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梓

梓

Translingual

Han character

梓 (radical 75 木+7, 11 strokes, cangjie input 木卜廿十 (DYTJ) or X木卜廿十 (XDYTJ), four-corner 40941, composition ⿰木辛)

References

  • KangXi: page 528, character 25
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14845
  • Dae Jaweon: page 917, character 13
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1219, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+6893

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 梓

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (宰) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
宰 *ʔsɯːʔ
縡 *ʔsɯːʔ, *ʔsɯːs
梓 *ʔsɯʔ
滓 *ʔsrɯʔ

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 梓
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 精 (13)
Final (韻) 之 (19)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 即里切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /t͡sɨX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /t͡sɨX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /t͡sieX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /t͡sɨX/
Li
Rong		 /t͡siəX/
Wang
Li		 /t͡sĭəX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /t͡siX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 zǐ
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 梓
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 zǐ
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ tsiX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[ts]əʔ/
English Catalpa

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 梓
Reading # 1/1
No. 16509
Phonetic
component		 宰
Rime
group		 之
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 子
Old
Chinese		 /*ʔsɯʔ/
Notes 說文宰省聲

Definitions

梓

  1. yellow catalpa or Chinese catalpa (Catalpa ovata)
    付木
  2. craftsman who produces wooden items
    梓匠
  3. hometown
  4. printing block
    付梓
  5. A surname​.

Compounds

  • 上梓 (shàngzǐ)
  • 付梓
  • 吳敬梓／吴敬梓
  • 喬梓／乔梓
  • 杞梓
  • 桑梓
  • 桑梓之邦
  • 梓人
  • 梓匠
  • 梓匠輪輿／梓匠轮舆
  • 梓器
  • 梓宮／梓宫
  • 梓材
  • 梓鄉／梓乡
  • 梓里
  • 橋梓／桥梓
  • 荊南杞梓／荆南杞梓
  • 賢喬梓／贤乔梓
  • 鄉梓／乡梓

References

Japanese

Kanji

梓

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

Readings

Etymology

Kanji in this term
梓
あずさ
Jinmeiyō
kun'yomi

Noun

梓 ‎(hiragana あずさ, katakana アズサ, romaji azusa)

  1. Japanese cherry birch, Betula grossa
  2. printing block

Proper noun

梓 ‎(hiragana あずさ, romaji Azusa)

  1. A female given name

Korean

Hanja

梓 • ‎(jae) (hangeul 재, revised jae, McCune-Reischauer chae, Yale cay)

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Vietnamese

Han character

梓 (tử)

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