huì

teach

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
言 meaning component

  Meaning component

yán

  

speech

每 sound component

  Sound component

měi

  

every

Evolution

誨 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
誨 Bronze script Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)

Bronze script

Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
誨 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
誨 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
誨 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

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huì

teach, instruct; encourage, urge; to teach; to instruct; to induce

Most common words with 誨
Freq.
Word
Meaning

教诲

to instruct

to teach

诲人不倦

instructing with tireless zeal (idiom, from Analects)

诲淫诲盗

to promote sex and violence