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指

See also: 🈯 [U+1F22F SQUARED CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6307]
指 U+6307, 指
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[U+6308]

Translingual

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Han character

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指 (Kangxi radical 64, 手+6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 手心日 (QPA), four-corner 51061, composition ⿰扌旨)

References

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  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 429, character 20
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 12034
  • Dae Jaweon: page 778, character 15
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1873, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+6307

Chinese

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trad. 指
simp. # 指
alternative forms 𢫾

Glyph origin

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Historical forms of the character 指
Western Zhou Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
     
Characters in the same phonetic series (旨) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
稽 *kiː, *kʰiːʔ
詣 *ŋɡiːs
栺 *ŋɡiːs, *kji
榰 *klje
脂 *kji
鴲 *kji, *kjis
指 *kjiʔ
旨 *kjiʔ
恉 *kjiʔ
嗜 *ɡjis
蓍 *qʰlji
鰭 *ɡri
耆 *ɡri
鮨 *ɡri
鬐 *ɡri

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *kjiʔ) : semantic 手 + phonetic 旨 (OC *kjiʔ).

Pronunciation

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Note:
  • kí, chái/cháiⁿ/chúiⁿ/chán - vernacular;
  • chí - literary.
    • (Teochew)
      • Peng'im: zi2 / zoin2 / zain2 / gi2 / zeng2
      • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tsí / tsóiⁿ / tsáiⁿ / kí / tsṳ́ng
      • Sinological IPA (key): /t͡si⁵²/, /t͡sõĩ⁵²/, /t͡sãĩ⁵²/, /ki⁵²/, /t͡sɯŋ⁵²/
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  • zi2 - literary;
  • zoin2/zain2 - vernacular (“finger”);
  • zoin2 - Chaozhou, Shantou;
  • zain2 - Jieyang;
  • gi2 - vernacular (“to point”);
  • zeng2 - colloquial (俗).
Rime
Character 指
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 章 (23)
Final (韻) 脂 (17)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 職雉切
Baxter tsyijX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/t͡ɕˠiɪX/
Pan
Wuyun 		/t͡ɕᵚiX/
Shao
Rongfen 		/t͡ɕiɪX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/cjiX/
Li
Rong 		/t͡ɕjiX/
Wang
Li 		/t͡ɕiX/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/t͡ɕiX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		zhǐ
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		zi2
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 指
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		zhǐ
Middle
Chinese 		‹ tsyijX ›
Old
Chinese 		/*mə.kijʔ/
English finger; point

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 指
Reading # 1/1
No. 17325
Phonetic
component 		旨
Rime
group 		脂
Rime
subdivision 		2
Corresponding
MC rime 		旨
Old
Chinese 		/*kjiʔ/

Definitions

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指

  1. finger (Classifier: 個／个 mn-t)
    手指  ―  shǒuzhǐ  ―  finger
  2. to point; to point out; to aim
    指出  ―  zhǐchū  ―  to point out
    指人  ―  zhǐ rén  ―  to point at a person
  3. to indicate; to show; to demonstrate
  4. to refer to; to mean
    春天指的是冬天後面的那個季節。 [MSC, trad.]
    春天指的是冬天后面的那个季节。 [MSC, simp.]
    Chūntiān zhǐ de shì dōngtiān hòumiàn de nàge jìjié. [Pinyin]
    Spring refers to the season after winter.
  5. to rely on; to depend on
  6. to criticize; to rebuke
  7. to make one’s hair stand on end
  8. Classifier for fingerwidths.

