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U+652F, 支
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-652F

[U+652E]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+6530]
U+2F40, ⽀
KANGXI RADICAL BRANCH
⼿
[U+2F3F]
Kangxi Radicals
[U+2F41]

Translingual

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Stroke order
4 strokes
Stroke order

Han character

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(Kangxi radical 65, +0, 4 strokes, cangjie input 十水 (JE), four-corner 40407, composition )

  1. Kangxi radical #65, .

Derived characters

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See also

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Descendants

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References

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  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 467, character 1
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13061
  • Dae Jaweon: page 814, character 13
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1327, character 14
  • Unihan data for U+652F

Chinese

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Glyph origin

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Historical forms of the character
Warring States Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Chu slip and silk script Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts

Ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意) : (hand) + ((half of ) branch of bamboo) – a hand breaking off a branch of bamboo.

Similar but unrelated to , , and .

Etymology 1

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simp. and trad.
alternative forms 𣏃
𠦙
𢺶

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-ka(ː)k (fork, branch, crotch). Cognate with the first syllable of Burmese ခက်ရင်း (hkak-rang:, fork), as well as the following words (STEDT):

  • (OC *kje, “branch (of tree); to resist, go astray”)
  • (OC *kje, “limb (of body)”)
  • (OC *qʰjes, “wing”)
  • (OC *ɡe, “bifurcating, forked (as of a road)”)

Pronunciation

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Note:
  • kî - vernacular;
  • chṳ̂ - literary.
Note:
  • ki - vernacular;
  • chi - literary.
Note: gi1 - vernacular, zin1 - literary.

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (23)
Final () (11)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Baxter tsye
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/t͡ɕiᴇ/
Pan
Wuyun
/t͡ɕiɛ/
Shao
Rongfen
/t͡ɕjɛ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ciə̆/
Li
Rong
/t͡ɕie/
Wang
Li
/t͡ɕǐe/
Bernhard
Karlgren
/t͡ɕie̯/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
zhī
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
zi1
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
zhī zhī
Middle
Chinese
‹ tsye › ‹ tsye ›
Old
Chinese
/*ke/ /*ke/
English support, hold up branch (of tree), limb

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. 17200
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*kje/

Definitions

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  1. to support; to bear; to sustain
  2. to disburse; to pay; to defray
  3. to prop up; to put up
  4. to send away; to put off somebody
  5. branch; limb; offshoot; subdivision
    alt. forms:
  6. a surname
  7. Classifier for long, thin objects.all nouns using this classifier
    alt. forms:
  8. Classifier for songs or musical pieces.
    [Cantonese, trad.]
    [Cantonese, simp.]
    coeng3 zi1 go1 lai4 teng1 haa5 aa1! [Jyutping]
    Sing a song for us!
  9. (Southern Min) Classifier for certain body parts.
    alt. forms:
    [Hokkien]  ―  chi̍t ki chhùi [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]  ―  a mouth
  10. (now usually derogatory and offensive) Short for 支那 (Zhīnà, “China”).
      ―  Yìnzhī  ―  Indochina
    滿親善亲善  ―  Rì Mǎn Zhī qīnshàn  ―  friendship among Japan, Manchuria and China
    警察警察  ―  zhīyǔ jǐngchá  ―  (Taiwan, Internet slang) people who like to correct or criticize the use of Mainland terms (literally, “Chink language police”)
  11. () (telegraphy) the fourth day of a month
Synonyms
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Compounds

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Descendants

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Sino-Xenic ():
  • Vietnamese: chi ()

Others:

  • Vietnamese: chia

Etymology 2

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For pronunciation and definitions of – see (“A unit of measurement.; to survey; to measure; etc.”).
(This character is an ancient form of ).

References

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Japanese

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Kanji

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(Fifth grade kyōiku kanji)

  1. (えだ): branch off; little pieces separated; a branch; hands and legs[1]
  2. (ささえる): support
  3. provide, payment
  4. (つかえる): be stuck
  5. the twelve earthly branches

Readings

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Derived terms

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Etymology

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Kanji in this term

Grade: 5
on'yomi

Affix

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() (shi

  1. (obsolete) China; Chinese

Synonyms

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References

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  1. ^ ”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎[1] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2024

Korean

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Hanja

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(eumhun 지탱할 (jitaenghal ji))

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Vietnamese

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Han character

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: Hán Nôm readings: chi

  1. chữ Hán form of chi (branch; to spend).

Compounds

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