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紫

紫

Translingual

Han character

紫 (radical 120 糸+5, 11 strokes, cangjie input 卜心女戈火 (YPVIF), four-corner 21903, composition ⿱此糸)

References

  • KangXi: page 919, character 29
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27337
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1350, character 12
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3392, character 12
  • Unihan data for U+7D2B

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 紫

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 紫
Bronze inscriptions Bamboo and silk script Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (此) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
些 *saːls, *sjaːl, *seːs
跐 *ʔsreːʔ, *ʔseʔ, *sʰeʔ, *ʔsreʔ
柴 *zreː
祡 *zreː
茈 *zreː, *ʔseʔ, *ze
眦 *zreːs
砦 *zraːds
寨 *zraːds, *slɯːɡ
啙 *ʔseː, *zeːʔ, *ʔseʔ
泚 *sʰeːʔ, *sʰeʔ
玼 *sʰeːʔ, *sʰeʔ, *ze
皉 *sʰeːʔ
鮆 *zeːʔ, *ʔse
眥 *zeːs, *zes
貲 *ʔse
髭 *ʔse
頾 *ʔse
訾 *ʔse, *ʔseʔ
鴜 *ʔse, *ze
鈭 *ʔse, *sʰe
姕 *ʔse, *sʰe, *ze
觜 *ʔse, *ʔse, *ʔseʔ
紫 *ʔseʔ
訿 *ʔseʔ
呰 *ʔseʔ
嘴 *ʔseʔ
雌 *sʰe
此 *sʰeʔ
佌 *sʰeʔ, *seʔ
庛 *sʰes
疵 *ze
骴 *ze, *zes
胔 *ze, *zes
飺 *ze
齜 *ʔsre

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ʔseʔ) : phonetic 此 ‎(OC *sʰeʔ) + semantic 糸.

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 紫
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 精 (13)
Final (韻) 支 (11)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 將此切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /t͡siᴇX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /t͡siɛX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /t͡sjɛX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /t͡siə̆X/
Li
Rong		 /t͡sieX/
Wang
Li		 /t͡sǐeX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /t͡sie̯X/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 zǐ
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 紫
Reading # 1/1
No. 1712
Phonetic
component		 此
Rime
group		 支
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 紫
Old
Chinese		 /*ʔseʔ/

Definitions

紫

  1. purple, violet, dark pink (combination of red and blue colours)
  2. amethyst
  3. A surname​.

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

紫

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

Compounds

Noun

紫 ‎(hiragana むらさき, romaji murasaki)

  1. purple; violet
  2. a gromwell
  3. soy (sauce)

See also

Colors in Japanese · 色 (いろ) ‎(iro) (layout · text)
     赤 (あか) ‎(aka)      緑 (みどり) ‎(midori)      黄色 (きいろ) ‎(kiiro)      クリーム色 (いろ) ‎(kurīmuiro)      白 (しろ) ‎(shiro)
     深紅 (しんく) ‎(shinku),
クリムゾン ‎(kurimuzon),
紅色 (べにいろ) ‎(beniiro),
紅色 (くれないいろ) ‎(kurenaiiro) 		     マゼンタ ‎(mazenta)      ?      黄緑 (きみどり) ‎(kimidori)      ピンク ‎(pinku),
桃色 (ももいろ) ‎(momoiro)
     ?      青 (あお) ‎(ao)      オレンジ ‎(orenji), 橙色 (だいだいいろ) ‎(daidaiiro)      灰色 (はいいろ) ‎(haiiro),
鼠色 (ねずみいろ) ‎(nezumiiro) 		     ?
     黒 (くろ) ‎(kuro)      紫 (むらさき) ‎(murasaki)      茶色 (ちゃいろ) ‎(chairo),
褐色 (かっしょく) ‎(kasshoku) 		     水色 (みずいろ) ‎(mizuiro)      シアン ‎(shian)

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

紫 (tử, tía)

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