牸

牸 U+7278, 牸 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7278 ← 牷 [U+7277] CJK Unified Ideographs 特 → [U+7279]

Translingual

Han character

牸 (Kangxi radical 93, 牛+6, 10 strokes, cangjie input 竹手十弓木 (HQJND), four-corner 2354₇, composition ⿰牜字)

1. the female of certain animals
2. to bring forth young of animals

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 700, character 19
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 20012
• Dae Jaweon: page 1113, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1810, character 1
• Unihan data for U+7278

Chinese

simp. and trad.		牸

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (子) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
孜	*ʔslɯ
仔	*ʔslɯ, *ʔslɯʔ
孖	*ʔslɯ, *zlɯs
子	*ʔslɯʔ
虸	*ʔslɯʔ
耔	*ʔslɯʔ
秄	*ʔslɯʔ
杍	*ʔslɯʔ
籽	*ʔslɯʔ
字	*zlɯs
茡	*zlɯs
芓	*zlɯs
牸	*zlɯs
李	*rɯʔ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zì (zi⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄗˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zi⁶
• Eastern Min (BUC): cê

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zì
    • Zhuyin: ㄗˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: zìh
    • Wade–Giles: tzŭ⁴
    • Yale: dz̀
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tzyh
    • Palladius: цзы (czy)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sz̩⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: zi⁶
    • Yale: jih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzi⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: ji⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡siː²²/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: cê
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sɛi²⁴²/

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• Middle Chinese: dziH

Rime
Character	牸
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	從 (15)
Final (韻)	之 (19)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	疾置切
Baxter	dziH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/d͡zɨH/
Pan Wuyun	/d͡zɨH/
Shao Rongfen	/d͡zieH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/d͡zɨH/
Li Rong	/d͡ziəH/
Wang Li	/d͡zĭəH/
Bernard Karlgren	/d͡zʱiH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zì
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zi6

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*zlɯs/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	牸
Reading #	1/1
No.	17868
Phonetic component	子
Rime group	之
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	字
Old Chinese	/*zlɯs/

Definitions

牸

1. cow

   • 子欲速富，當畜五牸。 [MSC, trad.]
     子欲速富，当畜五牸。 [MSC, simp.]

     From: c. 3rd century BCE 孔鮒 Kong Fu , 《孔叢子》Kongcongzi The Many Masters Kong

     Zǐ yù sù fù, dāng xù wǔ zì. [Pinyin]

     If you want to be rich quickly, you should raise five cows!

2. female of certain animals

   • 犀字篆文象形其牸名兕 [Literary Chinese, trad. and simp.]

     From: The Compendium of Materia Medica [Bencao Gangmu], by Li Shizhen, 1578 CE

     Xī zì zhuànwén xiàngxíng qí zì míng sì [Pinyin]

     The character xī (犀 "rhinoceros") in seal-script is a pictograph; his female [counterpart] is called sì (兕)

Compounds

• 牸牛 (zìniú)
• 牸馬／牸马

 

Japanese

Kanji

牸

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): し (shi); じ (ji)
• Kun: めす (mesu)

Korean

Hanja

牸 • (ja) (hangeul 자, revised ja, McCune–Reischauer cha, Yale ca)

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