怀

huái
verb #3,109

Meanings

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

Examples

HSK 3
Wǒ hěn huáiniàn dàxué de rìzi.
I miss my college days.
HSK 3
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