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志
志
Translingual
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Glyph origin
| Characters in the same phonetic series (之) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
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| Old Chinese | |
| 之 | *tjɯ |
| 芝 | *tjɯ |
| 志 | *tjɯs |
| 痣 | *tjɯs |
| 娡 | *tjɯs |
| 誌 | *tjɯs |
| 蚩 | *tʰjɯ |
| 妛 | *tʰjɯ |
| 嗤 | *tʰjɯ |
| 媸 | *tʰjɯ |
| 旹 | *djɯ |
| 滍 | *diʔ |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *tjɯs) : phonetic 止 (OC *kjɯʔ) + semantic 心.
Note that the top has been simplified and is now graphically 士 (the left vertical mark has migrated up the main vertical, becoming horizontal). This simplified form is found in seal characters, where it coexisted with forms where the top was more recognizably 止.
Also Simplified from 誌 (elimination of 言).
Han character
志 (radical 61 心+3, 7 strokes, cangjie input 土心 (GP), four-corner 40331, composition ⿱士心)
References
- KangXi: page 376, character 21
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 10331
- Dae Jaweon: page 703, character 7
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2269, character 4
- Unihan data for U+5FD7
Chinese
Etymology 1
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simp. and trad. |
志 | |
|---|---|---|
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄓˋ
- Wade-Giles: chih4
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jyh
- IPA (key): /ʈ͡ʂʐ̩⁵¹/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: zi3
- Yale: ji
- Cantonese Pinyin: dzi3
- IPA (key): /t͡siː³³/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chì
- Tâi-lô: tsì
- Phofsit Daibuun: cix
- IPA (Xiamen): /t͡ɕi²¹/
- IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡ɕi⁴¹/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡ɕi²¹/
- IPA (Taipei): /t͡ɕi¹¹/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡ɕi²¹/
- (Hokkien)
| Rime | |
|---|---|
| Character | 志 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 章 (23) |
| Final (韻) | 之 (19) |
| Tone (調) | Departing (H) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 職吏切 |
| Reconstructions | |
| Zhengzhang Shangfang |
/t͡ɕɨH/ |
| Pan Wuyun |
/t͡ɕɨH/ |
| Shao Rongfen |
/t͡ɕieH/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank |
/cɨH/ |
| Li Rong |
/t͡ɕiəH/ |
| Wang Li |
/t͡ɕĭəH/ |
| Bernard Karlgren |
/t͡ɕiH/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex |
zhì |
| Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 志 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) |
zhì |
| Middle Chinese |
‹ tsyiH › |
| Old Chinese |
/*tə-s/ |
| English | goal, intention, aspiration |
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; | |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 志 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 17190 |
| Phonetic component |
之 |
| Rime group |
之 |
| Rime subdivision |
0 |
| Corresponding MC rime |
志 |
| Old Chinese |
/*tjɯs/ |
| Notes | 說文之聲 |
Definitions
志
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Compounds
Etymology 2
| For pronunciation and definitions of 志 – see 誌. (This character, 志, is the simplified form of 誌.) |
Notes:
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Japanese
Kanji
Readings
Compounds
Trivia
This is one of only three everyday kanji with a 5 morae reading, and one of only two nouns, namely 志 (こころざし, kokorozashi) (nominalization of form of verb 志す (こころざす, kokorozasu), which has a four-mora reading). The only other kanji with five-mora readings are 承, in the verb 承る (（うけたまわ）る, uketamawa-ru), and 詔 (みことのり, mikotonori). No kanji in common use has a six- or more mora reading.
The unusually long reading is due to two factors: 志 is a nominalization of the verb 志す which has a long reading (4 morae, kokoroza-su), which itself is a noun-verb compound, 心指す kokoro-za(su). The nominalization removing the okurigana, hence increasing the reading by one morae, yielding 4+1=5, or more finely 3+(1+1)=5 (compare common 話 (はなし, hanashi) 2+1=3, from 話す (はなす, hana-su)).
Korean
Hanja
志 • (ji) (hangeul 지, revised ji, McCune-Reischauer chi, Yale ci)
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