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磁

磁

Translingual

Han character

磁 (radical 112 石+9, 14 strokes, cangjie input 一口廿女戈 (MRTVI), four-corner 1863₂, composition ⿰石兹)

References

KangXi: page 834, character 14

Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 24364

Dae Jaweon: page 1251, character 11

Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2445, character 6

Unihan data for U+78C1

Chinese

simp. and trad.		磁

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

Mandarin

(Pinyin): cí (ci²)

(Zhuyin): ㄘˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): ci⁴

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
  - Pinyin: cí
  - Zhuyin: ㄘˊ
  - Wade-Giles: tz'u²
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tsyr
  - IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰz̩³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: ci⁴
  - Yale: chìh
  - Cantonese Pinyin: tsi⁴
  - IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰiː²¹/

Old Chinese▼
(Zhengzhang): /*zɯ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	磁
Reading #	1/1
No.	17849
Phonetic component	兹
Rime group	之
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	慈
Old Chinese	/*zɯ/
Notes	同礠見山海經

Definitions

磁

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Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

磁

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

magnet

Readings

Goon: じ (ji)

Kan’on: し (shi) (non-Jōyō reading)

Kun: じしゃく (jishaku), やきもの (yakimono)

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

磁 (từ)

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