咫

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咫 U+54AB, 咫
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-54AB
← 咪
[U+54AA] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 咬 →
[U+54AC]

Translingual

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Han character

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咫 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 尸人口金 (SORC), four-corner 76808, composition ⿺尺只)

References

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  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 186, character 15
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3542
  • Dae Jaweon: page 405, character 36
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 624, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+54AB

Chinese

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trad. 咫
simp. # 咫
alternative forms 𣥉
𦐖
𰭠

Glyph origin

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Characters in the same phonetic series (只) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
只 *klje, *kljeʔ
胑 *klje
疻 *klje, *klji
軹 *kljeʔ
咫 *kljeʔ
枳 *kljeʔ, *kleʔ
抧 *kljeʔ
伿 *kljes, *les
齞 *ŋleːnʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *kljeʔ) : semantic 尺 (“ruler; measuring stick”) + phonetic 只 (OC *klje, *kljeʔ)

Pronunciation

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Rime
Character 咫
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 章 (23)
Final (韻) 支 (11)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 諸氏切
Baxter tsyeX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/t͡ɕiᴇX/
Pan
Wuyun 		/t͡ɕiɛX/
Shao
Rongfen 		/t͡ɕjɛX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/ciə̆X/
Li
Rong 		/t͡ɕieX/
Wang
Li 		/t͡ɕǐeX/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/t͡ɕie̯X/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		zhǐ
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		zi2
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 咫
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		zhǐ
Middle
Chinese 		‹ tsyeX ›
Old
Chinese 		/*keʔ/
English foot (8 inches)

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 咫
Reading # 1/1
No. 17309
Phonetic
component 		只
Rime
group 		支
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		紙
Old
Chinese 		/*kljeʔ/

Definitions

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咫

  1. unit of measurement during the Zhou dynasty, equal to eight cun/tsun (寸)
  2. † few; little
    Synonym: 少
  3. † short
    Synonym: 短 (duǎn)

Compounds

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Japanese

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Japanese Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia ja

Kanji

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咫

(Hyōgai kanji)

Readings

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  • Go-on: し (shi)←し (si, historical)
  • Kan-on: し (shi)←し (si, historical)
  • Kun: あた (ata, 咫)、た (ta, 咫)

Compounds

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Etymology 1

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Kanji in this term
咫
あた
Hyōgai
kun'yomi
Alternative spelling
尺 (uncommon)

From Old Japanese. First cited to the Kojiki of 712, with the phonetic spelling 阿多 (ata).[1][2]

Possibly derived from verb 当つ (atu, “to place one thing against another; to touch, to come into contact”, modern verb pair 当てる (ateru, transitive), 当たる (ataru, intransitive)), from the sense of placing one's hand against something to measure it.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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咫(あた) • (ata) 

  1. [from 712] (historical, archaic) roughly corresponds to the hand (traditional unit of length; in Japan, described as originally the distance from the tip of the thumb to the tip of the middle finger (or possibly index finger) with the hand outstretched,[1][2][3][4] often defined as eight 寸 (sun, “traditional inch”) or roughly 18cm[2])

Etymology 2

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Kanji in this term
咫
た
Hyōgai
kun'yomi

From Old Japanese. Appears to be a shortening of ata.[1]

Pronunciation

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Affix

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咫(た) • (ta) 

  1. (historical, archaic) roughly corresponds to the hand (traditional unit of length; in Japan, described as originally the distance from the tip of the thumb to the tip of the middle finger (or possibly index finger) with the hand outstretched,[1][2][3][4] often defined as eight 寸 (sun, “traditional inch”) or roughly 18cm[2])
Usage notes
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This shortened reading ta seems to only appear in compounds.

Derived terms
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Etymology 3

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Kanji in this term
咫
し
Hyōgai
on'yomi

From Middle Chinese 咫 (MC tsyeX).

Pronunciation

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Affix

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咫(し) • (shi) 

  1. (historical, archaic) roughly corresponds to the hand (traditional unit of length; in Japan, described as originally the distance from the tip of the thumb to the tip of the middle finger (or possibly index finger) with the hand outstretched,[1][2][3][4] often defined as eight 寸 (sun, “traditional inch”) or roughly 18cm[2])
Usage notes
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Only appears in compounds.

Derived terms
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  • 咫尺 (shiseki, “nearby; a short distance”)

References

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 “咫・尺”, in 日本国語大辞典‎[1] (in Japanese), concise edition, Tokyo: Shogakukan, 2006
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 Shinmura, Izuru, editor (1998), 広辞苑 (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, →ISBN
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 “咫”, in デジタル大辞泉‎[2] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, updated roughly every four months
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean

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Etymology

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From Middle Chinese 咫 (MC tsyeX).

Pronunciation

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Hanja

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Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

Wikisource

咫 (eumhun 여덟 치 지 (yeodeol chi ji))

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Compounds

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References

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Vietnamese

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Han character

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咫: Hán Việt readings: chỉ[1]
咫: Nôm readings: chỉ[1]

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References

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Trần (2004).
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