秭

秭	U+79ED, 秭 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-79ED

← 秬
[U+79EC]

CJK Unified Ideographs

秮 →
[U+79EE]

Translingual

Han character

秭 (Kangxi radical 115, 禾+5, 10 strokes, cangjie input 竹木中難竹 (HDLXH), four-corner 2592₇, composition ⿰禾𠂔)

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 852, character 5
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 25003
Dae Jaweon: page 1276, character 8
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2594, character 14
Unihan data for U+79ED

Chinese

simp. and trad.		秭

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 秭
Shang	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Oracle bone script	Small seal script

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

	Old Chinese
姊	*ʔsiʔ
秭	*ʔsiʔ
趀	*sʰi
笫	ʔsriʔ, ʔsrɯʔ
胏	*ʔsrɯʔ
柹	*zrɯʔ
柿	*zrɯʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ʔsiʔ): semantic 禾 (“rice”) + phonetic 𠂔.

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): zǐ (zi³)

(Zhuyin): ㄗˇ
Cantonese (Jyutping): zi²

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: zǐ
  - Zhuyin: ㄗˇ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: zǐh
  - Wade–Giles: tzŭ³
  - Yale: dž
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tzyy
  - Palladius: цзы (czy)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sz̩²¹⁴/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: zi²
  - Yale: jí
  - Cantonese Pinyin: dzi²
  - Guangdong Romanization: ji²
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡siː³⁵/

Middle Chinese: tsijX

Rime
Character	秭
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	精 (13)
Final (韻)	脂 (15)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	將几切
Baxter	tsijX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡siɪ^X/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡si^X/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡sjɪ^X/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/t͡si^X/
Li Rong	/t͡si^X/
Wang Li	/t͡si^X/
Bernhard Karlgren	/t͡si^X/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zǐ
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zi²

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*[ts][i]jʔ/

(Zhengzhang): /*ʔsiʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	秭
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	zǐ
Middle Chinese	‹ tsij^X ›
Old Chinese	/*[ts][i]jʔ/
English	a high number
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	秭
Reading #	1/1
No.	17871
Phonetic component
Rime group	脂
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	𡛷
Old Chinese	/*ʔsiʔ/
Notes	依曶鼎金文右上爲屮來，下粗筆象封堆，即表禾積義，轉註加禾爲

Definitions

秭

a numeral that refers to various numbers, including 10⁹, 10¹² and 10²⁴

Compounds

秭歸 / 秭归 (Zǐguī, “Zigui”)
秭鳺 / 秭𱉎

Japanese

Kanji

秭

(Hyōgai kanji)

Readings

Go-on: し (shi)
Kan-on: し (shi)

Number

Kanji in this term
秭
し Hyōgai
on'yomi

秭(し) • (shi)

A trillion trillion, 10²⁴, or a septillion of modern English in modern Japanese since 17th century.
Synonym: 𥝱

Korean

Hanja

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

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Chinese numerals
10⁴	10⁸	10¹²	10¹⁶	10²⁰	10²⁴	10²⁸	10³²	10³⁶	10⁴⁰	10⁴⁴	10⁴⁸
萬／万 (wàn)	億／亿 (yì)	兆 (zhào) (Taiwan)	京 (jīng) (Taiwan)	垓 (gāi)	秭 (zǐ)	穰 (ráng)	溝／沟 (gōu)	澗／涧 (jiàn)	正 (zhèng)	載／载 (zài)	極／极 (jí)
萬／万 (wàn)	億／亿 (yì)	萬億／万亿 (wànyì) (Mainland China)	億億/亿亿 (Mainland China)	垓 (gāi)	秭 (zǐ)	穰 (ráng)	溝／沟 (gōu)	澗／涧 (jiàn)	正 (zhèng)	載／载 (zài)	極／极 (jí)