紙

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紙 U+7D19, 紙
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7D19
← 紘
[U+7D18]		 CJK Unified Ideographs 級 →
[U+7D1A]
See also: 纸 and 帋

Translingual[edit]

Han character[edit]

紙 (radical 120 糸+4, 10 strokes, cangjie input 女火竹女心 (VFHVP), four-corner 22940, composition ⿰糸氏)

References[edit]

  • KangXi: page 918, character 4
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27293
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1347, character 13
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3375, character 12
  • Unihan data for U+7D19

Chinese[edit]

trad. 紙
simp. 纸

Glyph origin[edit]

Historical forms of the character 紙
Large seal script Small seal script
紙-bigseal.svg 紙-seal.svg
Characters in the same phonetic series (氏) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
氏 *skeŋ, *kje, *ɡjeʔ
衹 *kje, *ɡe
紙 *kjeʔ
帋 *kjeʔ
扺 *kjeʔ
坁 *kjeʔ
汦 *kjeʔ, *tjil
忯 *ɡje, *ɡe
眂 *ɡje, *ɡils
舐 *ɦljeʔ
芪 *ɡe
祇 *ɡe
疧 *ɡe
軝 *ɡe
蚔 *ɡe

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *kjeʔ): semantic 糸 (“silk”) + phonetic 氏 (OC *skeŋ, *kje, *ɡjeʔ).

Etymology[edit]

Unknown. It has been connected to Vietnamese giấy (< Proto-Vietic *k-cajʔ).

Pronunciation[edit]

Note:
  • chóa - vernacular;
  • chí - literary.
Rime
Character 紙
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 章 (23)
Final (韻) 支 (11)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 諸氏切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /t͡ɕiᴇX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /t͡ɕiɛX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /t͡ɕjɛX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ciə̆X/
Li
Rong		 /t͡ɕieX/
Wang
Li		 /t͡ɕǐeX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /t͡ɕie̯X/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 zhǐ
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 紙
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 zhǐ
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ tsyeX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*k.teʔ/
English paper

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 紙
Reading # 1/1
No. 11516
Phonetic
component		 氏
Rime
group		 支
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 紙
Old
Chinese		 /*kjeʔ/

Definitions[edit]

紙

  1. paper (Classifier: 張／张)
  2. Classifier for document and letters.
  3. Short for 紙錢／纸钱 (zhǐqián, “paper made to resemble money and burnt as an offering to the dead”).
  4. (Mandarin, neologism, slang) Eye dialect spelling of 子.

Compounds[edit]

Derived terms from 紙

Descendants[edit]

Sino-Xenic (紙):
  • Japanese: 紙 (し) (shi)
  • Korean: 지 (紙, ji)
  • Vietnamese: chỉ (紙)

Japanese[edit]

Kanji[edit]

紙

(grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. paper

Alternative forms[edit]

帋 (俗字, zokuji)

Readings[edit]

Compounds[edit]

References[edit]

  • New Nelson: 4455
  • Halpern: 1302
  • Halpern Learners: 879
  • Heisig: 1829
  • Tuttle Kanji Dictionary: 6a4.4
  1. Source: EDICT and KANJIDIC files licensed by the Electronic Dictionaries Research Group.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

紙 (hiragana かみ, rōmaji kami)

  1. paper

Derived terms[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, ISBN 978-4-14-011112-3

Korean[edit]

Hanja[edit]

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

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Vietnamese[edit]

Han character[edit]

紙 (chỉ, giấy)

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