姕

姕 U+59D5, 姕 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-59D5 ← 委 [U+59D4] CJK Unified Ideographs 姖 → [U+59D6]

Translingual

Han character

姕 (Kangxi radical 38, 女+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 卜心女 (YPV), composition ⿱此女)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 259, character 12
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6183
• Dae Jaweon: page 525, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1043, character 14
• Unihan data for U+59D5

Chinese

simp. and trad.		姕

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 姕
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
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

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zī (zi¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄗ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zi¹
• Eastern Min (BUC): cĭ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zī
    • Zhuyin: ㄗ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: zih
    • Wade–Giles: tzŭ¹
    • Yale: dz̄
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tzy
    • Palladius: цзы (czy)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sz̩⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: zi¹
    • Yale: jī
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzi¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: ji¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡siː⁵⁵/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: cĭ
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡si⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: tsje, tshje

Rime
Character	姕	姕
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	精 (13)	清 (14)
Final (韻)	支 (11)	支 (11)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	即移切	此移切
Baxter	tsje	tshje
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡siᴇ/	/t͡sʰiᴇ/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡siɛ/	/t͡sʰiɛ/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡sjɛ/	/t͡sʰjɛ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/t͡siə̆/	/t͡sʰiə̆/
Li Rong	/t͡sie/	/t͡sʰie/
Wang Li	/t͡sǐe/	/t͡sʰǐe/
Bernard Karlgren	/t͡sie̯/	/t͡sʰie̯/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zī	cī
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zi1	ci1

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*ʔse/, /*sʰe/, /*ze/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	姕	姕	姕
Reading #	1/3	2/3	3/3
No.	1709	1722	1736
Phonetic component	此	此	此
Rime group	支	支	支
Rime subdivision	0	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	貲	雌	疵
Old Chinese	/*ʔse/	/*sʰe/	/*ze/
Notes			即移切注又音

Definitions

姕

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Compounds

• 姕妓
• 姕姕

 

References

• (Cantonese) Jyutping Database (粵拼資料庫)