怀

huái
verb #3,109

Meanings

  1. 1 bosom
  2. 2 to think of
  3. 3 to harbor

Examples

Wǒ hěn huáiniàn dàxué de rìzi.
I miss my college days.
Tā huáizhe xīwàng.
She harbors hope.

Tips

usage
Common in 怀念 (huáiniàn, to miss) and 怀疑 (huáiyí, to suspect).

Components

radical
xīn
heart (radical form)
Left heart radical, the side-form of . Marks 怀 as a mental/emotional character: cherishing, missing, harboring thoughts, being pregnant with a feeling. Same radical anchors (fear), (slow), (happy/quick), (busy).
phonetic
not (graphic only)
Right side looks like but is the simplified residue of traditional , where the right was (a robe wrapping items). PRC simplification flattened that complex element to purely on graphic grounds - the here has no semantic role and the original phonetic link to huái is preserved only by convention.

Stroke Order

怀 huái