緇

See also: 缁

緇 U+2F96E, 緇 CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-2F96E ← 䌁 [U+2F96D] CJK Compatibility Ideographs Supplement 縂 → [U+2F96F]

Translingual

Han character

緇 (Kangxi radical 120, 糸+8, 14 strokes, cangjie input 女火女女田 (VFVVW), four-corner 2296₃, composition ⿰糹甾)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 929, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27600
• Dae Jaweon: page 1366, character 14
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3422, character 3
• Unihan data for U+7DC7

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Chinese

trad.		緇
simp.		缁

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
輜	*ʔsrɯ, *sʰrɯ
淄	*ʔsrɯ
錙	*ʔsrɯ
緇	*ʔsrɯ
甾	*ʔsrɯ
菑	*ʔsrɯ, *ʔsɯː, *ʔsɯː
鶅	*ʔsrɯ, *ʔsrɯs
椔	*ʔsrɯ, *ʔsrɯs
鯔	*ʔsrɯ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zī (zi¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄗ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zi¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zī
    • Zhuyin: ㄗ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: zih
    • Wade–Giles: tzŭ¹
    • Yale: dz̄
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tzy
    • Palladius: цзы (czy)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sz̩⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: zi¹
    • Yale: jī
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzi¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: ji¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡siː⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: tsri

Rime
Character	緇
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	莊 (18)
Final (韻)	之 (19)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	側持切
Baxter	tsri
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡ʃɨ/
Pan Wuyun	/ʈ͡ʂɨ/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡ʃie/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʈ͡ʂɨ/
Li Rong	/t͡ʃiə/
Wang Li	/t͡ʃĭə/
Bernard Karlgren	/ʈ͡ʂi/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zhī
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zi1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[ts]rə/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ʔsrɯ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	緇
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	zī
Middle Chinese	‹ tsri ›
Old Chinese	/*[ts]rə/
English	black
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	緇
Reading #	1/1
No.	17823
Phonetic component	甾
Rime group	之
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	葘
Old Chinese	/*ʔsrɯ/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 緇

1. black silk

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Japanese

Kanji

緇

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): し (shi)
• Kun: くろ (kuro)

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Korean

Hanja

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

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