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滋

滋

Translingual

Han character

滋 (radical 85 水+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 水廿女戈 (ETVI), four-corner 38132, composition ⿰氵兹)

  1. grow, multiply, increase
  2. thrive

References

  • KangXi: page 642, character 15
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17919
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1049, character 19
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1686, character 6
  • Unihan data for U+6ECB

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 滋

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (兹) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
糍 *zi
茲 *ʔsɯ, *zɯ
滋 *ʔsɯ
孳 *ʔsɯ, *zɯs
嵫 *ʔsɯ
嗞 *ʔsɯ
鎡 *ʔsɯ
鰦 *ʔsɯ
鶿 *ʔsɯ, *zɯ
稵 *ʔsɯ, *ʔsɯw
螆 *sʰɯs
慈 *zɯ
鷀 *zɯ
磁 *zɯ
礠 *zlɯ
濨 *zlɯ

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 滋
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 精 (13)
Final (韻) 之 (19)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 子之切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /t͡sɨ/
Pan
Wuyun		 /t͡sɨ/
Shao
Rongfen		 /t͡sie/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /t͡sɨ/
Li
Rong		 /t͡siə/
Wang
Li		 /t͡sĭə/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /t͡si/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 zī
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 滋
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 zī
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ tsi ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[ts]ə/
English abundant

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 滋
Reading # 1/1
No. 17836
Phonetic
component		 兹
Rime
group		 之
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 兹
Old
Chinese		 /*ʔsɯ/

Definitions

滋

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Japanese

Kanji

滋

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

滋 • ‎(ja) (hangeul 자, revised ja, McCune-Reischauer cha, Yale ca)

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Vietnamese

Han character

滋 (tư)

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