緇

See also: 缁

緇	U+7DC7, 緇 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7DC7

← 緆
[U+7DC6]

CJK Unified Ideographs

緈 →
[U+7DC8]

緇	U+2F96E, 緇 CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-2F96E

← 䌁
[U+2F96D]

CJK Compatibility Ideographs Supplement

縂 →
[U+2F96F]

Translingual

Han character

緇 (Kangxi radical 120, 糸+8, 14 strokes, cangjie input 女火女女田 (VFVVW), four-corner 2296₃, composition ⿰糹甾)

Derived characters

𫊄

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 929, character 5
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27600
Dae Jaweon: page 1366, character 14
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3422, character 3
Unihan data for U+7DC7

Unihan data for U+2F96E

Chinese

trad.		緇
simp.		缁

Glyph origin

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

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

	Old Chinese
輜	ʔsrɯ, sʰrɯ
淄	*ʔsrɯ
錙	*ʔsrɯ
緇	*ʔsrɯ
甾	*ʔsrɯ
菑	ʔsrɯ, ʔsɯː, *ʔsɯː
鶅	ʔsrɯ, ʔsrɯs
椔	ʔsrɯ, ʔsrɯs
鯔	*ʔsrɯ

Etymology

緇 (OC *tsrə) "black < color of burnt soil?", possibly same word as 菑 (OC *tsrə) "field cleared by slash and burn" (Schuessler, 2007). See there for etymology.

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): zī (zi¹)

(Zhuyin): ㄗ
Cantonese (Jyutping): zi¹

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/

Middle Chinese: tsri

Rime
Character	緇
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	莊 (18)
Final (韻)	之 (19)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	側持切
Baxter	tsri
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡ʃɨ/
Pan Wuyun	/ʈ͡ʂɨ/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡ʃie/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʈ͡ʂɨ/
Li Rong	/t͡ʃiə/
Wang Li	/t͡ʃĭə/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ʈ͡ʂi/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zhī
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zi¹

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

(Zhengzhang): /*ʔsrɯ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	緇
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	zī
Middle Chinese	‹ tsri ›
Old Chinese	/*[ts]rə/
English	black
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	緇
Reading #	1/1
No.	17823
Phonetic component	甾
Rime group	之
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	葘
Old Chinese	/*ʔsrɯ/

Definitions

緇

(literary) to blacken
- 不曰白乎，涅而不緇。 [Traditional Chinese poetry, trad.]
  不曰白乎，涅而不缁。 [Traditional Chinese poetry, simp.]
  From: The Analects of Confucius, c. 475 – 221 BCE
  Bù yuē bái hū, niè ér bù zī. [Pinyin]
  Is it not said, that, if a thing be really white, it may be steeped in a dark fluid without being made black?
(literary) black
- 緇衣之宜兮 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad.]
  缁衣之宜兮 [Pre-Classical Chinese, simp.]
  From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11^th – 7^th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version
  zī yī zhī yí xī [Pinyin]
  How well do the black robes befit you!

Compounds

削髮披緇 / 削发披缁
剪髮披緇 / 剪发披缁
披緇 / 披缁
涅而不緇 / 涅而不缁 (niè'érbùzī)
素衣化緇 / 素衣化缁
緇塵 / 缁尘
緇服 / 缁服
緇流 / 缁流
緇衣 / 缁衣
緇門 / 缁门
緇黃 / 缁黄

Japanese

Kanji

緇

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

On (unclassified): し (shi)
Kun: くろ (kuro)

Korean

Hanja

緇 • (chi) (hangeul 치, revised chi, McCune–Reischauer ch'i, Yale chi)

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