Chinese Notes

慈 cí

cí verb to be kind; to be charitable; to be benevolent
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: For example, in literary Chinese, 慈母多敗兒 'a mother who lavishes too much love on her children spoils them', from Han Feizi's Xian Xue (DCP 'C222'; Guoyu '慈' v; Kroll 2015 '慈' 1a, p. 64; Unihan '慈')
cí noun love
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: 慈 is synonymous with 爱 in this sense, especially the love of a father for their children; Etymology from Shuo Wen: 慈：愛也。 (Guoyu '慈' n 1; Kroll 2015 '慈' 2, p. 64; Sun 2006, loc. 1300)
cí noun compassionate mother
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: Used to address one's mother (Guoyu '慈' n 3)
cí noun a magnet
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: As a variant of 磁 (Guoyu '慈' n 4; Kroll 2015 '慈' 5, p. 64)
cí proper noun Ci
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Names , Concept: Surname 姓氏
Notes: (Guoyu '慈' n 5)

慈爱(慈愛) affection
令慈 Your esteemed mother (honorific)
慈眉善目 kind brows and pleasant eyes; amiable looking; benign-faced
慈霭(慈靄) kindly and amiable
慈善机构(慈善機構) charity
天慈 imperial kindness
慈父 a loving father
慈善 benevolent; charitable
慈悲为怀(慈悲為懷) to mave a merciful heart
慈和 kindly; amiable
父慈子孝 benevolent father, filial son; natural love between parents and children
孝慈 filial and kind
慈福行动(慈福行動) Operation Blessing (charitable relief organization)
仁慈 benevolent
慈母 a loving mother
慈眉善眼 kind brows, pleasant eyes; amiable looking; benign-faced
慈悲为本(慈悲為本) mercy as the guiding principle; the Buddhist teaching that nothing is valid except compassion
慈善抽奖(慈善抽獎) a raffle (for charity)
慈颜(慈顏) a kind face
慈善组织(慈善組織) charity organization
慈母多败儿(慈母多敗兒) a mother who lavishes too much love on her children spoils them
慈善会 charity
慈祥 kind; benevolent
贤淑仁慈(賢淑仁慈) a virtuous and benevolent woman
慈善家 philanthropist
严慈(嚴慈) strict and compassionate; strict as a father and tender as a mother
恩慈 bestowed kindness
先慈 deceased mother
慈姑 arrowhead
假慈悲 phoney mercy; sham benevolence; crocodile tears
慈幼 to loving children
家慈 (polite) my mother
慈石 magnetite
慈善事业(慈善事業) a charity
慈航殿 Guanyin Hall
慈悲 compassion; benevolence ; to resolve; to settle

Truncated for common words

慈惠 (慈惠) 宣慈惠和 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 文公 Lord Wen — count: 25
慈孝 (慈孝) 是以入則不慈孝父母 — Mozi 墨子, 卷二尚賢中 Book 2 - Exaltation of the Virtuous II — count: 20
慈仁 (慈仁) 給奪慈仁 — The Book of Rites 禮記, 《仲尼燕居》 Zhong-ni at Home at Ease — count: 20
慈铭 (慈銘) 李慈銘謂 — Book of Later Han 後漢書, 卷四十上班彪列傳 Volume 40a: Biography of Ban Biao 1 — count: 19
李慈 (李慈) 李慈銘謂 — Book of Later Han 後漢書, 卷四十上班彪列傳 Volume 40a: Biography of Ban Biao 1 — count: 19
慈民 (慈民) 不可使慈民 — Mozi 墨子, 卷九非儒下 Book 9 - Anti-Confucianism II — count: 5
宗慈 (宗慈) 宗慈 — Book of Later Han 後漢書, 卷六十七黨錮列傳 Volume 67: Biographies of Partisan Prohibitions — count: 5
父慈 (父慈) 父慈 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 隱公 Lord Yin — count: 5
姑慈 (姑慈) 姑慈婦聽 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 昭公 Lord Zhao — count: 4
公孙慈 (公孫慈) 公孫慈帥師會齊人 — Gongyang's Commentary on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋公羊傳, 僖公 Lord Xi — count: 3