祗

祗 U+7957, 祗 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7957 ← 祖 [U+7956] CJK Unified Ideographs 祘 → [U+7958]

See also: 祇 and 只

Translingual

Han character

祗 (radical 113 示+5, 10 strokes, cangjie input 戈火竹心一 (IFHPM) or 戈火竹女戈 (IFHVI), four-corner 3224₀, composition ⿰礻氐)

1. respect, look up to, revere

Usage notes

Not to be confused with 祇, which looks similar but has a different meaning.

References

• KangXi: page 841, character 20
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 24665
• Dae Jaweon: page 1260, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2394, character 3
• Unihan data for U+7957

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		祗

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (氐) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
低	*tiːl
氐	*tiːl, *til
袛	*tiːl
羝	*tiːl
眡	*tiːl, *djilʔ
岻	*tiːl, *dil
奃	*tiːl
趆	*tiːl, *tiːls
柢	*tiːl, *tiːlʔ, *tiːls
邸	*tiːlʔ
底	*tiːlʔ
詆	*tiːlʔ, *diːl
坻	*tiːlʔ, *tjelʔ, *dil
抵	*tiːlʔ
牴	*tiːlʔ
觝	*tiːlʔ
弤	*tiːlʔ
軧	*tiːlʔ
骶	*tiːls
砥	*tjelʔ, *tjil, *tjilʔ, *tjils
胝	*til
疷	*til
秪	*til
泜	*dil
蚳	*dil
彽	*dil
阺	*dil
貾	*dil
祗	*tjil
厎	*tjilʔ, *tjɯʔ
茋	*tjilʔ
鴟	*tʰjil
汦	*kjeʔ, *tjil

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zhī (zhi¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄓ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zi¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: zhī
    • Zhuyin: ㄓ
    • Wade-Giles: chih¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jy
    • IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʐ̩⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: zi¹
    • Yale: jī
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzi¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: ji¹
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡siː⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: /t͡ɕiɪ/▼

Rime
Character	祗
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	章 (23)
Final (韻)	脂 (15)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	旨夷切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡ɕiɪ/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡ɕi/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡ɕjɪ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ci/
Li Rong	/t͡ɕi/
Wang Li	/t͡ɕi/
Bernard Karlgren	/t͡ɕi/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zhī

• Old Chinese▼

  (Zhengzhang): /*tjil/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	祗
Reading #	1/1
No.	2270
Phonetic component	氐
Rime group	脂
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	脂
Old Chinese	/*tjil/

Definitions

祗

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Japanese

Kanji

祗

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On: し (shi)
• Kun: つつしむ (tsutsushimu), まさに (masani)

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Korean

Hanja

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

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