huì / guì
noun #58,439

Meanings

  1. 1 used in the name Qin Hui

Examples

Qín Huì shì Nánsòng yǒumíng de jiānchén.
Qin Hui was a notorious treacherous minister of the Southern Song.
Rénmen zhìjīn réng tuòmà Yuèfēi mù qián de Qín Huì xiàng.
People still spit on the statue of Qin Hui at Yue Fei's tomb.

Tips

history
The huì reading appears almost only in , the Southern Song chancellor blamed for the death of the general 岳飞. His name became a byword for treachery. For the juniper tree the same character is read guì.

Components

radical
wood; tree
The wood radical on the left, marking as a kind of tree, here the evergreen Chinese juniper.
phonetic
huì
to meet; able to; can
Supplies the sound. Standalone is huì, which matches the personal-name reading directly and is close to the tree reading guì.

Stroke Order

huì