孳

See also: 孶

孳	U+5B73, 孳 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5B73

← 孲
[U+5B72]

CJK Unified Ideographs

孴 →
[U+5B74]

Translingual

Han character

孳 (Kangxi radical 39, 子+10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 廿女戈木 (TVID) or 難廿女戈木 (XTVID), four-corner 4440₇, composition ⿱兹子)

breed in large numbers

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 280, character 17
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7011
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1017, character 9
Unihan data for U+5B73

Bailang

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan. Compare Tibetan མཛའ (mdza'), Old Chinese 慈 (OC *zɯ).

Adjective

孳 (*dziəh)

loving

References

Hill, Nathan W. (2017) “Songs of the Bailang: A New Transcription with Etymological Commentary”, in Bulletin de l'École française d'Extrême-Orient‎^[1], volume 103, pages 386—429

Chinese

simp. and trad.		孳
alternative forms		孶𢇖

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 孳
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

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

	Old Chinese
糍	*zi
茲	ʔsɯ, zɯ
滋	*ʔsɯ
孳	ʔsɯ, zɯs
嵫	*ʔsɯ
嗞	*ʔsɯ
鎡	*ʔsɯ
鰦	*ʔsɯ
鶿	ʔsɯ, zɯ
稵	ʔsɯ, ʔsɯw
螆	*sʰɯs
慈	*zɯ
鷀	*zɯ
磁	*zɯ
礠	*zlɯ
濨	*zlɯ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ʔsɯ, *zɯs): phonetic 兹 (OC *ʔsɯ, *zɯ) + semantic 子 (“child”).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): zī (zi¹)

(Zhuyin): ㄗ
Cantonese (Jyutping): zi¹
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): chu

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)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chu
  - Tâi-lô: tsu
  - Phofsit Daibuun: zw
  - IPA (Xiamen): /t͡su⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡su³³/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡su⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Taipei): /t͡su⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡su⁴⁴/

Middle Chinese: tsi, dziH

Rime
Character	孳	孳
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	精 (13)	從 (15)
Final (韻)	之 (19)	之 (19)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	子之切	疾置切
Baxter	tsi	dziH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡sɨ/	/d͡zɨ^H/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡sɨ/	/d͡zɨ^H/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡sie/	/d͡zie^H/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/t͡sɨ/	/d͡zɨ^H/
Li Rong	/t͡siə/	/d͡ziə^H/
Wang Li	/t͡sĭə/	/d͡zĭə^H/
Bernhard Karlgren	/t͡si/	/d͡zʱi^H/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zī	zì
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zi¹	zi⁶

Old Chinese
(Zhengzhang): /*ʔsɯ/, /*zɯs/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	孳	孳
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	17837	17852
Phonetic component	兹	兹
Rime group	之	之
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	兹	字
Old Chinese	/*ʔsɯ/	/*zɯs/

Definitions

孳

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Compounds

孳乳 (zīrǔ)
孳孳 (zīzī)
孳孳不倦
孳尾
孳息 (zīxī)
孳生 (zīshēng)
孳育
孳茂
孳萌
孳蔓
孳衍

Japanese

Kanji

孳

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

On (unclassified): し (shi)、じ (ji)
Kun: うむ (umu)、しげる (shigeru)

Compounds

孳尾(つる)む (tsurumu)

Korean

Hanja

孳 • (ja) (hangeul 자, revised ja, McCune–Reischauer cha)

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Vietnamese

Han character

孳: Hán Nôm readings: tư

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