紫

Translingual

Han character

紫 (radical 120 糸+5, 11 strokes, cangjie input 卜心女戈火 (YPVIF), four-corner 2190₃, composition ⿱此糸)

1. purple, violet
2. amethyst
3. used as a surname

References

• KangXi: page 919, character 29
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27337
• Dae Jaweon: page 1350, character 12
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3392, character 12
• Unihan data for U+7D2B

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Cantonese

Hanzi

紫 (jyutping zi2, Yale ji2)

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Japanese

Noun

紫 (hiragana むらさき, romaji murasaki)

1. purple; violet
2. a gromwell
3. soy (sauce)

Kanji

紫 (common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• On: し (shi)
• Kun: むらさき (murasaki), ゆかり (yukari)

Compounds

• 紫陽花
• 紫雲
• 紫雲英
• 紫煙
• 紫苑
• 紫外線 (しがいせん, shigaisen, “ultraviolet rays”)
• 紫根
• 紫紺
• 紫蘇
• 紫檀
• 紫竹
• 紫電

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Korean

Hanja

紫 (hangeul 자, revised ja, McCune-Reischauer cha, Yale ca)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

紫 (pinyin zǐ (zi3), Wade-Giles tzu³)

Compounds

• 紫菜
• 紫丁香
• 紫红
• 紫罗兰/紫羅蘭
• 紫砂
• 紫檀
• 紫外线
• 紫薇
• 紫药水
• 紫云英
• 洋紫荊

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Middle Chinese

Han character

紫 (*tziɛ̌)

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Vietnamese

Han character

紫 (tử, tía)

References

• Nom Foundation