稚

See also: 穉 and 推

Translingual

Han character

稚 (Kangxi radical 115, 禾+8, 13 strokes, cangjie input 竹木人土 (HDOG), four-corner 2091₄, composition ⿰禾隹)

1. young, immature
2. childhood

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 855, character 9
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 25120
• Dae Jaweon: page 1280, character 14
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2613, character 10
• Unihan data for U+7A1A

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		稚

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *l'ils) : semantic 禾 (“rice”) + phonetic 屖 (OC *sliːl).

During the Han Dynasty, the 屖 component was commonly substituted with 隹 (zhuī).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zhì (zhi⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄓˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zi⁶
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): chhṳ̀ / chṳ̂
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): tī

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zhì
    • Zhuyin: ㄓˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jhìh
    • Wade–Giles: chih⁴
    • Yale: jr̀
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jyh
    • Palladius: чжи (čži)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʐ̩⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: zi⁶
    • Yale: jih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzi⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: ji⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡siː²²/
• Hakka
  • (Northern Sixian, incl. Miaoli)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chhṳ̀ / chṳ̂
    • Hakka Romanization System: ciiˇ / zii´
    • Hagfa Pinyim: ci² / zi¹
    • Sinological IPA: /t͡sʰɨ¹¹/, /t͡sɨ²⁴/
  • (Southern Sixian, incl. Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chṳ̂
    • Hakka Romanization System: zii´
    • Hagfa Pinyim: zi¹
    • Sinological IPA: /t͡sɨ²⁴/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tī
    • Tâi-lô: tī
    • Phofsit Daibuun: di
    • IPA (Xiamen): /ti²²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /ti⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /ti²²/
    • IPA (Taipei): /ti³³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /ti³³/

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• Middle Chinese: drijH

Rime
Character	稚
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	澄 (11)
Final (韻)	脂 (17)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	直利切
Baxter	drijH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɖˠiɪH/
Pan Wuyun	/ɖᵚiH/
Shao Rongfen	/ȡiɪH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɖjiH/
Li Rong	/ȡjiH/
Wang Li	/ȡiH/
Bernard Karlgren	/ȡʱiH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zhì
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zi6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*lrəj-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*l'ils/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	稚
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	zhì
Middle Chinese	‹ drijH ›
Old Chinese	/*lrəj-s/
English	young
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	稚
Reading #	1/1
No.	17388
Phonetic component	稚
Rime group	脂
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	緻
Old Chinese	/*l'ils/
Notes	說文作稺，此疑雉省聲

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 稚

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Japanese

Kanji

稚

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: じ (ji)
• Kan-on: ち (chi, Jōyō)
• Kun: おさない (osanai); わかい (wakai, 稚い); いとけない (itokenai, 稚い)

Compounds

Compounds

• 稚鮎(ちあゆ) (chiayu)
• 稚気(ちき) (chiki)
• 稚魚(ちぎょ) (chigyo)
• 稚児(ちご) (chigo)
• 稚子(ちし) (chishi)
• 稚拙(ちせつ) (chisetsu)

• 稚嫩(ちどん) (chidon): youth and tenderness
• 丁稚(でっち) (detchi)
• 丁稚奉公(でっちぼうこう) (detchibōkō)
• 幼稚(ようち) (yōchi): infantility
• 幼稚園(ようちえん) (yōchien): kindergarten
• 稚鰤(わかさ) (wakasa)

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Korean

Hanja

稚 • (chi) (hangeul 치, revised chi, McCune–Reischauer ch'i, Yale chi)

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