慈

慈 U+6148, 慈 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6148 ← 慇 [U+6147] CJK Unified Ideographs 慉 → [U+6149]

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, 䗹, 礠

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

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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
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): chû / chîr

  (Teochew, Peng'im): ce⁵

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• 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/
• 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/

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• 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/
Bernard 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

(deprecated template usage) 慈

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

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Japanese

Kanji

慈

(Jōyō kanji)

1. 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

• 慈鳥(じちょう) (jichō): crow, raven

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

慈: Hán Nôm readings: từ

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