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Translingual

Han character

(radical 72 +2, 6 strokes, cangjie input 心日 (PA) or X心日 (XPA), four-corner 21601, composition)

  1. purpose, aim
  2. excellent

References

  • KangXi: page 489, character 6
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13738
  • Dae Jaweon: page 850, character 5
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1485, character 7
  • Unihan data for U+65E8

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Bamboo and silk script Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*kiː, *kʰiːʔ
*ŋɡiːs
*ŋɡiːs, *kji
*klje
*kji
*kji, *kjis
*kjiʔ
*kjiʔ
*kjiʔ
*ɡjis
*qʰlji
*ɡri
*ɡri
*ɡri
*ɡri

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *kjiʔ) : phonetic  (OC *pilʔ, *hŋʷraːls) + semantic  (delicious, simplified from ) – according to the Shuowen.

Ideogrammic compound (會意) interpretations: 匕, a man tasting, or a spoon ()In the tab "详细解释".

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (23)
Final () (17)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () Chongniu III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/t͡ɕˠiɪX/
Pan
Wuyun
/t͡ɕᵚiX/
Shao
Rongfen
/t͡ɕiɪX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/cjiX/
Li
Rong
/t͡ɕjiX/
Wang
Li
/t͡ɕiX/
Bernard
Karlgren
/t͡ɕiX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
zhǐ
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
zhǐ
Middle
Chinese
‹ tsyijX ›
Old
Chinese
/*kijʔ/
English fine-tasting

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
Reading # 1/1
No. 17326
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*kjiʔ/
Notes

Definitions

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Compounds

  • 下旨
  • 中旨
  • 主旨 (zhǔzhǐ)
  • 令旨
  • 俞旨
  • 候旨
  • 傳旨传旨 (chuánzhǐ)
  • 先意希旨
  • 先意承旨
  • 和旨
  • 回旨
  • 大旨 (dàzhǐ)
  • 奉旨 (fèngzhǐ)
  • 奧旨奥旨
  • 宏旨
  • 宗旨 (zōngzhǐ)
  • 宣旨 (xuānzhǐ)
  • 密旨
  • 御旨
  • 恩旨
  • 意旨 (yìzhǐ)
  • 懿旨 (yìzhǐ)
  • 承旨
  • 承顏順旨承颜顺旨
  • 承風希旨承风希旨
  • 敕旨
  • 教育宗旨
  • 旨意 (zhǐyì)
  • 旨甘
  • 旨蓄
  • 旨要
  • 旨趣 (zhǐqù)
  • 旨酒
  • 旨酒嘉肴
  • 望風承旨望风承旨
  • 本旨 (běnzhǐ)
  • 法旨
  • 無關宏旨无关宏旨
  • 玄旨
  • 甘旨
  • 甘旨肥濃甘旨肥浓
  • 睿旨
  • 聖旨圣旨 (shèngzhǐ)
  • 背旨
  • 臺旨台旨
  • 芳旨
  • 要旨 (yàozhǐ)
  • 言微旨遠言微旨远
  • 言近旨遠言近旨远
  • 諭旨谕旨
  • 趣旨 (qùzhǐ)
  • 辭微旨遠辞微旨远
  • 辭旨辞旨
  • 迎意承旨
  • 違旨违旨
  • 金樽旨酒
  • 鈞旨钧旨
  • 阿意順旨阿意顺旨
  • 阿諛順旨阿谀顺旨
  • 降旨 (jiàngzhǐ)
  • 領旨领旨
  • 題旨题旨

Japanese

Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

Compounds


Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

(chỉ)

  1. royal order, decree