怀

懷
huái
verb HSK 6 #3,109

Meanings

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

Examples

HSK 2
Tā huáizhe xīwàng.
She harbors hope.
HSK 5
Wǒ hěn huáiniàn dàxué de rìzi.
I miss my college days.

Tips

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

Components

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

Stroke Order

怀 huái