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Translingual

Han character

(radical 86 +12, 16 strokes, cangjie input 火卜戈日 (FYIA), four-corner 93850, composition)

  1. burning-hot, intense
  2. to burn, blaze
  3. splendid, illustrious

References


Chinese

trad.
simp.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*tjɯɡs, *hljɯɡ
*tjɯɡs, *tʰjɯɡs, *hljɯɡs
*tjɯɡs, *tjɯɡ
*tʰjɯɡs
*dɯːɡ, *tjɯɡ
*tjɯɡ
*tjɯɡ
*tjɯɡ
*tjɯɡ
*tjɯɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *tʰjɯɡs) : semantic  (fire) + phonetic  (OC *tjɯɡ).

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (24)
Final () (19)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/t͡ɕʰɨH/
Pan
Wuyun
/t͡ɕʰɨH/
Shao
Rongfen
/t͡ɕʰieH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/cʰɨH/
Li
Rong
/t͡ɕʰiəH/
Wang
Li
/t͡ɕʰĭəH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/t͡ɕʰiH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
chì
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
chì
Middle
Chinese
‹ tsyhiH ›
Old
Chinese
/*tʰək-s/
English blaze

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
Reading # 1/1
No. 17247
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*tʰjɯɡs/

Definitions

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Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. kindling fire or flame

Readings


Korean

Hanja

(chi) (hangeul , revised chi, McCune-Reischauer ch'i, Yale chi)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(, , xế, xi, )

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