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[edit] Translingual

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[edit] Etymology

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

[edit] Han character

(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 .

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[edit] References

  • 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

[edit] Cantonese

[edit] Hanzi

(jyutping zi6, Yale ji6)


[edit] Japanese

[edit] Kanji

(grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

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[edit] Korean

[edit] Hanja

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

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[edit] Mandarin

[edit] Hanzi

(pinyin (zi4), Wade-Giles tzu4)

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[edit] Vietnamese

[edit] Han character

(tự, từ, tợ)

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