滋滋

Chinese

		excite; nourish; this	excite; nourish; this
simp. and trad. (滋滋)		滋	滋

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zīzī

  (Zhuyin): ㄗ ㄗ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zi¹ zi¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zīzī
    • Zhuyin: ㄗ ㄗ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: zihzih
    • Wade–Giles: tzŭ¹-tzŭ¹
    • Yale: dz̄-dz̄
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tzytzy
    • Palladius: цзыцзы (czyczy)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sz̩⁵⁵ t͡sz̩⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: zi¹ zi¹
    • Yale: jī jī
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzi¹ dzi¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: ji¹ ji¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡siː⁵⁵ t͡siː⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: tsi tsi

Rime
Character	滋
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	精 (13)
Final (韻)	之 (19)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	子之切
Baxter	tsi
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡sɨ/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡sɨ/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡sie/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/t͡sɨ/
Li Rong	/t͡siə/
Wang Li	/t͡sĭə/
Bernhard Karlgren	/t͡si/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zī
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zi1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[ts]ə  [ts]ə/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ʔsɯ  ʔsɯ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	滋
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	zī
Middle Chinese	‹ tsi ›
Old Chinese	/*[ts]ə/
English	abundant
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	滋
Reading #	1/1
No.	17836
Phonetic component	兹
Rime group	之
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	兹
Old Chinese	/*ʔsɯ/

Adjective

滋滋

1. (literary, ideophonic) diligent; assiduous
2. (literary, ideophonic) interested; contented; happy

Derived terms

• 喜滋滋 (xǐzīzī)
• 樂滋滋／乐滋滋 (lèzīzī)
• 潤滋滋／润滋滋
• 甜滋滋 (tiánzīzī)
• 癢滋滋／痒滋滋
• 美滋滋 (měizīzī)
• 黑滋滋

 

Noun

滋滋

1. An onomatopoeia.