會
简 会 · 繁 會Meanings · wui2
- (noun) 1. seminar; 2. meeting; 3. party; 2. club; 3. membership
Meanings · kui2
- to compute
- to calculate
- to do the accounts
Meanings · kui3
- to compute
- to calculate
- to do the accounts
Meanings · wui6
- to compute
- to calculate
- to do the accounts
Meanings · wui2
- club
- group
- association Mandarin classifier: 个
- society
- organisation
- club
Meanings · wui3
- can;
- to be possible
- to be able to
- will
- to be likely to
- to be sure to
Meanings · wui5
- can;
- to be possible
- to be able to
- will
- to be likely to
- to be sure to
Meanings · wui6
- to assemble
- to meet
- to gather
- to see
- to express a fact
- to express an action that is one's routine
Meanings · wui6
- a moment (Taiwan pr. for this sense is [huǐ])
- metropolitan
- gatherings union
- to meet
- to catch up
About these definitions
Source definition segments, in their original order. Characters a definition cites are shown without their Mandarin pinyin; classifier lists that CC-Canto copied from CC-CEDICT are marked Mandarin. The community dictionary is not independently verified by zimai.
Reading & tones
Schematic citation-tone diagrams from the source numbers. These are not recordings or predictions of connected speech.
Tone difference from Unihan
- 會 is read wui2 here; Unihan’s citation reading is wui6. Same syllable, different tone across these source readings. CC-Canto also lists 會 wui2 as its own entry.
Computed by zimai: each syllable of the CC-Canto word reading is compared with Unihan 17.0.0 kCantonese for its character. The comparison does not say why a reading differs (a changed tone, 變音, a reading tied to one meaning, or a source variant).
Same syllable, six tones
Characters whose customary Unihan reading (kCantonese) is this syllable in each tone, chosen as in the tone atlas (2013 standard level, then the number of CC-CEDICT words they form), with CC-Canto 2017's meaning for that reading; a dash means no catalogue character has that reading. Checked syllables (-p, -t, -k) normally carry tones 1, 3 and 6. Character readings, not word readings; no frequency implied.
Written characters
Both source spellings are represented. Written membership is not an etymological or semantic claim.
Mandarin comparison · separate source entries
CC-CEDICT, the Mandarin–English dictionary, lists the same written form:
- 會 huì CC-CEDICT · Mandarincan; to have the skill; to know how to; to be likely to; to be sure to; to meet; to get together; meeting; gathering; (suffix) union; group; association; (bound form) a moment (Taiwan pr. huǐ)
- 會 kuài CC-CEDICT · Mandarin(bound form) to reckon accounts
A separate source entry, shown for comparison. The same characters can carry different senses in Mandarin and in Cantonese; zimai does not align these senses.
CC-Canto includes this pinyin reference: hui4. It does not establish a Mandarin word with the same meaning.
Look up this spelling in the Mandarin dictionary ↗Compare dictionary sources Wiktionary · 29 senses · 6 Cantonese readings
Rime Cantonese 粵拼
kui2 · kui3 · wui2 · wui3 · wui5 · wui6
Cantonese word readings for 會. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.
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Wiktionary English definitions · Chinese section
Independent source senses for this spelling, with usage labels retained. Not matched to the pronunciation above.
character
- union; group; association (Classifier: 個／个)
- union; group; association (Classifier: 個／个) — (Cantonese) mutual aid association that raises fund
- economic or political centre; major city
- occasion; opportunity; chance
- (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) lid; cover
- (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) to match; to conform
- (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) to marry
- (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) to copulate
- to gather; to assemble
- to meet; to rendezvous
- meeting; gathering (Classifier: 場／场; 次)
- meeting; gathering (Classifier: 場／场; 次) — Especially, meetings of deputies of their sovereigns in ancient China to form alliances.
- temple fair
- to understand; to grasp
- (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) rhythm; cadence
- (literary) by chance; as it happens
- (literary) ought to; should
- (Zhangzhou Hokkien) to clarify; to clear up
- (Zhangzhou Hokkien) to express appreciation verbally
- (Taoism) epoch, a lunar or grand cycle of 10,800 years
character
- to know how to perform a task; can; to be able to
- to be good at; to be skillful in
- will; to be likely to; to be sure to
- would; to be willing to
character
- moment
character
- (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) to compute; to calculate; to sum; to do accounting
- a surname
character
- only used in 會稽／会稽 (Kuàijī, “Guiji Commandery”)
character
- only used in 會撮／会撮
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