枝

See also: 支

Translingual

Han character

枝 (radical 75 木+4, 8 strokes, cangjie input 木十水 (DJE), four-corner 4494₇, composition ⿰木支)

References

• KangXi: page 516, character 12
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14557
• Dae Jaweon: page 904, character 6
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1165, character 7
• Unihan data for U+679D

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		枝

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zhī, qí (zhi¹, qi²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄓ, ㄑㄧˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zi¹, kei⁴
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): kî
• Min Nan (POJ): ki

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: zhī
    • Zhuyin: ㄓ
    • Wade-Giles: chih¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jy
    • IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʐ̩⁵⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: qí
    • Zhuyin: ㄑㄧˊ
    • Wade-Giles: ch'ih²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chyi
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰi³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: zi¹, kei⁴
    • Yale: jī, kèih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzi¹, kei⁴
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡siː⁵⁵/, /kʰei̯²¹/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: kî
    • Hakka Romanization System: gi´
    • Hagfa Pinyim: gi¹
    • IPA: /ki²⁴/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ki
    • Tâi-lô: ki
    • Phofsit Daibuun: ky
    • IPA (Taipei): /ki⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /ki⁴⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: /t͡ɕiᴇ/▼

Rime
Character	枝
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	章 (23)
Final (韻)	支 (11)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	章移切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡ɕiᴇ/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡ɕiɛ/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡ɕjɛ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ciə̆/
Li Rong	/t͡ɕie/
Wang Li	/t͡ɕǐe/
Bernard Karlgren	/t͡ɕie̯/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zhī

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter-Sagart): /*ke/

  (Zhengzhang): /*kje/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	枝
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	zhī
Middle Chinese	‹ tsye ›
Old Chinese	/*ke/
English	branch (of tree)
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	枝
Reading #	1/1
No.	17201
Phonetic component	支
Rime group	支
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	支
Old Chinese	/*kje/

Noun

枝

1. branch; twig

   柳枝低垂在水面上。 [MSC, trad. and simp.]

   Liǔ zhī dīchuí zài shuǐmiàn shàng. [Pinyin]

   The branches of the willows drooped over the water.

   他把不結果的枝都修剪掉。 [MSC, trad.]

   他把不结果的枝都修剪掉。 [MSC, simp.]

   Tā bǎ bù jiéguǒ de zhī dōu xiūjiǎn diào. [Pinyin]

   He pruned every branch that did not bear fruit.

Classifier

枝

1. classifier for long and round objects (stick, pen, rod, flower with stem, etc)

   一枝鉛筆 / 一枝铅笔  ―  yī zhī qiānbǐ  ―  a pencil

   一枝槍 / 一枝枪  ―  yī zhī qiāng  ―  a gun

Compounds

• 荔枝 (lìzhī)
• 樹枝／树枝 (shùzhī)

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Japanese

枝

Kanji

枝

(grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. branch, limbs

Readings

• Goon: し (shi), ぎ (gi)
• Kan’on: し (shi), き (ki)
• Kun: えだ (eda)
• Nanori: え (e), えだ (eda), き (ki), しげ (shige), しな (shina)

References

• Shift_JIS: 8E7D
• JIS: 3B5E

Noun

枝 ‎(hiragana えだ, romaji eda)

1. branch, limbs
2. (graph theory) edge

Coordinate terms

• 葉 (は) ‎(ha, “leaf”)

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Korean

Hanja

枝 • ‎(ji) (hangeul 지, revised ji, McCune-Reischauer chi, Yale ci)

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Vietnamese

Han character

枝 (chi, che)

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