Meaning & readings
favor, blessing, grace, kindness
Origin
This character combines the heart radical on the left, which represents feelings and emotions, with a component on the right that originally depicted grain or abundance. The image of a full heart connected to plenty or bounty naturally came to mean favor, blessing, or kindness — the idea of generously giving to others from a place of abundance. Over time, the right side became more abstract, but the core meaning stayed: the emotional quality of giving graciously and receiving blessings from someone's goodness.
AI-generated (claude-haiku-4-5), not yet reviewed. Formation type (automated guess): Pictographic or simple.
Components
This character is treated as a single, undivided shape (恵).
Common words
Reference
- Strokes
- 10
- Kangxi radical
- 61
- Grade
- Jōyō (secondary school)
- Frequency rank
- #925 (newspapers)
- Former JLPT
- level 2
- Unicode
- U+06075