軹

See also: 轵

軹 U+8EF9, 軹 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8EF9 ← 軸 [U+8EF8] CJK Unified Ideographs 軺 → [U+8EFA]

Translingual

Han character

軹 (Kangxi radical 159, 車+5, 12 strokes, cangjie input 十十口金 (JJRC), four-corner 5608₀, composition ⿰車只)

1. the end of an axle
2. divergent

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1242, character 15
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 38271
• Dae Jaweon: page 1718, character 6
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3521, character 3
• Unihan data for U+8EF9

Chinese

trad.		軹
simp.		轵

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
只	*klje, *kljeʔ
胑	*klje
疻	*klje, *klji
軹	*kljeʔ
咫	*kljeʔ
枳	*kljeʔ, *kleʔ
抧	*kljeʔ
伿	*kljes, *les
齞	*ŋleːnʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *kljeʔ) : semantic 車 (“cart”) + phonetic 只 (OC *klje, *kljeʔ).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zhǐ (zhi³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄓˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zi²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zhǐ
    • Zhuyin: ㄓˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jhǐh
    • Wade–Giles: chih³
    • Yale: jř
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jyy
    • Palladius: чжи (čži)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʐ̩²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: zi²
    • Yale: jí
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzi²
    • Guangdong Romanization: ji²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡siː³⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: tsyeX

Rime
Character	軹
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
Baxter	tsyeX
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
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zi2

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*kljeʔ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	軹
Reading #	1/1
No.	17308
Phonetic component	只
Rime group	支
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	紙
Old Chinese	/*kljeʔ/

Definitions

軹

1. (literary) end of an axle

Compounds

• 軹城／轵城 (Zhǐchéng, “Zhicheng”)
• 軹道／轵道 (Zhǐ Dào)
• 軹首蛇／轵首蛇

 

Japanese

Kanji

軹

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): し (shi); き (ki); しん (shin)
• Kun: あな (ana); じくがしら (jikugashira)

Korean

Hanja

軹 • (ji) (hangeul 지, revised ji, McCune–Reischauer chi, Yale ci)

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Vietnamese

Han character

軹: Hán Việt readings: chỉ

1. chữ Hán form of chỉ (“axle end”).