軹

See also: 轵

軹 U+8EF9, 軹 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8EF9 ← 軸 [U+8EF8] CJK Unified Ideographs 軺 → [U+8EFA]

Translingual

Han character

軹 (Kangxi radical 159, 車+5, 12 strokes, cangjie input 十十口金 (JJRC), four-corner 5608₀, composition ⿰車只)

1. the end of an axle
2. divergent

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1242, character 15
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 38271
• Dae Jaweon: page 1718, character 6
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3521, character 3
• Unihan data for U+8EF9

Chinese

trad.		軹
simp.		轵

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
只	*klje, *kljeʔ
胑	*klje
疻	*klje, *klji
軹	*kljeʔ
咫	*kljeʔ
枳	*kljeʔ, *kleʔ
抧	*kljeʔ
伿	*kljes, *les
齞	*ŋleːnʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *kljeʔ): semantic 車 (“cart”) + phonetic 只 (OC *klje, *kljeʔ).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zhǐ (zhi³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄓˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zi²
• Eastern Min (BUC): cī
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): zi³
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): chí

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zhǐ
    • Zhuyin: ㄓˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jhǐh
    • Wade–Giles: chih³
    • Yale: jř
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jyy
    • Palladius: чжи (čži)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʐ̩²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: zi²
    • Yale: jí
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzi²
    • Guangdong Romanization: ji²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡siː³⁵/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: cī
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡si³³/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: zi³
    • Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: cî
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡si⁴⁵³/
  • (Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: zi³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡si³³²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chí
    • Tâi-lô: tsí
    • Phofsit Daibuun: cie
    • IPA (Xiamen): /t͡si⁵³/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡si⁵⁵⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡si⁵³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡si⁵³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡si⁴¹/

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• Middle Chinese: tsyeX

Rime
Character	軹
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	章 (23)
Final (韻)	支 (11)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	諸氏切
Baxter	tsyeX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡ɕiᴇX/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡ɕiɛX/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡ɕjɛX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ciə̆X/
Li Rong	/t͡ɕieX/
Wang Li	/t͡ɕǐeX/
Bernhard Karlgren	/t͡ɕie̯X/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zhǐ
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zi2

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*kljeʔ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	軹
Reading #	1/1
No.	17308
Phonetic component	只
Rime group	支
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	紙
Old Chinese	/*kljeʔ/

Definitions

軹

1. (literary) end of an axle

Compounds

• 軹城 / 轵城 (Zhǐchéng, “Zhicheng”)
• 軹道 / 轵道 (Zhǐ Dào)
• 軹首蛇 / 轵首蛇

References

• William Campbell (1913) A dictionary of the Amoy vernacular spoken throughout the prefectures of Chin-Chiu, Chiang-Chiu and Formosa (in Hokkien), 8th edition, Tainan: Taiwan Church Press, published 1961, →OCLC, page 51.
• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “轵”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 309.
• “軹”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Japanese

Kanji

軹

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): し (shi)、き (ki)、しん (shin)
• Kun: あな (ana)、じくがしら (jikugashira)

Korean

Hanja

軹 • (ji) (hangeul 지, revised ji, McCune–Reischauer chi, Yale ci)

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Vietnamese

Han character

軹: Hán Việt readings: chỉ

1. chữ Hán form of chỉ (“axle end”).