1. 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')
  2. 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)
  3. noun compassionate mother
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: Used to address one's mother (Guoyu '慈' n 3)
  4. 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)
  5. proper noun Ci
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Names , Concept: Surname 姓氏
    Notes: (Guoyu '慈' n 5)
  6. verb Kindness
    Domain: Buddhism 佛教 , Subdomain: Fo Guang Shan
    Notes: (Glossary of Humanistic Buddhism)
  7. noun loving-kindness; maitri
    Domain: Buddhism 佛教
    Notes: Sanskrit equivalent: maitrī, Pali: mettā, Japanese: ji, Tibetan: byams pa (BCSD '慈', p. 497; BL 'maitrī'; Kroll 2015 '慈' 1, p. 64; Mahāvyutpatti 'maitrī'; MW 'maitrī'; SH '慈', p. 399; Tzu Chuang 2012)

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