梓

梓 (Kangxi radical 75, 木+7, 11 strokes, cangjie input 木卜廿十 (DYTJ) or 難木卜廿十 (XDYTJ), four-corner 4094₁, composition ⿰木辛)

• 𣘲

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 528, character 25
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14845
• Dae Jaweon: page 917, character 13
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1219, character 3
• Unihan data for U+6893

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ʔsɯʔ): semantic 木 (“wood; tree”) + abbreviated phonetic 宰 (OC *ʔsɯːʔ)

梓

1. yellow catalpa or Chinese catalpa (Catalpa ovata)

   Coordinate term: 楸 (qiū)

2. craftsman who produces wooden items

   梓匠  ―  zǐjiàng  ―  woodworker

3. hometown
4. printing block

   付梓  ―  fùzǐ  ―  to send a manuscript to the press

5. a surname

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A01935

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

• Go-on: し (shi)
• Kan-on: し (shi)
• Kun: あずさ (azusa, 梓)^{←あづさ (adusa, 梓, historical)}

/adusa/ → /ad͡zusa/ → /azusa/

From Old Japanese.

• (Tokyo) あずさ [áꜜzùsà] (Atamadaka – [1])^[1]
• (Tokyo) あずさ [àzúsá] (Heiban – [0])^[1]
• IPA^(key): [a̠zɨsa̠]

梓(あずさ) or 梓(アズサ) • (azusa) ^{←あづさ (adusa) or アヅサ (adusa)?}

1. synonym of 夜糞峰榛 (yoguso minebari): the Japanese cherry birch, Betula grossa
2. synonym of 木豇豆, 楸 (kisasage): the yellow or Chinese catalpa, Catalpa ovata
3. synonym of 赤芽柏 (akame-gashiwa): the Japanese mallotus, Mallotus japonicus
4. a block used for printing (as it was originally made from the wood of the Chinese catalpa)

   Synonym: 版木 (hangi)

5. short for 梓弓 (azusa yumi): a bow made from the wood of the Japanese cherry birch; a small musical bow used to summon spirits
6. short for 梓巫女 (azusa miko): a 巫女 (miko, “unmarried female medium”) who summons spirits by sounding the string of an azusa yumi (short musical bow)
7. (theater) in noh, the swift, drummed accompaniment to the entrance recitative of a medium

• 梓(あずさ)に刻(きざ)む (azusa ni kizamu)
• 梓(あずさ)に鏤(ちりば)める (azusa ni chiribameru)
• 梓(あずさ)に上(のぼ)す (azusa ni nobosu)

• 腰(こし)に梓(あずさ)の弓(ゆみ)を張(は)る (koshi ni azusa no yumi o haru)

梓(あずさ) • (Azusa) ^{←あづさ (Adusa)?}

1. a female given name
2. a surname

/si/ → /ɕi/

From Middle Chinese 梓 (MC tsiX).

• (Tokyo) し [shíꜜ] (Atamadaka – [1])^[1]
• IPA^(key): [ɕi]

梓(し) • (shi) 

1. a block used for printing (as it was originally made from the wood of the Chinese catalpa)

   Synonym: 版木 (hangi)

• 梓氏(しし) (shishi)

• 梓(し)に上(のぼ)す (shi ni nobosu)

梓(し) • (shi) 

1. catalpa
2. printing block
3. printing

梓 • (jae) (hangeul 재, revised jae, McCune–Reischauer chae, Yale cay)

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梓 (adusa) (kana あづさ)

1. the Japanese cherry birch, Betula grossa
   • c. 759, Man’yōshū, book 14, poem 3567:
     , text here

     於伎弖伊可婆伊毛婆麻可奈之母知弖由久安都佐能由美乃由都可爾母我毛

     oki₁te ikaba imo ba ma-kanasi motite yuku adusa no₂ yumi₁ no₂ yuduka ni mo ga mo

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2. short for 梓弓 (adusa yumi₁): a bow made from the wood of the Japanese cherry birch

• 梓弓 (adusa yumi₁)
• 玉梓, 玉章 (tamadusa)
• 根張り梓 (nepari adusa)

• Japanese: 梓 (azusa)

梓: Hán Nôm readings: tử

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