黹

Translingual

Stroke order

Etymology

Ideogrammic compound (會意): 丵 + 㡀 (“damaged clothes”)

Han character

黹 (radical 204 黹+0, 12 strokes, cangjie input 廿金火月 (TCFB), four-corner 3222₇)

1. embroidery, needlework
2. used as a radical

Derived terms

• Index:Chinese radical/黹

References

• KangXi: page 1522, character 45
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 48248
• Dae Jaweon: page 2058, character 11
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4738, character 1
• Unihan data for U+9EF9

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Chinese

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simp. and trad.		黹

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zhǐ (zhi³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄓˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zi²
• Hakka (Pha̍k-fa-sṳ): chí
• Min Nan (POJ): chí

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: zhǐ
    • Zhuyin: ㄓˇ
    • Wade-Giles: chih³
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jyy
    • IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʐ̩²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: zi²
    • Yale: jí
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzi²
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡siː³⁵/
• Hakka
  • Romanisations:
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chí
    • IPA (Siyen, incl. Miaoli): /t͡ɕi³¹/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chí
    • Tâi-lô: tsí
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡ɕi⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡ɕi⁵³/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (黹, reconstructed)
Character (黹), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 知 (9) Final: 脂 Division: III			Openness: Open Tone: Rising (X)			Fanqie: 豬几切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/ʈiɪX/	/ȶiX/	/ȶiX/	/ʈiX/	/ʈiX/	/ȶiX/	/ȶjɪX/

Old Chinese pronunciation (黹, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
黹								zhǐ								‹ trijX ›								/*tr[i]jʔ/								embroidery
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
黹					17335					黹					脂					2					黹					/*tiʔ/

References

• (Min Nan) Taiwan Min Nan Common Words Dictionary (臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典)

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Japanese

Kanji

黹

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. embroidery, needlework

Readings

• On: ち (chi)
• Kun: ぬう (nuu), ぬい (nui)

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Vietnamese

Han character

黹 (chỉ)

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