cí
kind
Evolution
Bronze script
Late Warring States (~250 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 慈
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
benevolent | ||
benevolent | ||
gentle | ||
mercy | ||
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。” |
Sources
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