志

See also 誌

Translingual

Stroke order

simplified	志
traditional	志 or 誌

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): phonetic 止 + semantic 心.

Note that the top has been simplified and is now graphically 士 (the left vertical mark has migrated up the main vertical, becoming horizontal). This simplified form is found in seal characters, where it coexisted with forms where the top was more recognizably 止.

Also simplified from Simplified from 誌 (言 → [[ ]]) (elimination of 言).

Han character

志 (radical 61 心+3, 7 strokes, cangjie input 土心 (GP), four-corner 4033₁, composition ⿰士心)

1. purpose, will, determination, aspiration, ambition
2. to write, to record (simplification of 誌)

References

• KangXi: page 376, character 21
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 10331
• Dae Jaweon: page 703, character 7
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2269, character 4
• Unihan data for U+5FD7

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Cantonese

Hanzi

志 (traditional 誌, Yale ji3)

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Japanese

Kanji

志 (grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: し (shi)
• Kun: 志す, こころざす (kokorozasu), こころざし (kokorozashi), しるす (shirusu)

Compounds

素志 (そし, soshi) 夙志 (しゅくし, shukushi) 宿志 (しゅくし, shukushi) 意志 (いし, ishi, “will, intent”)

闘志 (とうし, tōshi) 遺志 (いし, ishi) 同志 (どうし, dōshi) 志士 (しし, shishi)

異志 (いし, ishi) 言志 (げんし, genshi) 壮志 (そうし, sōshi)

Trivia

This is one of only two kanji with a 5 morae reading, and the only noun, namely 志 (こころざし, kokorozashi) (nominalization of form of verb 志す (こころざす, kokorozasu), which has a 4 morae reading). The only other kanji with a 5 morae reading is 承, in the verb 承る (（うけたまわ）る, uketamawa-ru), and no kanji have a 6 or more morae reading.

The unusually long reading is due to 志 being a nominalization of the verb 志す which has a long reading (4 morae, kokoroza-su), the nominalization removing the okurigana, hence increasing the reading by one morae, yielding 4+1=5 (compare common 話 (はなし, hanashi) 2+1=3, from 話す (はなす, hana-su)).

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Korean

Hanja

志 (hangeul 지, revised ji, McCune-Reischauer chi, Yale ci)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

志 (traditional 誌, pinyin zhì (zhi4), Wade-Giles chih⁴)

Compounds

Traditional 志:

• 同志 (comrade)
• 意志 (will; purpose)
• 有志竟成 (Where there's a will, there's a way.)

Traditional 誌:

• 杂志 (magazine, traditional 雜誌)
• 标志 (symbol; sign mark, traditional 標誌)
• 日志 (journal, traditional 日誌)