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[edit] Translingual

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[edit] Etymology

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Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 宀 (“roof”) + phonetic 子 (“child”). Also Ideogrammic compound (會意) – to give birth (child at home).

字 字 字 字
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script

Modern zì /ʦz̩˥˩/, Middle Chinese ʣɨ 去 (Pulleyblank), Old Chinese *zlɯ (Zhengzhang Shangfang), *dzjəgh (Li Fanggui). Original sense (1): "to become pregnant, to give birth to, to nurture, to love" has essentially become obsolete. The sense (2) "letter, character" is either from a different root or a derivation from the sense "to produce, to generate".

Cognate characters include: (1) 子 (zǐ, OC *sɯʔ, "child, son"), 慈 (cí, OC *zɯ, "to be kind, loving"), 滋 (zī, OC *sɯ, "to nourish, to grow"); (2) 詞 (cí, OC *ljɯ, "word, term"), 辭 (cí, OC *ljɯ, "word, from testimony"). Possible Sino-Tibetan cognates (Quan Guangzhen, 1996):

[edit] Han character

字 (radical 39 子+3, 6 strokes, cangjie input 十弓木 (JND), four-corner 30407, composition ⿱宀子)

  1. letter, character, word

[edit] References

  • KangXi: page 277, character 18
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6942
  • Dae Jaweon: page 545, character 7
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1010, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+5B57

[edit] Cantonese

simpl. and trad.
字

[edit] Hanzi

字 (jyutping zi6, Yale ji6)

[edit] Japanese

[edit] Etymology 1

Borrowed from Middle Chinese 字 with the southern pronunciation (kango, Go-on).

[edit] Noun

字 (hiragana じ, romaji ji)

  1. a letter, character
    この字は何と読みますか？
    このじはなんとよみますか？
    kono ji wa nanto yomimasuka?
    How do you pronounce this letter?
  2. handwriting
    彼女は字が上手い。
    かのじょはじがうまい。
    kanojo wa ji ga umai.
    She has good handwriting.

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字 (hiragana じ, romaji ji)

  1. letters, characters
    40字以内で書いてください。
    よんじゅうじいないでかいてください。
    yonjū-ji inai de kaite kudasai.
    Please write it down within 40 letters.

[edit] Kanji

字 (grade 1 “Kyōiku” kanji)

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  • 十字 (じゅうじ, jūji): cross
  • 字解 (じかい, jikai)
  • 字義 (じぎ, jigi): the meaning of a word
  • 字源 (じげん, jigen): the construction of a character
  • 字体 (じたい, jitai): font or lettering
  • 字典 (じてん, jiten): character dictionary
  • 字母 (じぼ, jibo): letter (of the alphabet)
  • 漢字 (かんじ, kanji): Chinese characters
    漢字返し (kanji-gaeshi) kanji repeater
  • 文字 (もじ, moji): letter, character, or ideograph
  • 字引 (じびき, jibiki): dictionary
  • 数字 (すうじ, sūji): numeral or number

[edit] Etymology 2

Shortened form of あざな azana "a section of a village" of ancient Japanese origin (wago).

[edit] Noun

字 (hiragana あざ, romaji aza)

  1. a section of a village
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[edit] Korean

[edit] Hanja

字
Eumhun:

  • Sound (hangeul): 자 (revised: ja, McCune-Reischauer: cha)

[edit] Late Middle Chinese

simpl. and trad.
字

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[edit] Noun

字 (Baxter dziH)

  1. Chinese writing
  2. Chinese character; Chinese characters
  3. (archaic) Chinese style name

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[edit] Mandarin

simpl. and trad.
字

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[edit] Hanzi

字 (pinyin zì (zi4), Wade-Giles tzu4)

[edit] Noun

字 (traditional and simplified, Pinyin zì)

  1. Chinese writing
  2. (Beginning Mandarin) Chinese character; Chinese characters
  3. -shaped
  4. ​ (archaic) Chinese style name

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[edit] Middle Chinese

[edit] Han character

字 (*dzhiə̀)

[edit] Min Nan

simpl. and trad.
字

[edit] Pronunciation

[edit] Noun

字 (traditional and simplified, POJ jī or lī)

  1. Chinese writing
  2. Chinese character; Chinese characters
  3. (archaic) Chinese style name

[edit] Derived terms

[edit] See also

[edit] Old Chinese

simpl. and trad.
字

[edit] Noun

字 (ʒǝh)

  1. Chinese writing
  2. Chinese character; Chinese characters
  3. (archaic) Chinese style name

[edit] Verb

字 (ʒǝh)

  1. (archaic) to give birth (to lay an egg, in the case of a bird)
  2. (archaic) to nurse
  3. (archaic) to nurture
  4. (archaic) to love
  5. (archaic) to marry; to wed
  6. (archaic) to educate

[edit] References

[edit] Vietnamese

[edit] Han character

字 (tự, chữ, tợ)

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[edit] References

  • Thiều Chửu : Hán Việt Tự Điển Hà Nội 1942
  • Trần Văn Chánh: Từ Điển Hán Việt NXB Trẻ, Ho Chi Minh Ville, 1999
  • Vũ Văn Kính: Đại Tự Điển Chữ Nôm , NXB Văn Nghệ, Ho Chi Minh Ville, 1999

[edit] Compounds

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