孳

See also: 孶

孳 U+5B73, 孳 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5B73 ← 孲 [U+5B72] CJK Unified Ideographs 孴 → [U+5B74]

Translingual

Han character

孳 (Kangxi radical 39, 子+10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 廿女戈木 (TVID) or 難廿女戈木 (XTVID), four-corner 4440₇, composition ⿱兹子)

1. breed in large numbers

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 280, character 17
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7011
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1017, character 9
• Unihan data for U+5B73

Bailang

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan. Compare Tibetan མཛའ (mdza'), Old Chinese 慈 (OC *zɯ).

Adjective

孳 (*dziəh)

1. loving

References

• Hill, Nathan W. (2017) “Songs of the Bailang: A New Transcription with Etymological Commentary”, in Bulletin de l'École française d'Extrême-Orient‎^[1], volume 103, pages 386—429

Chinese

simp. and trad.		孳
alternative forms		孶 𢇖

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 孳
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

Characters in the same phonetic series (兹) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
糍	*zi
茲	*ʔsɯ, *zɯ
滋	*ʔsɯ
孳	*ʔsɯ, *zɯs
嵫	*ʔsɯ
嗞	*ʔsɯ
鎡	*ʔsɯ
鰦	*ʔsɯ
鶿	*ʔsɯ, *zɯ
稵	*ʔsɯ, *ʔsɯw
螆	*sʰɯs
慈	*zɯ
鷀	*zɯ
磁	*zɯ
礠	*zlɯ
濨	*zlɯ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ʔsɯ, *zɯs) : phonetic 兹 (OC *ʔsɯ, *zɯ) + semantic 子 (“child”).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zī (zi¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄗ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zi¹
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): chu

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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/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chu
    • Tâi-lô: tsu
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zw
    • IPA (Xiamen): /t͡su⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡su³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡su⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡su⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡su⁴⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: tsi, dziH

Rime
Character	孳	孳
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	精 (13)	從 (15)
Final (韻)	之 (19)	之 (19)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	子之切	疾置切
Baxter	tsi	dziH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡sɨ/	/d͡zɨH/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡sɨ/	/d͡zɨH/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡sie/	/d͡zieH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/t͡sɨ/	/d͡zɨH/
Li Rong	/t͡siə/	/d͡ziəH/
Wang Li	/t͡sĭə/	/d͡zĭəH/
Bernard Karlgren	/t͡si/	/d͡zʱiH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zī	zì
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zi1	zi6

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*ʔsɯ/, /*zɯs/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	孳	孳
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	17837	17852
Phonetic component	兹	兹
Rime group	之	之
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	兹	字
Old Chinese	/*ʔsɯ/	/*zɯs/

Definitions

孳

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Compounds

• 孳乳 (zīrǔ)
• 孳孳 (zīzī)
• 孳孳不倦
• 孳尾
• 孳息 (zīxī)
• 孳生 (zīshēng)
• 孳育
• 孳茂
• 孳萌
• 孳蔓
• 孳衍

 

Japanese

Kanji

孳

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): し (shi)、じ (ji)
• Kun: うむ (umu)、しげる (shigeru)

Compounds

• 孳尾(つる)む (tsurumu)

Korean

Hanja

孳 • (ja) (hangeul 자, revised ja, McCune–Reischauer cha)

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Vietnamese

Han character

孳: Hán Nôm readings: tư

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