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姿
姿
Translingual
Han character
姿 (radical 38 女+6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 戈人女 (IOV) or 一人女 (MOV), four-corner 37404, composition ⿱次女)
Related characters
References
- KangXi: page 261, character 22
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6257
- Dae Jaweon: page 527, character 25
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1047, character 6
- Unihan data for U+59FF
Chinese
|
simp. and trad. |
姿 | |
|---|---|---|
Glyph origin
| Historical forms of the character 姿
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|---|
| Small seal script |
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| 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 |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ʔsli) : phonetic 次 (OC *sn̥ʰis) + semantic 女 (“woman”) – a woman’s manner, carriage, bearing.
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄗ
- Wade-Giles: tzu1
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tzy
- IPA (key): /t͡sz̩⁵⁵/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: zi1
- Yale: jī
- Cantonese Pinyin: dzi1
- IPA (key): /t͡siː⁵⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Min Nan
| Rime | |
|---|---|
| Character | 姿 |
| 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 |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 姿 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 1787 |
| Phonetic component |
次 |
| Rime group |
脂 |
| Rime subdivision |
2 |
| Corresponding MC rime |
咨 |
| Old Chinese |
/*ʔsli/ |
Definitions
姿
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Compounds
Japanese
Kanji
姿
- figure
Readings
Noun
姿 (hiragana すがた, romaji sugata)
- figure, appearance, form, aspect, shape
Korean
Hanja
姿 • (ja) (hangeul 자, revised ja, McCune-Reischauer cha)
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Vietnamese
Han character
姿 (tư)
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