辭

See also: 辞, 辝, and 辤

Translingual

Japanese	辞
Simplified	辞
Traditional	辭

Han character

辭 (Kangxi radical 160, 辛+12, 19 strokes, cangjie input 月月卜廿十 (BBYTJ), four-corner 2024₁, composition ⿰𤔔辛)

Derived characters

• 𫍗, 𮓑

Descendants

• 辞 (in simplified Chinese and Japanese shinjitai)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1252, character 8
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 38671
• Dae Jaweon: page 1732, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4043, character 13
• Unihan data for U+8FAD

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Chinese

trad.		辭
simp.		辞
alternative forms		𤔲 辝 辤 辞

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 辭
Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

	Old Chinese
辤	*ljɯ
辭	*ljɯ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Standard)

  (Pinyin): cí (ci²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄘˊ

  (Dungan, Cyrillic and Wiktionary): цы (cɨ, I)

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ci⁴
• Northern Min (KCR): cǔ
• Eastern Min (BUC): sṳ̀
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): sîr / sû / sî

  (Teochew, Peng'im): si⁵ / se⁵

• Wu (Wugniu)
  • (Northern): ⁶zy

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: cí
    • Zhuyin: ㄘˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: cíh
    • Wade–Giles: tzʻŭ²
    • Yale: tsź
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tsyr
    • Palladius: цы (cy)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰz̩³⁵/
  • (Dungan)
    • Cyrillic and Wiktionary: цы (cɨ, I)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰz̩²⁴/

    (Note: Dungan pronunciation is currently experimental and may be inaccurate.)

• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: ci⁴
    • Yale: chìh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsi⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: qi⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰiː²¹/
• Northern Min
  • (Jian'ou)
    • Kienning Colloquial Romanized: cǔ
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡su²¹/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: sṳ̀
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sy⁵³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sîr
    • Tâi-lô: sîr
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /sɯ²⁴/
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sû
    • Tâi-lô: sû
    • Phofsit Daibuun: suu
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /su²³/
    • IPA (Taipei, Xiamen): /su²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /su¹³/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sî
    • Tâi-lô: sî
    • Phofsit Daibuun: sii
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /si¹³/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Quanzhou, Taipei): /si²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /si²³/

Note:

• sîr/sû - literary;
• sî - vernacular.

• (Teochew)
  • Peng'im: si⁵ / se⁵
  • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: sî / sṳ̂
  • Sinological IPA ^(key): /si⁵⁵/, /sɯ⁵⁵/

Note: se5 - diction, phraseology (in 修辭, 講辭).

• Wu
  • (Shanghai):
    • Wugniu: ⁶zy
    • MiniDict: zy^去
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ³zr
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /zz̩²³/

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• Dialectal data

Variety	Location	edit 辭
Mandarin	Beijing	/t͡sʰz̩³⁵/
	Harbin	/t͡sʰz̩²⁴/
	Tianjin	/t͡sʰz̩⁴⁵/
	Jinan	/t͡sʰz̩⁴²/
	Qingdao	/t͡sʰz̩⁴²/
	Zhengzhou	/t͡sʰz̩⁴²/
	Xi'an	/t͡sʰz̩²⁴/
	Xining	/t͡sʰz̩²⁴/
	Yinchuan	/t͡sʰz̩⁵³/
	Lanzhou	/t͡sʰz̩⁵³/
	Ürümqi	/t͡sʰz̩⁵¹/
	Wuhan	/t͡sʰz̩²¹³/
	Chengdu	/t͡sʰz̩³¹/
	Guiyang	/t͡sʰz̩²¹/
	Kunming	/t͡sʰz̩²¹²/
	Nanjing	/t͡sʰz̩²⁴/
	Hefei	/t͡sʰz̩⁵⁵/
Jin	Taiyuan	/sz̩¹¹/
	Pingyao	/t͡sʰz̩¹³/ /sz̩¹³/
	Hohhot	/t͡sʰz̩³¹/
Wu	Shanghai	/zz̩²³/
	Suzhou	/zz̩¹³/
	Hangzhou	/d͡zz̩²¹³/
	Wenzhou	/zz̩³¹/
Hui	Shexian	/t͡sʰz̩⁴⁴/
	Tunxi	/t͡sʰz̩⁴⁴/
Xiang	Changsha	/t͡sz̩¹³/
	Xiangtan	/d͡zz̩¹²/
Gan	Nanchang	/t͡sʰz̩²⁴/
Hakka	Meixian	/t͡sʰz̩¹¹/
	Taoyuan	/t͡sʰï¹¹/
Cantonese	Guangzhou	/t͡sʰi²¹/
	Nanning	/t͡sʰz̩²¹/
	Hong Kong	/t͡sʰi²¹/
Min	Xiamen (Hokkien)	/su³⁵/ /si³⁵/
	Fuzhou (Eastern Min)	/sy⁵³/
	Jian'ou (Northern Min)	/t͡su²¹/
	Shantou (Teochew)	/sɯ⁵⁵/ /si⁵⁵/
	Haikou (Hainanese)	/ti³¹/ ～別 /si³¹/ ～典

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• Middle Chinese: zi

Rime
Character	辭
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	邪 (17)
Final (韻)	之 (19)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	似兹切
Baxter	zi
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/zɨ/
Pan Wuyun	/zɨ/
Shao Rongfen	/zie/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/zɨ/
Li Rong	/ziə/
Wang Li	/zĭə/
Bernard Karlgren	/zi/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	sí
Expected Cantonese Reflex	ci4

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*sə.lə/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ljɯ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	辭
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	cí
Middle Chinese	‹ zi ›
Old Chinese	/*sə.lə/
English	words
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	辭
Reading #	1/1
No.	1684
Phonetic component	辭
Rime group	之
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	詞
Old Chinese	/*ljɯ/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 辭

1. diction; phraseology
2. Ci (a form of classical poetry)
4. to depart; to take one's leave
5. to dismiss; to discharge; to fire
6. to resign; to hand in
7. to shirk

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Japanese

Shinjitai	辞
Kyūjitai	辭

Kanji

辭

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 辞)

1. words
2. speech
3. expression
4. phrase

Readings

• Go-on: じ (ji)
• Kan-on: し (shi)
• Kun: やめる (yameru, 辭める)

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Korean

Hanja

辭 (eumhun 말씀 사 (malsseum sa))

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 辭 (từ)

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