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

References

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, OC *zɯ) : phonetic 茲 (OC *ʔsɯ, *zɯ) + semantic 心 (“heart”).

Pronunciation

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
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
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

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

Compounds
Derived terms from 慈

Japanese

Kanji
慈

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. mercy

Readings

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

慈: Hán Nôm readings: từ

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