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齒
齒
Translingual
| Stroke order | |||
|---|---|---|---|
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| Traditional | 齒 |
|---|---|
| Shinjitai | 歯 |
| Simplified | 齿 |
Han character
齒 (radical 211 齒+0, 15 strokes, cangjie input 卜一山人人 (YMUOO), four-corner 21772, composition ⿱止𠚕)
- Kangxi radical #211, ⿒ (“tooth”).
Derived characters
- Index:Chinese radical/齒
- 𢎕, 𤪷, 𤼻, 𦢠, 𨰒, 𩖁, 𩪲
Descendants
References
- KangXi: page 1532, character 8
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 48583
- Dae Jaweon: page 2070, character 5
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4788, character 1
- Unihan data for U+9F52
Chinese
| trad. | 齒 | |
|---|---|---|
| simp. | 齿 | |
| alt. forms | ||
Glyph origin
| Historical forms of the character 齒
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| Oracle bone script | Bronze inscriptions | Large seal script | Small seal script |
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| 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 |
Pictogram (象形) – a mouth full of teeth. 之 (zhī) or 止 (zhǐ) was later added on top as a phonetic component.
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- Cantonese (Jyutping): ci2
- Hakka (Sixian, PFS): chhṳ́
- Min Nan (POJ): khí
- Wu (Wiktionary): tshr (T2)
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄔˇ
- Wade-Giles: ch'ih3
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chyy
- IPA (key): /ʈ͡ʂʰʐ̩²¹⁴/
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- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: ci2
- Yale: chí
- Cantonese Pinyin: tsi2
- IPA (key): /t͡sʰiː³⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chhṳ́
- Hakka Romanization System: cii`
- Hagfa Pinyim: ci3
- IPA: /t͡sʰɨ³¹/
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: khí
- Tâi-lô: khí
- Phofsit Daibuun: qie
- IPA (Xiamen): /kʰi⁵³/
- IPA (Quanzhou): /kʰi⁵⁵⁴/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /kʰi⁵³/
- IPA (Taipei): /kʰi⁵³/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /kʰi⁴¹/
- (Hokkien)
- Wu
- (Shanghainese)
- Wiktionary: tshr (T2)
- IPA (key): /t͡sʰz̩³⁴/
- (Shanghainese)
- Dialectal data▼
| Variety | Location | 齒 |
|---|---|---|
| Mandarin | Beijing | /ʈ͡ʂʰʐ̩²¹⁴/ |
| Harbin | /ʈ͡ʂʰʐ̩²¹³/ | |
| Tianjin | /t͡sʰz̩¹³/ | |
| Jinan | /ʈ͡ʂʰʐ̩⁵⁵/ | |
| Qingdao | /ʈ͡ʂʰʐ̩⁵⁵/ | |
| Zhengzhou | /ʈ͡ʂʰʐ̩⁵³/ | |
| Xi'an | /t͡sʰz̩⁴⁴/ | |
| Xining | /t͡sʰz̩⁴⁴/ | |
| Yinchuan | /ʈ͡ʂʰʐ̩⁵³/ | |
| Lanzhou | /ʈ͡ʂʰʐ̩⁴⁴²/ | |
| Ürümqi | /t͡sʰz̩⁵¹/ | |
| Wuhan | /t͡sʰz̩⁴²/ | |
| Chengdu | /t͡sʰz̩⁵³/ | |
| Guiyang | /t͡sʰz̩²¹/ | |
| Kunming | /ʈ͡ʂʰʐ̩⁵³/ | |
| Nanjing | /ʈ͡ʂʰʐ̩²¹²/ | |
| Hefei | /t͡sʰʐ̩²⁴/ | |
| Jin | Taiyuan | /t͡sʰz̩⁵³/ |
| Pingyao |
/sz̩⁵³/ 平~磨 /t͡sz̩⁵³/ ~輪兒 |
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| Hohhot | /t͡sʰz̩⁵³/ | |
| Wu | Shanghai | /t͡sz̩³⁵/ |
| Suzhou | /t͡sʰz̩ʷ⁵¹/ | |
| Hangzhou | /t͡sʰz̩⁵³/ | |
| Wenzhou | /t͡sʰz̩³⁵/ | |
| Hui | Shexian | /t͡ɕʰi³⁵/ |
| Tunxi | /t͡ɕʰi³¹/ | |
| Xiang | Changsha | /ʈ͡ʂʰʐ̩⁴¹/ |
| Xiangtan | /ʈ͡ʂʰʐ̩⁴²/ | |
| Gan | Nanchang | /t͡sʰz̩²¹³/ |
| Hakka | Meixian | /t͡sʰz̩³¹/ |
| Taoyuan | /tʃʰï³¹/ | |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou | /t͡sʰi³⁵/ |
| Nanning | /t͡sʰi³⁵/ | |
| Hong Kong | /t͡sʰi³⁵/ | |
| Min | Xiamen (Min Nan) |
/t͡sʰi⁵³/ /kʰi⁵³/ |
| Fuzhou (Min Dong) | /kʰi³²/ | |
| Jian'ou (Min Bei) | /t͡sʰi²¹/ | |
| Shantou (Min Nan) | /kʰi⁵³/ | |
| Haikou (Min Nan) | /xi²¹³/ |
| Rime | |
|---|---|
| Character | 齒 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 昌 (24) |
| Final (韻) | 之 (19) |
| Tone (調) | Rising (X) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 昌里切 |
| Reconstructions | |
| Zhengzhang Shangfang |
/t͡ɕʰɨX/ |
| Pan Wuyun |
/t͡ɕʰɨX/ |
| Shao Rongfen |
/t͡ɕʰieX/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank |
/cʰɨX/ |
| Li Rong |
/t͡ɕʰiəX/ |
| Wang Li |
/t͡ɕʰĭəX/ |
| Bernard Karlgren |
/t͡ɕʰiX/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex |
chǐ |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 齒 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 17302 |
| Phonetic component |
止 |
| Rime group |
之 |
| Rime subdivision |
0 |
| Corresponding MC rime |
齒 |
| Old Chinese |
/*kʰjɯʔ/ |
Definitions
齒
Synonyms
- 牙 (yá)
Compounds
Derived terms from 齒
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References
- (Min Nan) “Entry #11604”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (in Chinese and Min Nan), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2011.
Korean
Hanja
齒 • (chi) (hangeul 치, McCune-Reischauer ch'i, Yale chi)
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