huī
noun

Meanings

  1. 1 (used in 瑷珲) Aihui, a historic town in Heilongjiang
  2. 2 (reading hún) fine jade

Examples

瑷珲条约黑龙江瑷珲签订
Àihuī Tiáoyuē shì zài Hēilóngjiāng biān de Àihuī qiāndìng de.
The Treaty of Aigun was signed at Aihui on the Heilongjiang River.

Tips

history
Not used alone in modern Chinese. As huī it survives in the place name 瑷珲 (now Heihe), site of the 1858 Treaty of Aigun; an older reading hún means 'fine jade', fitting its jade radical.
register
Onomastic and classical only — found in the historical place name and old texts, not in everyday language.

Components

radical
wáng
jade
The left is the jade radical (the side form of ), fitting the older 'fine jade' sense; it is the indexing radical.
phonetic
jūn
army; here phonetic
The right side is the phonetic; its reading drifted from jūn to huī / hún, the same element seen in and .

Stroke Order

huī