姿

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): phonetic 次 + semantic 女 (“woman”) – a woman’s manner, carriage, bearing.

Han character

姿 (radical 38 女+6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 戈人女 (IOV), 一人女 (MOV), four-corner 3740₄, composition ⿱次女)

1. one's manner, carriage, bearing

Related characters

• 次 盗

References

• KangXi: page 261, character 22
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6257
• Dae Jaweon: page 527, character 25
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1047, character 6
• Unihan data for U+59FF

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Cantonese

Hanzi

姿 (Yale ji1)

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Japanese

Kanji

姿 (grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: し (shi)
• Kun: すがた (sugata)

Noun

姿 (hiragana すがた, romaji sugata)

1. figure, appearance, form, aspect, shape

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Korean

Hanja

姿 (hangeul 자, revised ja, McCune-Reischauer cha)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

姿 (pinyin zī (zi1), Wade-Giles tzu¹)

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Vietnamese

Han character

姿 (tư)