啙

啙 U+5559, 啙 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5559 ← 啘 [U+5558] CJK Unified Ideographs 啚 → [U+555A]

Translingual

Han character

啙 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 卜心口口 (YPRR), composition ⿱此吅)

1. flaw, fault, defect
2. bad, inferior, poor

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 196, character 7
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3828
• Dae Jaweon: page 417, character 7
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 652, character 14
• Unihan data for U+5559

Chinese

simp. and trad.		啙

Glyph origin

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

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

	Old Chinese
些	*saːls, *sjaːl, *seːs
跐	*ʔsreːʔ, *ʔseʔ, *sʰeʔ, *ʔsreʔ
柴	*zreː
祡	*zreː
茈	*zreː, *ʔseʔ, *ze
眦	*zreːs
砦	*zraːds
寨	*zraːds, *slɯːɡ
啙	*ʔseː, *zeːʔ, *ʔseʔ
泚	*sʰeːʔ, *sʰeʔ
玼	*sʰeːʔ, *sʰeʔ, *ze
皉	*sʰeːʔ
鮆	*zeːʔ, *ʔse
眥	*zeːs, *zes
貲	*ʔse
髭	*ʔse
頾	*ʔse
訾	*ʔse, *ʔseʔ
鴜	*ʔse, *ze
鈭	*ʔse, *sʰe
姕	*ʔse, *sʰe, *ze
觜	*ʔse, *ʔse, *ʔseʔ
紫	*ʔseʔ
訿	*ʔseʔ
呰	*ʔseʔ
嘴	*ʔseʔ
雌	*sʰe
此	*sʰeʔ
佌	*sʰeʔ, *seʔ
庛	*sʰes
疵	*ze
骴	*ze, *zes
胔	*ze, *zes
飺	*ze
齜	*ʔsre

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zǐ, cǐ (zi³, ci³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄗˇ, ㄘˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zi²

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• 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/
      
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: cǐ
    • Zhuyin: ㄘˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: cǐh
    • Wade–Giles: tzʻŭ³
    • Yale: tsž
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tsyy
    • Palladius: цы (cy)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰz̩²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: zi²
    • Yale: jí
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzi²
    • Guangdong Romanization: ji²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡siː³⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: tsej, tsjeX, dzejX

Rime
Character	啙	啙	啙
Reading #	1/3	2/3	3/3
Initial (聲)	精 (13)	精 (13)	從 (15)
Final (韻)	齊 (39)	支 (11)	齊 (39)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Rising (X)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open	Open
Division (等)	IV	III	IV
Fanqie	祖稽切	將此切	徂禮切
Baxter	tsej	tsjeX	dzejX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡sei/	/t͡siᴇX/	/d͡zeiX/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡sei/	/t͡siɛX/	/d͡zeiX/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡sɛi/	/t͡sjɛX/	/d͡zɛiX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/t͡sɛj/	/t͡siə̆X/	/d͡zɛjX/
Li Rong	/t͡sei/	/t͡sieX/	/d͡zeiX/
Wang Li	/t͡siei/	/t͡sǐeX/	/d͡zieiX/
Bernard Karlgren	/t͡siei/	/t͡sie̯X/	/d͡zʱieiX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	jī	zǐ	jì
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zai1	zi2	zai6

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*ʔseː/, /*zeːʔ/, /*ʔseʔ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	啙	啙	啙
Reading #	1/3	2/3	3/3
No.	1694	1699	1716
Phonetic component	此	此	此
Rime group	支	支	支
Rime subdivision	0	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	齎	薺	紫
Old Chinese	/*ʔseː/	/*zeːʔ/	/*ʔseʔ/

Definitions

啙

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References

• (Cantonese) Jyutping Database (粵拼資料庫)

Japanese

Kanji

啙

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): し (shi); せい (sei); ざい (zai); じ (ji); せき (seki); きょう (kyō)
• Kun: ゆがむ (yugamu); これ (kore); この (kono)

Korean

Hanja

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

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