磁

Translingual

Han character

磁 (Kangxi radical 112, 石+9, 14 strokes, cangjie input 一口廿女戈 (MRTVI), four-corner 1863₂, composition ⿰石兹)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 834, character 14
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 24364
• Dae Jaweon: page 1251, character 11
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2445, character 6
• Unihan data for U+78C1

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		磁

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
糍	*zi
茲	*ʔsɯ, *zɯ
滋	*ʔsɯ
孳	*ʔsɯ, *zɯs
嵫	*ʔsɯ
嗞	*ʔsɯ
鎡	*ʔsɯ
鰦	*ʔsɯ
鶿	*ʔsɯ, *zɯ
稵	*ʔsɯ, *ʔsɯw
螆	*sʰɯs
慈	*zɯ
鷀	*zɯ
磁	*zɯ
礠	*zlɯ
濨	*zlɯ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *zɯ) : semantic 石 (“rock; stone”) + phonetic 兹 (OC *ʔsɯ, *zɯ).

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 磁

1. ^† magnet
2. magnetism
3. (deprecated template usage) Alternative form of 瓷 (cí, “porcelain”).

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Japanese

Kanji

磁

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. magnet

Readings

• Go-on: じ (ji, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: し (shi)
• Kun: じしゃく (jishaku); やきもの (yakimono, 磁)

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Korean

Hanja

磁 • (ja) (hangeul 자, revised ja, McCune–Reischauer cha, Yale ca)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 磁 (từ)

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