慈
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compassionate; gentle; merciful; kind; humane
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 13
- Radical
- 心 +10
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 慈
- Common rank
- #1,616
- Unicode
- U+6148
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Formation & memory
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Words with 慈
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| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 慈安太后 | Empress Dowager Ci'an (1837-1881) of Qing | |
| 慈福行动 | Operation Blessing (charitable relief organization) | |
| 慈利县 | Cili, a county in Zhangjiajie City 張家界市|张家界市[Zhang1 jia1 jie4 Shi4], Hunan | |
| 心慈手软 | (idiom) softhearted; merciful | |
| 慈江道 | Chagang province, in the north of North Korea | |
| 慈眉善眼 | see 慈眉善目[ci2 mei2 shan4 mu4] | |
| 慈善家 | philanthropist; humanitarian; charity donor | |
| 慈眉善目 | (idiom) kind-looking; benevolent-looking | |
| 慈悲为本 | mercy as the guiding principle (idiom); the Buddhist teaching that nothing is valid except… | |
| 家慈 | (polite) my mother | |
| 慈利 | see 慈利縣|慈利县[Ci2 li4 Xian4] | |
| 慈善机构 | charity | |
| 慈善组织 | charity organization | |
| 慈石 | variant of 磁石[ci2 shi2] | |
| 慈溪市 | Cixi, a county-level city in Ningbo City 寧波市|宁波市[Ning2 bo1 Shi4], Zhejiang | |
| 慈和 | kindly; amiable | |
| 慈爱 | love; devotion (to children); affection, esp. towards children | |
| 大慈恩寺 | Daci'en Buddhist temple in Xi'an | |
| 慈母 | warm, caring mother | |
| 子孝父慈 | see 父慈子孝[fu4 ci2 zi3 xiao4] |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 兹 — compare how they read.