枝

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枝 U+679D, 枝
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-679D
← 果
[U+679C]		 CJK Unified Ideographs 枞 →
[U+679E]
See also: 支

Translingual[edit]

Han character[edit]

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

References[edit]

  • 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

Chinese[edit]

simp. and trad.
 枝

Glyph origin[edit]

Historical forms of the character 枝
Large seal script Small seal script
枝-bigseal.svg 枝-seal.svg
Characters in the same phonetic series (支) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
支 *kje
枝 *kje
肢 *kje
汥 *kje, *ɡe, *ɡres
衼 *kje
馶 *kje, *qʰjes, *kes, *ɡe
鳷 *kje
忮 *kjes
伎 *kjes, *ɡe, *ɡreʔ
豉 *ɡjes
翅 *qʰjes
翄 *qʰjes, *ɡe
妓 *kre, *ɡreʔ
庋 *kreʔ, *kʷreʔ
跂 *kʰeʔ, *kʰes, *ɡe
蚑 *kʰes, *ɡe
吱 *kʰes
岐 *ɡe
歧 *ɡe
鬾 *ɡre, *ɡres
技 *ɡreʔ
芰 *ɡres
攱 *kʷreʔ, *kʷres
庪 *kʷreʔ
頍 *kʰʷeʔ
屐 *ɡreɡ

Pronunciation 1[edit]

Note:
  • ki - vernacular;
  • chi - literary.
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
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/

Definitions[edit]

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.
  2. Classifier for long cylindrical 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
  3. A surname​.

Compounds[edit]

Derived terms from 枝

Pronunciation 2[edit]

Definitions[edit]

枝

  1. Alternative form of 跂 (qí, “extra toe”).
  2. Alternative form of 歧 (qí, “divergent”).

Japanese[edit]

枝

Kanji[edit]

枝

(grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. branch, limbs

Readings[edit]

References[edit]

Noun[edit]

枝 (hiragana えだ, rōmaji eda)

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

Coordinate terms[edit]

Korean[edit]

Hanja[edit]

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

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Vietnamese[edit]

Han character[edit]

枝 (chi, che)

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