黹

黹 U+9EF9, 黹 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9EF9 ← 黸 [U+9EF8] CJK Unified Ideographs 黺 → [U+9EFA]

⿋ U+2FCB, ⿋ KANGXI RADICAL EMBROIDERY ← ⿊ [U+2FCA] Kangxi Radicals ⿌ → [U+2FCC]

黹 U+2FA17, 黹 CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-2FA17 ← 䵖 [U+2FA16] CJK Compatibility Ideographs Supplement 黾 → [U+2FA18]

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

黹 (Kangxi radical 204, 黹+0, 12 strokes, cangjie input 廿金火月 (TCFB), four-corner 3222₇, composition ⿱业㡀)

1. Kangxi radical #204, ⿋.
2. Shuowen Jiezi radical №286

Derived characters

• Appendix:Chinese radical/黹
• 𫱱, 𫹤, 𣚠, 𬋉, 𧝉, 𦅧, 𧸅, 𨬚, 𣀅, 𭸪

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: 黹部/黹部 on the Chinese Wikisource.

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1522, character 45
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 48248
• Dae Jaweon: page 2058, character 11
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4738, character 1
• Unihan data for U+9EF9

• Unihan data for U+2FA17

Chinese

trad.		黹
simp. #		黹
alternative forms		絺／𫄨 𮮠

Glyph origin

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

Pictogram (象形). It could represent a decoration similar to a cloud used on bronzes and dresses. Similar but unrelated to 敝.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zhǐ (zhi³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄓˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zi²
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): chṳ́
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): zi³
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): chí

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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/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chṳ́
    • Hakka Romanization System: zii^ˋ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: zi³
    • Sinological IPA: /t͡sɨ³¹/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: zi³
    • Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: cî
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡si⁴⁵³/
  • (Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: zi³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡si³³²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chí
    • Tâi-lô: tsí
    • Phofsit Daibuun: cie
    • Sinological IPA (Xiamen): /t͡si⁵³/
    • Sinological IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡si⁵⁵⁴/
    • Sinological IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡si⁵³/
    • Sinological IPA (Taipei): /t͡si⁵³/
    • Sinological IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡si⁴¹/

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• Middle Chinese: trijX

Rime
Character	黹
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	知 (9)
Final (韻)	脂 (17)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	豬几切
Baxter	trijX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʈˠiɪX/
Pan Wuyun	/ʈᵚiX/
Shao Rongfen	/ȶiɪX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʈjiX/
Li Rong	/ȶjiX/
Wang Li	/ȶiX/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ȶiX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zhǐ
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zi2

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*tr[i]jʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*tiʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	黹
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	zhǐ
Middle Chinese	‹ trijX ›
Old Chinese	/*tr[i]jʔ/
English	embroidery
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	黹
Reading #	1/1
No.	17335
Phonetic component	黹
Rime group	脂
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	黹
Old Chinese	/*tiʔ/

Definitions

黹

1. to embroider; to do needlework
2. embroidery

Compounds

• 針黹 / 针黹 (zhēnzhǐ)

References

• (Hokkien) Taiwan Min Nan Common Words Dictionary (臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典)
• (Puxian Min) 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “黹”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 309.

Japanese

Kanji

黹

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. embroidery, needlework

Readings

• Go-on: ち (chi)
• Kan-on: ち (chi)
• Kun: ぬう (nū)、ぬい (nui)

Vietnamese

Han character

黹: Hán Nôm readings: chỉ

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