紙

See also: 纸 and 帋

Translingual

shinjitai	紙
simplified	纸
traditional	紙

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形声) with 糸 (“silk”) providing the meaning and 氏 (“clan”) providing the pronunciation.

Han character

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

1. paper

References

• 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
• 1998, Rick Harbaugh, Chinese Characters: A Genealogy and Dictionary^[1] (in English, Mandarin), Yale University Press, retrieved on 2010-03-23:

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Cantonese

Hanzi

紙 (simplified 纸, Jyutping zi2, Yale ji2)

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Japanese

Kanji

紙

(grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. paper

Alternative forms

帋 (俗字, zokuji)

Readings

• Goon: し (shi)
• Kan’on: し (shi)
• Kun: かみ (kami)

Compounds

• 紙幣 (しへい, shihei, “paper money, bill, note”)
• 切り紙 (きりがみ, kirigami)
• 手紙 (てがみ, tegami, “letter”)
• 折紙 (おりがみ, origami)

References

JIS: 3B66 Kuten: 2770 Shift JIS: 8e86 EUC-JP: BBE6 Frequency: 559 Nelson: 3510

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.

Noun

紙 (hiragana かみ, romaji kami)

1. paper

Derived terms

• 紙パック (かみパック, kamipakku)

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Mandarin

Hanzi

紙 (simplified 纸, Pinyin zhǐ (zhi3), Wade-Giles chih³)

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Middle Chinese

Han character

紙 (jiɛ̌)

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Vietnamese

Han character

紙 (chỉ, giấy)