惠
Meanings
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- 1.surname Hui
- 1.(bound form) act of kindness (from a superior)
- 2.(honorific prefix) kind (as in 惠顾[huì gù])
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Wiktionary
- 1.benefit; favor; advantage
- 2.to benefit; to grant a favor; favor; to advantage
- 3.to love
- 4.benevolent; kindhearted
- 5.mild; gentle; kind
- 6.used as a form of compliment
- 7.a surname, Hui
- 8.a surname: Xi
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Etymology
Ideogrammic compound (會意 /会意) and phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *ɢʷiːds): phonetic 叀 + semantic 心 (“heart”). Originally also written 叀. Related to 唯 (OC *ɢʷi, “to be”). Its usual meaning "kind, compliant" could be semantically extended from "should be" > "to consider / treat as it should / ought to be, as expected" as copulas tend to expand into full verb (Schuessler, 2007). For pronunciation 2, compare the development of the pronunciation of 畦 (qí) from 畦 (MC hwej), which historically differed with 惠 (MC hwejH) only in tone, and is homophonous with 惠 (/ɕi⁵⁵/) in the modern Xi'an dialect (Xi, 2017).
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Components
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Example sentences
如用現金付款，我們給予九折優惠。
We give a 10% discount for cash.
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