孳乳

Chinese

		industrious; produce; bear	breast; milk
simp. and trad. (孳乳)		孳	乳

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): zīrǔ

(Zhuyin): ㄗㄖㄨˇ
Cantonese (Jyutping): zi¹ jyu⁵

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: zīrǔ
  - Zhuyin: ㄗㄖㄨˇ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: zihrǔ
  - Wade–Giles: tzŭ¹-ju³
  - Yale: dz̄-rǔ
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tzyruu
  - Palladius: цзыжу (czyžu)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sz̩⁵⁵ ʐu²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: zi¹ jyu⁵
  - Yale: jī yúh
  - Cantonese Pinyin: dzi¹ jy⁵
  - Guangdong Romanization: ji¹ yu⁵
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡siː⁵⁵ jyː¹³/

Verb

孳乳

(literary) to multiply; to propagate
- 文者，物象之本；字者，言孳乳而寖多也。 [Classical Chinese, trad. and simp.]
  From: 《說文解字》序
  Wén zhě, wùxiàng zhī běn; zì zhě, yán zīrǔ ér jìnduō yě. [Pinyin]
  Writing is the basis of expressing ideas; words are speech propagating and multiplying.

Derived terms

孳乳字 (zīrǔzì)