慰 — Chinese character
慰
wèi
to calm, to comfort, to reassure
- Pinyin
- wèi
- Radical
- 61 ⼼ (Heart)
- Strokes
- 15
- Components
- 尉 心
- Formation
- pictophonetic — heart; meaning component 心; sound component 尉
- Japanese
- 慰 as a kanji
Common words with 慰
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 安慰 | ān wèi | to comfort; to console |
| 自慰 | zì wèi | to console oneself; to masturbate |
| 慰问 (慰問) | wèi wèn | to express sympathy, greetings, consolation etc |
| 欣慰 | xīn wèi | to be gratified |
| 慰安妇 (慰安婦) | wèi ān fù | comfort woman (woman or girl forced into sex slavery by the Japanese military 1937-1945) (orthographic borrowing from Japanese 慰安婦 "ianfu") |
| 抚慰 (撫慰) | fǔ wèi | to console; to comfort |
| 慰藉 | wèi jiè | to console; to comfort |
| 宽慰 (寬慰) | kuān wèi | to console; to soothe |
| 自我安慰 | zì wǒ ān wèi | to comfort oneself; to console oneself |
| 慰劳 (慰勞) | wèi láo | to show appreciation (by kind words, small gifts etc); to comfort |
| 安慰剂 (安慰劑) | ān wèi jì | placebo |
| 告慰 | gào wèi | to comfort; to console |
English words written with 慰
慰 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Zhuangzi 4
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.
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