Synonyms

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Dialectal synonyms of 手指 (“finger”) [map]
Variety Location Words
Classical Chinese 指
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 手指
Northeastern Mandarin Beijing 手指頭
Taiwan 手指, 手指頭
Hulunbuir (Hailar) 手指頭
Harbin 手指頭
Shenyang 手指頭
Singapore 手指
Jilu Mandarin Jinan 手指頭, 手指
Jiaoliao Mandarin Yantai (Muping) 手指頭兒, 指頭
Central Plains Mandarin Luoyang 指頭
Wanrong 手圪頭
Zhengzhou 手指頭
Xi'an 手指頭, 指頭
Xining 手指頭
Xuzhou 手指頭, 手指
Sokuluk (Gansu Dungan) 指頭
Lanyin Mandarin Yinchuan 指頭
Lanzhou 手指頭
Ürümqi 手指頭
Southwestern Mandarin Chengdu 手指拇兒, 手指
Wuhan 指甲
Guiyang 手指頭
Kunming 手指頭
Guilin 指媽
Liuzhou 手指頭, 手指
Jianghuai Mandarin Nanjing 手指抹頭, 手指頭
Yangzhou 麻則, 手則頭, 則頭
Nantong 手爪兒, 手折頭, 手折末頭兒
Hefei 末爪頭, 末爪頭子, 手爪子
Huanggang 指丫兒
Cantonese Guangzhou 手指
Hong Kong 手指
Hong Kong (San Tin Weitou) 手指
Hong Kong (Kam Tin Weitou) 手指
Hong Kong (Ting Kok) 手指
Hong Kong (Tung Ping Chau) 手指
Macau 手指
Guangzhou (Panyu) 手指
Guangzhou (Huashan, Huadu) 手指
Guangzhou (Conghua) 手指頭
Guangzhou (Zengcheng) 手指
Foshan 手指
Foshan (Shatou, Nanhai) 手指
Foshan (Shunde) 手指
Foshan (Sanshui) 手指
Foshan (Mingcheng, Gaoming) 手指
Zhongshan (Shiqi) 手指
Zhuhai (Qianshan, Xiangzhou) 手指
Zhuhai (Shangheng, Doumen; Tanka) 手指
Zhuhai (Doumen) 手指
Jiangmen (Baisha) 手指
Jiangmen (Xinhui) 手指
Taishan 手指, 手仔
Kaiping (Chikan) 手指
Enping (Niujiang) 手指
Heshan (Yayao) 手指
Dongguan 手指
Shenzhen (Shajing, Bao'an) 手指
Shenzhen (Dapeng) 手指
Shaoguan 手指
Yunfu 手指
Yangjiang 手指
Xinyi 手指
Lianjiang 手指
Nanning 手指
Wuzhou 手指
Yulin 手兒
Hepu (Lianzhou) 手指
Kuala Lumpur (Guangfu) 手指
Ho Chi Minh City (Guangfu) 手指
Gan Nanchang 指頭子, 指頭, 手指頭, 指姆頭子
Lichuan 手節
Pingxiang 手指腦
Hakka Meixian 手指
Huizhou (Huicheng Bendihua) 手指
Dongguan (Qingxi) 手指
Shenzhen (Shatoujiao) 手指
Zhongshan (Nanlang Heshui) 手指
Heyuan (Bendihua) 手指
Liannan 手指
Guangzhou (Lütian, Conghua) 手指
Jiexi 手指頭
Changting 手指頭
Yudu 手指
Shicheng 手指腦
Miaoli (N. Sixian) 手指
Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian) 手指
Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu) 手指
Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu) 手指
Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping) 手指
Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an) 手指頭, 手指
Hong Kong 手指仔
Luchuan (Daqiao) 手指
Senai (Huiyang) 手指
Singkawang 手指
Huizhou Jixi 指頭, 手指頭
Shexian 手美頭, 手指頭
Huangshan (Tunxi) 指指兒, 手指指兒頭
Xiuning 手指指兒
Yixian 手指頭兒
Qimen 手指
Wuyuan 手指頭
Jin Taiyuan 手指頭, 指頭兒
Pingyao 指頭兒
Xinzhou 指頭
Hohhot 指頭子
Northern Min Jian'ou 手指仔
Jian'ou (Dikou) 手仔
Zhenghe (Zhenqian) 手仔
Pucheng (Shibei) 手指仔, 手爪仔
Eastern Min Fuzhou 掌指, 手掌指, 手指
Fuzhou (Changle) 掌指
Fuqing 手掌指
Yongtai 掌指
Gutian 掌指
Fu'an 掌頭
Ningde 掌頭
Shouning 掌頭囝
Zhouning 掌頭
Fuding 掌頭囝
Matsu 掌指, 手掌指
Southern Min Xiamen 掌頭仔, 手爪
Quanzhou 掌頭仔, 手爪
Jinjiang 掌頭仔
Anxi 掌頭仔
Yongchun 掌頭囝
Dehua 掌頭囝
Zhangzhou 手掌頭仔, 手掌指仔, 手掌指, 掌頭仔, 掌指仔, 掌指, 手爪, 手指
Zhangzhou (Changtai) 掌頭仔
Zhao'an 手掌指仔
Dongshan 手掌頭仔
Taipei 掌頭仔
New Taipei (Sanxia) 掌頭仔
Kaohsiung 掌頭仔
Yilan 掌頭仔
Changhua (Lukang) 掌頭仔
Taichung 掌頭仔
Tainan 掌頭仔
Hsinchu 掌頭仔
Kinmen 掌頭仔
Penghu (Magong) 掌頭仔
Penang (Hokkien) 手指, 惹捚
Singapore (Hokkien) 手掌頭仔, 掌頭仔, 手爪
Manila (Hokkien) 掌頭仔
Longyan 手指仔
Zhangping 手指
Zhangping (Yongfu) 手指仔
Datian 手指頭
Pingnan (Shangdu) 手指
Chaozhou 手指
Shantou 手指
Jieyang 指
Haifeng 手指仔
Bangkok (Teochew) 手指
Ho Chi Minh City (Teochew) 指
Johor Bahru (Teochew) 手指
Singapore (Teochew) 手指
Leizhou 手囝
Wenchang 手囝
Haikou 手囝
Puxian Min Putian 手指頭
Southern Pinghua Nanning (Tingzi) 手指, 手指頭
Northern Pinghua Guilin (Dahe) 手指
Shehua Fu'an 手仔
Fuding 手仔
Luoyuan 手仔
Sanming 手仔
Shunchang 手仔
Hua'an 手指
Guixi (Zhangping) 手指仔
Cangnan 手仔
Jingning (Hexi) 手指仔
Lishui 手仔
Longyou 手仔
Chaozhou 手指
Fengshun 手指
Wu Shanghai 手節頭, 手指頭, 節頭官, 節頭骨
Shanghai (Chongming) 手節頭, 節頭
Suzhou 手節頭
Wuxi 手節頭
Danyang 指頭, 手指頭, 手拇指頭
Hangzhou 手指頭兒, 手指頭
Ningbo 指末頭, 手指末頭
Wenzhou 手指頭兒, 指頭兒
Jinhua 手拇執頭, 手指頭
Jinhua (Tangxi) 手末節頭
Xiang Changsha 手指腦, 手指拇
Xiangtan 手指腦
Loudi 手指腦
Shuangfeng 手指腦
Hengyang 手指腦
Quanzhou 手指頭

