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Translingual [edit]

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Etymology [edit]

Originally Pictogram (象形) of a nose; in China (and East Asia) one points at one’s nose to indicate oneself, hence Ideogram (指事) of “self”.

Original meaning of “nose” has been lost; compare (originally “acorn”, now “white”).

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Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script

Han character [edit]

(radical 132 +0, 6 strokes, cangjie input 竹月山 (HBU), four-corner 26000)

  1. self, private, personal
  2. from
  3. (obsolete) nose
    This character has lost its original meaning of nose; see instead .

Derived characters [edit]

Related characters [edit]

References [edit]

  • KangXi: page 1000, character 7
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30095
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1452, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3046, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+81EA

Cantonese [edit]

Hanzi [edit]

(jyutping zi6, Yale ji6)


Hakka [edit]

Hanzi [edit]

(POJ tshṳ̀, Guangdong tse5 [Meixian], ts'it7, ts'ii6 [Hailu], ts'it7, ts'ii5 [Siyan], ts'ii5 [Kwangtung], ts'u3 [Bao'an, Dongguan], ts'u5, ts'i2 [Hong Kong], Hagfa Pinyim ci2, ci4, cid5)

References [edit]


Japanese [edit]

Kanji [edit]

(grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings [edit]

Compounds [edit]


Korean [edit]

Hanja [edit]

(hangeul , revised ja, McCune-Reischauer cha, Yale ca)

Compounds [edit]


Mandarin [edit]

Hanzi [edit]

(pinyin (zi4), Wade-Giles tzu4)

Compounds [edit]


Vietnamese [edit]

Han character [edit]

(tự, từ, tợ)