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(huái) - embrace; bear in mind in Mandarin

huái

Traditional: 怀

Line drawing of 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

Stroke order for 怀

怀

Examples

I suspect he is lying.

Please do not doubt me.

She misses the old days.

Mum is holding the child in her arms.

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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This word is part of lesson 108.