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咨

咨

咨 U+54A8, 咨
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-54A8
← 咧
[U+54A7] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 咩 →
[U+54A9]
See also: 谘 and 諮

Translingual

Han character

咨 (radical 30 口+6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 戈人口 (IOR) or 一人口 (MOR), four-corner 37608, composition ⿱次口)

  1. inquire, consult, discuss
  2. plan

References

  • KangXi: page 186, character 11
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3538
  • Dae Jaweon: page 405, character 32
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 621, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+54A8

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 咨

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 咨
Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (次) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
咨 *ʔsli
資 *ʔsli
姿 *ʔsli
粢 *ʔsli
諮 *ʔsli
恣 *ʔslis
澬 *ʔsli, *zli
趑 *sʰli
蠀 *sʰli
次 *sn̥ʰis
佽 *sl̥ʰis
絘 *sl̥ʰis
薋 *zli
瓷 *zli
茨 *zli
餈 *zli
垐 *zli, *zlɯɡ
楶 *ʔsliːɡ

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 咨
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 精 (13)
Final (韻) 脂 (15)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 即夷切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /t͡siɪ/
Pan
Wuyun		 /t͡si/
Shao
Rongfen		 /t͡sjɪ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /t͡si/
Li
Rong		 /t͡si/
Wang
Li		 /t͡si/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /t͡si/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 zī
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 咨
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 zī
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ tsij ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[ts]ij/
English consult; plan (v.)

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 咨
Reading # 1/1
No. 1785
Phonetic
component		 次
Rime
group		 脂
Rime
subdivision		 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 咨
Old
Chinese		 /*ʔsli/

Definitions

咨

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Compounds

  • 咨呈
  • 咨咨
  • 咨嗟
  • 咨文 (zīwén)
  • 咨牙倈嘴
  • 咨訪／咨访
  • 咨請／咨请
  • 嚌咨

Japanese

Kanji

咨

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

咨 • ‎(ja) (hangeul 자, revised ja, McCune-Reischauer cha)

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Vietnamese

Han character

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References

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