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祉

祉

Translingual

Han character

祉 (radical 113 示+4, 9 strokes, cangjie input 戈火卜中一 (IFYLM), four-corner 31210, composition ⿰礻止)

References

  • KangXi: page 840, character 10
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 24641
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1258, character 13
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2388, character 12
  • Unihan data for U+7949

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 祉

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 祉
Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (止) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
祉 *kʰlɯʔ
址 *kjɯʔ
止 *kjɯʔ
趾 *kjɯʔ
芷 *kjɯʔ
沚 *kjɯʔ
阯 *kjɯʔ
齒 *kʰjɯʔ
紕 *be, *pʰi, *kʰjɯʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *kʰlɯʔ) : semantic 示 ‎(“sign”) + phonetic 止 ‎(OC *kjɯʔ).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 祉
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 徹 (10)
Final (韻) 之 (19)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 敕里切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ʈʰɨX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ʈʰɨX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ȶʰieX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ʈʰɨX/
Li
Rong		 /ȶʰiəX/
Wang
Li		 /ȶʰĭəX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ȶʰiX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 chǐ
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 祉
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 zhǐ
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ trhiX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[tʰ]rəʔ/
English blessings

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 祉
Reading # 1/1
No. 17295
Phonetic
component		 止
Rime
group		 之
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 恥
Old
Chinese		 /*kʰlɯʔ/

Definitions

祉

  1. happiness; blessings; good luck; felicity

Compounds

  • 旅祉
  • 潭祉叶吉
  • 祉祿／祉禄

References

Japanese

Kanji

祉

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

祉 • ‎(ji) (hangeul 지, revised ji, McCune-Reischauer chi, Yale ci)

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