惠
huìHuì HSK5

favor

Original meaning: benevolence

Phonosemantic compound. 心 represents the meaning and 叀 represents the sound.

Components

叀
叀 Sound component
zhuān, huì spinning wheel
心
心 Meaning component
xīn, xin heart

Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Mid Western Zhou ~900 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Mid Spring and Autumn ~600 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Late Spring and Autumn ~500 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Late Spring and Autumn ~500 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Late Warring States ~250 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Qin 221-206 BC
Regular Modern

Component uses

Sound (0 of 3 verified)

穗蕙蟪

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagarthwejH[ɢ]ʷˤi[j]-s kind, good

說文解字

《說文》：“惠，仁也。从心，从叀。，古文惠从芔。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)