坁

坁 U+5741, 坁 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5741 ← 址 [U+5740] CJK Unified Ideographs 坂 → [U+5742]

Translingual

Han character

坁 (radical 32, 土+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 土竹女心 (GHVP), four-corner 4214₀, composition ⿰土氏)

Further reading

• KangXi: page 224, character 25
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 4909
• Dae Jaweon: page 459, character 13
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 425, character 2
• Unihan data for U+5741

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		坁

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
氏	*skeŋ, *kje, *ɡjeʔ
衹	*kje, *ɡe
紙	*kjeʔ
帋	*kjeʔ
扺	*kjeʔ
坁	*kjeʔ
汦	*kjeʔ, *tjil
忯	*ɡje, *ɡe
眂	*ɡje, *ɡils
舐	*ɦljeʔ
芪	*ɡe
祇	*ɡe
疧	*ɡe
軝	*ɡe
蚔	*ɡe

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *kjeʔ): semantic 土 (“earth”) + phonetic 氏 (OC *skeŋ, *kje, *ɡjeʔ).

Pronunciation 1

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zhǐ (zhi³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄓˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zi²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: zhǐ
    • Zhuyin: ㄓˇ
    • Wade–Giles: chih3
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jyy
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jhǐh
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʐ̩²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: zi²
    • Yale: jí
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzi²
    • Guangdong Romanization: ji²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡siː³⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: /t͡ɕiᴇ^X/

Rime
Character	坁
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	章 (23)
Final (韻)	支 (11)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	諸氏切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡ɕiᴇX/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡ɕiɛX/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡ɕjɛX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ciə̆X/
Li Rong	/t͡ɕieX/
Wang Li	/t͡ɕǐeX/
Bernard Karlgren	/t͡ɕie̯X/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zhǐ
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zi2

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*kjeʔ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	坁
Reading #	1/1
No.	11519
Phonetic component	氏
Rime group	支
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	紙
Old Chinese	/*kjeʔ/
Notes	原誤坻依校改

Definitions

坁

1. to stop
2. to prohibit

Pronunciation 2

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zhì (zhi⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄓˋ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: zhì
    • Zhuyin: ㄓˋ
    • Wade–Giles: chih4
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jyh
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jhìh
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʐ̩⁵¹/

Definitions

坁

1. hillside, mountainside

References

• “坁”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

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Japanese

Kanji

坁

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: し (shi)
• Kan-on: し (shi)
• Kun: とまる (tomaru, 坁まる); さか (saka, 坁)