錙

See also: 锱

Translingual

Han character

錙 (Kangxi radical 167, 金+8, 16 strokes, cangjie input 金女女田 (CVVW), four-corner 8216₀, composition ⿰釒甾)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1310, character 12
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 40548
• Dae Jaweon: page 1812, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4227, character 11
• Unihan data for U+9319

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Chinese

trad.		錙
simp.		锱

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
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): chir / chu

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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/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chir
    • Tâi-lô: tsir
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sɯ³³/
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chu
    • Tâi-lô: tsu
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zw
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung, Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /t͡su⁴⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: tsri

Rime
Character	錙
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

  (Zhengzhang): /*ʔsrɯ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	錙
Reading #	1/1
No.	17822
Phonetic component	甾
Rime group	之
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	葘
Old Chinese	/*ʔsrɯ/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 錙

1. (Classical) A unit of weight, with variant written accounts; it is six 銖／铢 according to Shuo Wen

Compounds

(deprecated template usage)

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Japanese

Kanji

錙

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): し (shi)
• Kun: わずか (wazuka), さかん (sakan)

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Korean

Hanja

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

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