ㄓ

See also: 㞢, 之, and ㄭ

ㄓ U+3113, ㄓ BOPOMOFO LETTER ZH ← ㄒ [U+3112] Bopomofo ㄔ → [U+3114]

Translingual

Stroke order

Stroke order (unofficial)

Letter

ㄓ

1. type: initial consonant
2. general transliteration: zh
3. keyboard key: 5

Descendants

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Chinese

Glyph origin

Derived from 㞢, a historic form of 之 (zhī) (Mandarin: zhī).

Etymology

Initial consonant derived from 之 (zhī) (Mandarin: zhī) + rhyme.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zhī (zhi¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄓ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zhī
    • Zhuyin: ㄓ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jhih
    • Wade–Giles: chih¹
    • Yale: jr̄
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jy
    • Palladius: чжи (čži)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʐ̩⁵⁵/

Letter

1. 15th letter of the Zhuyin alphabet
2. 23rd letter of the extended Zhuyin alphabet

Phoneme

1. (when followed by a rhyme) Sound IPA^(key): /ʈ͡ʂ/ (Pinyin: zh), which is present in Standard Chinese, but not in other dialects.
2. (when standing alone) Sound IPA^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʐ̩/ (Pinyin: zhi).

   alt. forms: ㄓㄭ obsolete, analytic

3. (Hakka) Sound IPA^(key): /t͡ʃ/ (Pinyin: zh)

References

• 全國主要方言區方音對照表, Chinese Character Reform Commission, Beijing: ZhonghuaBook Company, 1954
• Unicode Bopomofo block description: https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U3100.pdf

Northern Qiandong Miao

Letter

1. 18th letter of the Hmu Zhuyin alphabet.

Phoneme

1. sound IPA^(key): /ʈ͡ʂ/ (Hutton): ts

References

• Joakim Enwall, A Myth Become Reality Vol.1 (Stockholm, 1994) page 198