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只
只
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See also: 隻
Translingual
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Han character
只 (radical 30 口+2, 5 strokes, cangjie input 口金 (RC), four-corner 60800, composition ⿱口八)
References
- KangXi: page 172, character 5
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3239
- Dae Jaweon: page 383, character 1
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 570, character 3
- Unihan data for U+53EA
Chinese
Glyph origin
| Characters in the same phonetic series (只) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
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| Old Chinese | |
| 只 | *klje, *kljeʔ |
| 胑 | *klje |
| 疻 | *klje, *klji |
| 軹 | *kljeʔ |
| 咫 | *kljeʔ |
| 枳 | *kljeʔ, *kleʔ |
| 抧 | *kljeʔ |
| 伿 | *kljes, *les |
| 齞 | *ŋleːnʔ |
Ideogrammic compound (會意) : 口 (“mouth”) + airflow, an interjection.
Etymology 1
| trad. | 只/祇 | |
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| simp. | 只 | |
| alt. forms | 衹 | |
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- Cantonese (Jyutping): zi2
- Hakka (Sixian, PFS): chṳ́ / chṳt
- Min Nan (POJ): chí
- Wu (Wiktionary): tsr (T2); tseq (T4)
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄓˇ
- Wade-Giles: chih3
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jyy
- IPA (key): /ʈ͡ʂʐ̩²¹⁴/
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- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: zi2
- Yale: jí
- Cantonese Pinyin: dzi2
- IPA (key): /t͡siː³⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chṳ́ / chṳt
- Hakka Romanization System: zii` / ziid`
- Hagfa Pinyim: zi3 / zid5
- IPA: /t͡sɨ³¹/, /t͡sɨt̚²/
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chí
- Tâi-lô: tsí
- Phofsit Daibuun: cie
- IPA (Xiamen): /t͡ɕi⁵³/
- IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡ɕi⁵⁵⁴/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡ɕi⁵³/
- IPA (Taipei): /t͡ɕi⁵³/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡ɕi⁴¹/
- (Hokkien)
- Wu
- (Shanghainese)
- Wiktionary: tsr (T2); tseq (T4)
- IPA (key): /t͡sz̩³⁴/, /t͡səʔ⁵⁵/
- (Shanghainese)
| Rime | ||
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| Character | 只 | 只 |
| Reading # | 1/2 | 2/2 |
| Initial (聲) | 章 (23) | 章 (23) |
| Final (韻) | 支 (11) | 支 (11) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) | Rising (X) |
| Openness (開合) | Open | Open |
| Division (等) | III | III |
| Fanqie | 章移切 | 諸氏切 |
| Reconstructions | ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang |
/t͡ɕiᴇ/ | /t͡ɕiᴇX/ |
| Pan Wuyun |
/t͡ɕiɛ/ | /t͡ɕiɛX/ |
| Shao Rongfen |
/t͡ɕjɛ/ | /t͡ɕjɛX/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank |
/ciə̆/ | /ciə̆X/ |
| Li Rong |
/t͡ɕie/ | /t͡ɕieX/ |
| Wang Li |
/t͡ɕǐe/ | /t͡ɕǐeX/ |
| Bernard Karlgren |
/t͡ɕie̯/ | /t͡ɕie̯X/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex |
zhī | zhǐ |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | ||
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| Character | 只 | 只 |
| Reading # | 1/2 | 2/2 |
| No. | 17304 | 17307 |
| Phonetic component |
只 | 只 |
| Rime group |
支 | 支 |
| Rime subdivision |
0 | 0 |
| Corresponding MC rime |
支 | 紙 |
| Old Chinese |
/*klje/ | /*kljeʔ/ |
Definitions
只
Synonyms
Compounds
Derived terms from 只
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Etymology 2
| For pronunciation and definitions of 只 – see 隻. (This character, 只, is the simplified form of 隻.) |
Notes:
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Korean
Hanja
只 • (ji) (hangeul 지, revised ji, McCune-Reischauer chi, Yale ci)
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