戠

戠 U+6220, 戠 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6220 ← 戟 [U+621F] CJK Unified Ideographs 戡 → [U+6221]

Translingual

Han character

戠 (Kangxi radical 62, 戈+9, 13 strokes, cangjie input 卜日戈 (YAI), four-corner 0365₀, composition ⿰音戈)

1. yellow clay

Derived characters

• 嬂 (𡛰), 幟 (帜), 旘, 樴 (枳), 熾 (炽), 膱 (胑), 織 (织), 職 (职), 蟙 (𧊄), 識 (识), 軄 (𨈪)

Additional Derived Characters

• 𡑌, 𢡠 (怾), 𢴠 (抧), 𣽚 (𣲵), 𪼞, 𥋏, 𥢧, 𧝊 (𧙋), 𮶚, 𧸉, 𧹹, 𮢿 (𰽨), 𩞡 (𬲬)
• 𡑠, 𱳓, 𫤶, 𦺿 (𦭜), 𬥭, 𩯈 (𩬫), 𣄞, 𢨀, 𤎷, 𧬣

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 413, character 16
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11615
• Dae Jaweon: page 756, character 10
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1409, character 4
• Unihan data for U+6220

Chinese

trad.		戠
simp. #		戠
nonstandard simp.		只

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 戠
Shang	Western Zhou	Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Chu slip and silk script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

	Old Chinese
識	*tjɯɡs, *hljɯɡ
幟	*tjɯɡs, *tʰjɯɡs, *hljɯɡs
織	*tjɯɡs, *tjɯɡ
熾	*tʰjɯɡs
樴	*dɯːɡ, *tjɯɡ
職	*tjɯɡ
軄	*tjɯɡ
戠	*tjɯɡ
膱	*tjɯɡ
蟙	*tjɯɡ

Ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意): 音 + 戈 (the second component was originally 弋, a wooden pole with a pointed end to be implanted in the ground and not a weapon). The original meaning is preserved in the character 樴, also written as 杙.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zhī, zhí (zhi¹, zhi²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄓ, ㄓˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zik¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zhī
    • Zhuyin: ㄓ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jhih
    • Wade–Giles: chih¹
    • Yale: jr̄
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jy
    • Palladius: чжи (čži)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʐ̩⁵⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zhí
    • Zhuyin: ㄓˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jhíh
    • Wade–Giles: chih²
    • Yale: jŕ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jyr
    • Palladius: чжи (čži)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʐ̩³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: zik¹
    • Yale: jīk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzik⁷
    • Guangdong Romanization: jig¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sɪk̚⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: tsyik

Rime
Character	戠
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	章 (23)
Final (韻)	職 (134)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	之翼切
Baxter	tsyik
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡ɕɨk̚/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡ɕɨk̚/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡ɕiek̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/cik̚/
Li Rong	/t͡ɕiək̚/
Wang Li	/t͡ɕĭək̚/
Bernhard Karlgren	/t͡ɕi̯ək̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zhi
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zik1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*tək/

  (Zhengzhang): /*tjɯɡ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	戠
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	shì
Middle Chinese	‹ tsyik ›
Old Chinese	/*tək/
English	adhere (?)
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	戠
Reading #	1/1
No.	17254
Phonetic component	戠
Rime group	職
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	職
Old Chinese	/*tjɯɡ/
Notes	甲金文象以刻刀辛在戈上刻標記， 爲識初文，用張雪明1979說

Definitions

戠

1. (obsolete) sword
2. (obsolete) to gather
3. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of 埴 (zhí, “potter's clay”)

Usage notes

• Characters using 戠 as the phonetic component are replaced by 只 instead in simplified Chinese. The original meaning of this character was "wooden pole with a pointed end" and is preserved in 樴 and 樁.

References

• (Cantonese) Jyutping Database (iso10646hk.net) - Cantonese Pronunciation List (Part 2), p. 111

Japanese

Kanji

戠

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. sword
2. potter's clay
3. to gather

Readings

• Go-on: しき (shiki)、し (shi)
• Kan-on: しょく (shoku)、し (shi)

Korean

Hanja

戠 • (si) (hangeul 시, revised si, McCune–Reischauer si, Yale si)

1. clay