慰

慰	U+6170, 慰 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6170

← 慯
[U+616F]

CJK Unified Ideographs

慱 →
[U+6171]

Translingual

Han character

慰 (radical 61, 心+11, 15 strokes, cangjie input 尸戈心 (SIP) or X尸戈心 (XSIP), four-corner 7433₀, composition ⿱尉心)

References

KangXi: page 400, character 3

Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11135

Dae Jaweon: page 739, character 23

Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2343, character 15

Unihan data for U+6170

Chinese

simp. and trad.		慰

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (尉) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
尉	quds, qud
熨	quds, quns, *qud
慰	*quds
罻	*quds
犚	*quds
蔚	quds, qud
螱	*quds
褽	*quds
鳚

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *quds) : phonetic 尉 (OC *quds, *qud) + semantic 心.

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): wèi (wei⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄨㄟˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): wai³
Hakka (Sixian, PFS): vi
Min Nan
(Hokkien, POJ): ùi / ùiⁿ

(Teochew, Peng'im): uê³

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: wèi
  - Zhuyin: ㄨㄟˋ
  - Wade–Giles: wei⁴
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: wey
  - IPA ^(key): /u̯eɪ̯⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: wai³
  - Yale: wai
  - Cantonese Pinyin: wai³
  - Guangdong Romanization: wei³
  - IPA ^(key): /wɐi̯³³/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: vi
  - Hakka Romanization System: vi
  - Hagfa Pinyim: vi⁴
  - IPA: /vi⁵⁵/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou, General Taiwanese, Xiamen)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ùi
  - Tâi-lô: uì
  - Phofsit Daibuun: uix
  - IPA (Taipei): /ui¹¹/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung, Xiamen): /ui²¹/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /ui⁴¹/
- (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ùiⁿ
  - Tâi-lô: uìnn
  - Phofsit Daibuun: vuix
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /uĩ²¹/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: uê³
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: uè
  - IPA ^(key): /ue²¹³/

Middle Chinese: /ʔʉi^H/▼

Rime
Character	慰
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	影 (34)
Final (韻)	微 (21)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	於胃切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʔʉi^H/
Pan Wuyun	/ʔʷɨi^H/
Shao Rongfen	/ʔiuəi^H/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʔuj^H/
Li Rong	/ʔiuəi^H/
Wang Li	/ĭwəi^H/
Bernard Karlgren	/ʔwe̯i^H/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	wèi

Old Chinese▼
(Baxter–Sagart): /*ʔut-s/

(Zhengzhang): /*quds/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	慰
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	wèi
Middle Chinese	‹ ʔjwɨj^H ›
Old Chinese	/*ʔut-s/
English	comfort, soothe (v.)
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	慰
Reading #	1/1
No.	12953
Phonetic component	尉
Rime group	隊
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	尉
Old Chinese	/*quds/

Definitions

慰

to comfort; to console; to calm
to be relieved; glad

Compounds

勸慰／劝慰 (quànwèi)
告慰 (gàowèi)
大慰
存慰
安慰 (ānwèi)
宣慰
寬慰／宽慰 (kuānwèi)
弔慰／吊慰 (diàowèi)

快慰 (kuàiwèi)
慰勉 (wèimiǎn)
慰勞／慰劳 (wèiláo)
慰唁
慰問／慰问 (wèiwèn)
慰問金／慰问金
慰安 (wèi'ān)
慰安婦／慰安妇 (wèi'ānfù)

慰情勝無／慰情胜无
慰留
慰藉 (wèijiè)
撫慰／抚慰 (fǔwèi)
欣慰 (xīnwèi)
聊以自慰
自慰 (zìwèi)
解慰

Japanese

Kanji

慰

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

consolation

Readings

Go-on: い (i, Jōyō)^{←ゐ (wi, historical)}
Kan-on: い (i, Jōyō)^{←ゐ (wi, historical)}
Kun: なぐさ (nagusa, 慰); なぐさむ (nagusamu, 慰む, Jōyō); なぐさみ (nagusami, 慰み); なぐさめる (nagusameru, 慰める, Jōyō); なぐさめ (nagusame, 慰); なぐさめ (nagusame, 慰め)

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
慰
い Grade: S
on’yomi

/wi/ → /i/

From Middle Chinese 慰 (MC ʔʉi^H).

Pronunciation

On’yomi
- IPA^(key): [i]

Affix

慰 (hiragana い, rōmaji i, historical hiragana ゐ)

comfort; console

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
慰
なぐさ Grade: S
kun’yomi

For pronunciation and definitions of 慰 – see なぐさ. (This term, 慰, is a kanji spelling of なぐさ.)

Korean

Hanja

慰 • (wi)

Eumhun:
- Sound (hangeul): 위 (revised: wi, McCune–Reischauer: wi, Yale: wi)
- Name (hangeul): 위로할 위 (wirohal, wi)

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Vietnamese

Han character

慰 (ủy, uý, ủi)

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