Zi:会
会(F會) [huì] meet/meeting; can/able; should; know/understand [kuài] calculate; accounting (会计 kuàijì) [huǐ] 会儿 moment [kuò] [guì] cf. 會
3 monosyllabic entries in The ABC Chinese-English Comprehensive Dictionary (namespace Ci):
►¹huì* 会[會] {A} v. ①get together; assemble ②meet; see ③understand; grasp ‖ Nǐ ∼ ma? 你∼吗? Do you know how? ④pay/foot a bill ◆aux. ①can; be able to ‖ Wǒ huì yòng kuàizi. 我会用筷子。 I can use chopsticks. ②be good at; be skillful in ③be likely/sure to ‖ Tā ∼ lái de. 他∼来的。 He will come. ◆n. ①meeting; gathering; party; get-together; conference ②association; society; union ③temple fair ④mutual loan club ◆b.f. ①chief city; capital ►shěnghuì 省会 ②opportunity; occasion ►¹jīhuì 机会 ③〈environment:〉 coll. a while; a little while ►yị̄huì(r) 一会
►³huǐ 会[會] {E} b.f. moment; brief period of time ►huǐr 会儿 ►yīhuǐ 一会 ►děnghuǐr 等会儿
►⁴kuài 会[會] {E} b.f. accounts ►kuàijì 会计 ►cáikuài 财会
The simple-form character 会 (6 strokes) is an abbrev. of the full-form character 會 (13 strokes), keeping the upper full-form part 亼 (3 strokes), and replacing the rest (10 strokes) with a shape like 𠫔 (3 strokes).
Note: In the simple form 会 the bottom part looks like 云 yún ‘clouds’, as in 层/層 céng ‘layer/level’, but 云 is not a traditional component of 会/會 (cf. 气 below).
The Shuōwén Seal form of 會 huì ‘come/put together, meet’ is said to combine 亼 jí ‘together’ (as in 合), and 曾 zēng/céng (abbrev.); formerly wr. 㣛, with the old form of 合 on the right, and 气 qì ‘steam’ on the left (not 彳), as in 欠.
Note: The component 曾 here is assoc. with 增 zēng ‘increase’ (stack/pile up/together, layer upon layer), formerly wr. 曾.
Compare: 甑 zèng ‘(stacked) steamer basket’ (竹蒸笼); 橧 zēng ‘nest’ (basket), formerly also wr. 增, 竲, cf. 曾.
Compare: 层/層 céng ‘floor/story (of a multi-story building), level/layer’.
Older graphs associated with 會 are thought to depict a 甑 zèng ‘lidded/stacked steamer basket’ (甑子): to stack/assemble, put together the 曾 ‘multi-level steamer basket’ with 亼 ‘lid’.
“[會] To 亼 meet (ancient form of 集) round the 𡆧 fire (cf. 黑) and 曰 chat” —Karlgren(AD).
Compare: 合 hé ‘combine’; 囱/囪(𡆧) cōng ‘vent/chimney’; 曰 yuē ‘speak’.
Compare: 狯/獪 kuài ‘cunning/sly/crafty’; 侩/儈 kuài ‘broker/middleman’; 浍/澮 kuài ‘irrigation ditch’, formerly wr. 巜.
►references: Wieger:14d; Henshall:87; Karlgren:AD112; Hànyǔ Dà Zìdiǎn:1.116.3; Mathews:2345; Bǐshùn Guīfàn:031.1.02; Wáng(1993):124; EDOC:0
►components: 亼𠫔𠆢云人二厶
►Cantonese: wui/ wuih\ wuih-
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<comp char='云' uni='4E91' points='10,54 118,128' />
</cdl>
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<cdl char='云' uni='4E91' points='4,4 124,128' radical='X2'>
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<comp char='厶' uni='53B6' points='12,50 116,128' />
</cdl>
<cdl char='二' uni='4E8C' points='0,18 128,112' radical='K1D1'>
<stroke type='h' points='16,0 112,0' />
<stroke type='h' points='0,128 128,128' />
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</cdl>
<cdl char='厶' uni='53B6'>
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<stroke type='d' points='90,48 128,128' />
</cdl>
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