孳乳

Chinese

		industrious; produce; bear	breast; milk
simp. and trad. (孳乳)		孳	乳

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zīrǔ

  (Zhuyin): ㄗ ㄖㄨˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zi¹ jyu⁵

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zīrǔ
    • Zhuyin: ㄗ ㄖㄨˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: zihrǔ
    • Wade–Giles: tzŭ¹-ju³
    • Yale: dz̄-rǔ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tzyruu
    • Palladius: цзыжу (czyžu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sz̩⁵⁵ ʐu²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: zi¹ jyu⁵
    • Yale: jī yúh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzi¹ jy⁵
    • Guangdong Romanization: ji¹ yu⁵
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡siː⁵⁵ jyː¹³/

Verb

孳乳

1. (literary) to multiply; to propagate

   • 文者，物象之本；字者，言孳乳而寖多也。 [Classical Chinese, trad. and simp.]

     From: 《說文解字》序

     Wén zhě, wùxiàng zhī běn; zì zhě, yán zīrǔ ér jìnduō yě. [Pinyin]

     Writing is the basis of expressing ideas; words are speech propagating and multiplying.

Derived terms

• 孳乳字 (zīrǔzì)