徽 (huī): badge; emblem; insignia; crest

Meanings

1 badge; emblem; insignia; crest
2 logo; coat of arms
3 short for Anhui Province (安徽)

Characters

徽

huī

badge; emblem; crest

Examples

运动员的胸前印着国家的徽章。

Yùndòngyuán de xiōngqián yìn zhe guójiā de huīzhāng.

The athlete's chest bore the national emblem.

安徽省简称「皖」，但也常用「徽」字代表。

Ānhuī Shěng jiǎnchēng " Wǎn ", dàn yě chángyòng " huī " zì dàibiǎo.

Anhui Province is abbreviated as 'Wan', but the character 'hui' is also commonly used to represent it.

Tips

culture

徽 appears in 安徽 (Anhui province) and 徽派 (Huizhou-style architecture), known for its white-walled, black-roofed buildings. 徽菜 (Huizhou cuisine) is one of the eight major Chinese culinary traditions.

Components

radical

彳 chì

step radical

Left step radical — the indexing radical, pictures the left half of a crossroads, the act of taking small steps. Anchors 徽 in a motion/progress family with 行, 往, 待, 律. Here the radical marks the original sense of a banner or insignia displayed while moving along — emblems carried in procession.

semantic

山 shān

mountain

Mid-upper 山 contributes meaning, evoking elevation and prominence. An emblem 徽 was something raised high, displayed prominently like a peak — the visual logic of insignia worn on the chest, banners hoisted aloft, badges showing rank. Also reads as the Huizhou region's signature mountain landscape.

semantic

系 xì

tie; thread

Middle 系 contributes the sense of binding with cord — an emblem was a thing tied on, fastened to clothing or a pole. Pictures a hand twisting silk threads; here it captures how badges and insignia are physically attached, the cord-and-thread craft of heraldic display.

semantic

攵 pū

tap radical (variant of 攴)

Right tap radical — pictures a hand holding a stick, the gesture of action or making. Contributes the 'doing' sense: an emblem is something made and applied. The same radical powers 改 'to alter', 政 'government', 教 'to teach' — verbs of active intervention in the world.