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[edit] Translingual
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[edit] Etymology
Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 宀 (“roof”) + phonetic 子 (“child”). Also Ideogrammic compound (會意) – to give birth (child at home).
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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):
- Written Tibetan ཚ་བོ (tsha bo, "nephew")
- Written Tibetan ཚ་རུས (tsha rus, "descendant")
- Written Tibetan བཙའ་བ (btsa' ba, "to give birth to; to guard")
- Written Tibetan མཛའ་བ (mdza' ba, "kind, peaceful, friendly")
[edit] Han character
字 (radical 39 子+3, 6 strokes, cangjie input 十弓木 (JND), four-corner 30407, composition ⿱宀子)
[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
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[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
- 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?
- この字は何と読みますか?
- 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.
- 彼女は字が上手い。
[edit] Counter
- 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.
- 40字以内で書いてください。
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[edit] Compounds
- 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).
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[edit] Hanja
字
Eumhun:
- Sound (hangeul): 자 (revised: ja, McCune-Reischauer: cha)
- Name (hangeul): 글자()
[edit] Late Middle Chinese
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[edit] Pronunciation
- IPA: [ dzi ]
[edit] Noun
字 (Baxter dziH)
- Chinese writing
- Chinese character; Chinese characters
- (archaic) Chinese style name
[edit] References
- http://www-personal.umich.edu/~wbaxter/pdf/d181-188.pdf
- http://xiang.free.fr/leiden-en.pdf
- http://www.swarthmore.edu/SocSci/Linguistics/papers/2004/anderson.pdf (dead link)
[edit] Mandarin
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[edit] Pronunciation
[edit] Hanzi
字 (pinyin zì (zi4), Wade-Giles tzu4)
[edit] Noun
字 (traditional and simplified, Pinyin zì)
- Chinese writing
- (Beginning Mandarin) Chinese character; Chinese characters
- -shaped
- (archaic) Chinese style name
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[edit] See also
[edit] Middle Chinese
[edit] Han character
字 (*dzhiə̀)
[edit] Min Nan
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[edit] Pronunciation
[edit] Noun
字 (traditional and simplified, POJ jī or lī)
- Chinese writing
- Chinese character; Chinese characters
- (archaic) Chinese style name
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[edit] Old Chinese
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[edit] Noun
字 (ʒǝh)
- Chinese writing
- Chinese character; Chinese characters
- (archaic) Chinese style name
[edit] Verb
字 (ʒǝh)
- (archaic) to give birth (to lay an egg, in the case of a bird)
- (archaic) to nurse
- (archaic) to nurture
- (archaic) to love
- (archaic) to marry; to wed
- (archaic) to educate
[edit] References
- http://www.chinese-tools.com/tools/chinese-dictionary/dico_字.html
- http://140.111.34.46/cgi-bin/dict/GetContent.cgi?Database=dict&DocNum=130109&GraphicWord=yes&QueryString=字
[edit] Vietnamese
[edit] Han character
[edit] Readings
[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
- Entries lacking sources
- Han phono-semantic compounds
- Han ideogrammic compounds
- Pages with broken file links
- Han characters
- Cantonese definitions needed
- Japanese nouns
- Japanese counters
- Grade 1 kanji
- Japanese kanji
- 1000 Japanese basic words
- Korean hanja
- Korean definitions needed
- Late Middle Chinese nouns
- Late Middle Chinese archaic terms
- Mandarin nouns in simplified script
- Mandarin nouns in traditional script
- Mandarin nouns
- Chinese hanzi
- cmn:Beginning Mandarin
- cmn:Beginning Mandarin in traditional script
- cmn:Beginning Mandarin in simplified script
- Mandarin archaic terms
- Mandarin archaic terms in traditional script
- Mandarin archaic terms in simplified script
- Mandarin entries with audio links
- Min Nan nouns in simplified script
- Min Nan nouns in traditional script
- Min Nan nouns
- Min Nan archaic terms
- Old Chinese nouns
- Old Chinese archaic terms
- Old Chinese verbs
- Vietnamese Han tu
- Vietnamese definitions needed