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)

1. branches, limbs
2. branch off

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

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simp. and trad.		枝

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zhī, qí (zhi¹, qi²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄓ, ㄑㄧˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zi¹
• Hakka (Pha̍k-fa-sṳ): 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
    • Yale: jī
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzi¹
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡siː⁵⁵/
• Hakka
  • Romanisations:
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: kî
    • IPA (Siyen, including Miaoli): /ki²⁴/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ki
    • Tâi-lô: ki
    • IPA (Taipei): /ki⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /ki³⁴/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (枝, reconstructed)
Character (枝), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 章 (23) Final: 支 Division: III			Openness: Open Tone: Level (Ø)			Fanqie: 章移切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/t͡ɕiᴇ/	/t͡ɕie̯/	/t͡ɕie/	/t͡ɕiɛ/	/ciə̆/	/t͡ɕǐe/	/t͡ɕjɛ/

Old Chinese pronunciation (枝, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
枝								zhī								‹ tsye ›								/*ke/								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					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
枝					17201					支					支					0					支					/*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)

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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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