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U+53EA, 只
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-53EA

[U+53E9]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+53EB]
See also:

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

(radical 30 +2, 5 strokes, cangjie input 口金 (RC), four-corner 60800, composition)

References

  • KangXi: page 172, character 5
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3239
  • Dae Jaweon: page 383, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 570, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+53EA

Chinese

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*klje, *kljeʔ
*klje
*klje, *klji
*kljeʔ
*kljeʔ
*kljeʔ, *kleʔ
*kljeʔ
伿 *kljes, *les
*ŋleːnʔ

Ideogrammic compound (會意) : (“mouth”) + airflow, an interjection.

Etymology 1

trad. /
simp.
alt. forms

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial () (23) (23)
Final () (11) (11)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () III III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/t͡ɕiᴇ/ /t͡ɕiᴇX/
Pan
Wuyun
/t͡ɕiɛ/ /t͡ɕiɛX/
Shao
Rongfen
/t͡ɕjɛ/ /t͡ɕjɛX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ciə̆/ /ciə̆X/
Li
Rong
/t͡ɕie/ /t͡ɕieX/
Wang
Li
/t͡ɕǐe/ /t͡ɕǐeX/
Bernard
Karlgren
/t͡ɕie̯/ /t͡ɕie̯X/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
zhī zhǐ
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 17304 17307
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0 0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*klje/ /*kljeʔ/

Definitions

  1. only; just; simply
    /    zhǐ qù guò yī cì.   I've only been there once.
    一點兒胡椒粉 [MSC, trad.]
    一点儿胡椒粉 [MSC, simp.]
    Tāng lǐ zhǐ fàng le yīdiǎnr hújiāofěn. [Pinyin]
    There was just a hint of pepper in the soup.
Synonyms

Compounds

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of – see .
(This character, , is the simplified form of .)
Notes:

Japanese

Kanji

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

  1. only, simply

Readings


Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

(chỉ, chích)

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