沚

沚 U+6C9A, 沚 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6C9A ← 沙 [U+6C99] CJK Unified Ideographs 沛 → [U+6C9B]

Translingual

Han character

沚 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+4, 7 strokes, Cangjie input 水卜中一 (EYLM), four-corner 3111₀, composition ⿰氵止)

1. islet
2. small sandbar

Derived characters

• 鿊

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 612, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17213
• Dae Jaweon: page 1005, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1562, character 6
• Unihan data for U+6C9A

Chinese

simp. and trad.		沚
alternative forms		阯

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 沚
Shang	Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script

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

	Old Chinese
祉	*kʰlɯʔ
址	*kjɯʔ
止	*kjɯʔ
趾	*kjɯʔ
芷	*kjɯʔ
沚	*kjɯʔ
阯	*kjɯʔ
齒	*kʰjɯʔ
紕	*be, *pʰi, *kʰjɯʔ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zhǐ (zhi³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄓˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zi²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zhǐ
    • Zhuyin: ㄓˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jhǐh
    • Wade–Giles: chih³
    • Yale: jř
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jyy
    • Palladius: чжи (čži)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʐ̩²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: zi²
    • Yale: jí
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzi²
    • Guangdong Romanization: ji²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡siː³⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: tsyiX

Rime
Character	沚
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	章 (23)
Final (韻)	之 (19)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	諸市切
Baxter	tsyiX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡ɕɨX/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡ɕɨX/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡ɕieX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/cɨX/
Li Rong	/t͡ɕiəX/
Wang Li	/t͡ɕĭəX/
Bernhard Karlgren	/t͡ɕiX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zhǐ
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zi2

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*kjɯʔ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	沚
Reading #	1/1
No.	17300
Phonetic component	止
Rime group	之
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	止
Old Chinese	/*kjɯʔ/

Definitions

沚

1. (literary) small islet

Japanese

Kanji

沚

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: し (shi)
• Kan-on: し (shi)
• Kun: なぎさ (nagisa)

Korean

Hanja

沚 (eum 지 (ji))

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Vietnamese

Han character

沚: Hán Việt readings: chỉ, thử
沚: Nôm readings: chảy, chẩy, sạch, chải, chạy

1. chữ Nôm form of chải (“to comb or brush (hair)”)
2. chữ Nôm form of chảy (“to flow; to stream; to melt”)
3. chữ Nôm form of trẩy
   1. to go (to a festival)
   2. (archaic) to march
   3. (archaic) to travel (to a faraway place); embark (on a pilgrimage)