. [t] as coda may in fact be -t or -p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	慈
Reading #	1/1
No.	17845
Phonetic component	兹
Rime group	之
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	慈
Old Chinese	/*zɯ/

Definitions

慈

(of someone older to someone younger) to love; to show affection to
kind; charitable; benevolent
(literary, honorific) mother
a surname

Compounds

References

“慈”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
莆田市政协文化文史和学习委员会 [Culture, History and Learning Committee of Putian CPPCC], editor (2021), “慈”, in 莆仙方言大词典 [Comprehensive Dictionary of Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 591.

Japanese

Kanji

慈

(Jōyō kanji)

mercy

Readings

Go-on: じ (ji, Jōyō)
Kan-on: し (shi)
Kun: いつくしむ (itsukushimu, 慈しむ, Jōyō)、いつくしみ (itsukushimi)

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

慈 • (ja) (hangeul 자, revised ja, McCune–Reischauer cha, Yale ca)

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Vietnamese

Han character

慈: Hán Nôm readings: từ

chữ Hán form of từ (“maitrī, benevolence, loving-kindness”).