Compounds

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Descendants

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  • → Thai: ชี้ (chíi, “to point”)

Japanese

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Kanji

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指

(Third grade kyōiku kanji)

Readings

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  • Go-on: し (shi, Jōyō)
  • Kan-on: し (shi, Jōyō)
  • Kun: ゆび (yubi, 指, Jōyō)、さす (sasu, 指す, Jōyō)
  • Nanori: むね (mune)

Etymology

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Kanji in this term
指
ゆび
Grade: 3
kun'yomi

From Old Japanese, from Proto-Japonic *oyonpE.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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指(ゆび) • (yubi)  (counter 本)

  1. a finger (including thumb)
  2. 938, Minamoto no Shitagō, Wamyō Ruijushō, volume 2, page 38:
    指 唐韵云、指. 音旨、由比、俗云於與比
    Finger The Tangyun calls it a finger, sound shi, [Japanese] yubi, commonly called oyobi

(alternative reading hiragana および, rōmaji oyobi)

  1. a finger
  2. 938, Minamoto no Shitagō, Wamyō Ruijushō, volume 2, page 38:
    指 唐韵云、指. 音旨、由比、俗云於與比
    Finger The Tangyun calls it a finger, sound shi, [Japanese] yubi, commonly called oyobi

Derived terms

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References

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  1. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. ^ Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1974), 新明解国語辞典 [Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten] (in Japanese), Second edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō

Korean

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Etymology

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From Middle Chinese 指 (MC tsyijX). Recorded as Middle Korean 지〮 (cí) (Yale: ci) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Hanja

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Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

Wikisource

指 (eumhun 손가락 지 (son'garak ji))

  1. hanja form? of 지 (“finger”)

Compounds

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Compounds

References

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  • 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典. [1]

Okinawan

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Kanji

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指

(Third grade kyōiku kanji)

Readings

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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指(いーび) (ībi) 

  1. finger

Derived terms

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Southern Amami Ōshima

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Kanji

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指

(Third grade kyōiku kanji)

Noun

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指(っいぃーび) ('yībi) 

  1. finger

Vietnamese

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Han character

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指: Hán Nôm readings: chỉ, xỉ, chỏ

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