淄

Translingual

Han character

淄 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 水女女田 (EVVW), four-corner 3216₀, composition ⿰氵甾)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 629, character 4
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17616
• Dae Jaweon: page 1030, character 21
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1665, character 8
• Unihan data for U+6DC4

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		淄
alternative forms		甾

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

	Old Chinese
輜	*ʔsrɯ, *sʰrɯ
淄	*ʔsrɯ
錙	*ʔsrɯ
緇	*ʔsrɯ
甾	*ʔsrɯ
菑	*ʔsrɯ, *ʔsɯː, *ʔsɯː
鶅	*ʔsrɯ, *ʔsrɯs
椔	*ʔsrɯ, *ʔsrɯs
鯔	*ʔsrɯ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ʔsrɯ) : semantic 氵 (“water”) + phonetic 甾 (OC *ʔsrɯ).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zī (zi¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄗ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zi¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zī
    • Zhuyin: ㄗ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: zih
    • Wade–Giles: tzŭ¹
    • Yale: dz̄
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tzy
    • Palladius: цзы (czy)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sz̩⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: zi¹
    • Yale: jī
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzi¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: ji¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡siː⁵⁵/

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• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*ʔsrɯ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	淄
Reading #	1/1
No.	17821
Phonetic component	甾
Rime group	之
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	葘
Old Chinese	/*ʔsrɯ/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 淄

1. Zi River, a river in Shandong province

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Japanese

Kanji

淄

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): し (shi)

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Korean

Hanja

淄 (eum 치 (chi))

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Vietnamese

Han character

淄: Hán Nôm readings: chuy, truy

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Further reading

• Nom Foundation