(huái) - embrace; bear in mind in Mandarin
huáiTraditional: 怀
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Translation
embrace; bear in mind
Word origin
A phono-semantic character (traditional 懷): the heart radical 忄conveys feeling and keeping something in mind, with the right element supplying the sound; it means bosom, to embrace or to bear in mind.
- Origin
- phono-semantic
- Root
- 忄 (heart radical) + phonetic element
Stroke order
怀
Examples
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I suspect he is lying.
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Please do not doubt me.
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She misses the old days.
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Mum is holding the child in her arms.
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He carries hope in his heart.
怀 (huái) means embrace or hold in mind. It combines with 疑 in 怀疑 (huái yí), to doubt.
Appears in 2 words
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 怀.
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