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支

支 U+652F, 支
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-652F
← 攮
[U+652E]		 CJK Unified Ideographs 攰 →
[U+6530]
See also: 攴 and 枝

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TranslingualEdit

Stroke order
 
Stroke order
 

Han characterEdit

 
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Radical 65 支

支 (radical 65 支+0, 4 strokes, cangjie input 十水 (JE), four-corner 40407, composition ⿱十又)

  1. Kangxi radical #65, ⽀ (“branch”).

Derived charactersEdit

See alsoEdit

  • 攴 (graphically similar, appears as variant, as in 鼓, 鼔)

ReferencesEdit

  • KangXi: page 467, character 1
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13061
  • Dae Jaweon: page 814, character 13
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1327, character 14
  • Unihan data for U+652F

ChineseEdit

simp. and trad.
 支

EtymologyEdit

Historical forms of the character 支
Bamboo and silk script Large seal script Small seal script
     
Characters in the same phonetic series (支) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
支 *kje
枝 *kje
肢 *kje
汥 *kje, *ɡe, *ɡres
衼 *kje
馶 *kje, *qʰjes, *kes, *ɡe
鳷 *kje
忮 *kjes
伎 *kjes, *ɡe, *ɡreʔ
豉 *ɡjes
翅 *qʰjes
翄 *qʰjes, *ɡe
妓 *kre, *ɡreʔ
庋 *kreʔ, *kʷreʔ
跂 *kʰeʔ, *kʰes, *ɡe
蚑 *kʰes, *ɡe
吱 *kʰes
岐 *ɡe
歧 *ɡe
鬾 *ɡre, *ɡres
技 *ɡreʔ
芰 *ɡres
攱 *kʷreʔ, *kʷres
庪 *kʷreʔ
頍 *kʰʷeʔ
屐 *ɡreɡ

Pictogram (象形): branches for support.

PronunciationEdit

Note:
  • kî - vernacular;
  • chṳ̂ - literary.
Note:
  • ki - vernacular;
  • chi - literary.
Note: gi1 - vernacular, zin1 - literary.
Rime
Character 支
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 章 (23)
Final (韻) 支 (11)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 章移切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /t͡ɕiᴇ/
Pan
Wuyun		 /t͡ɕiɛ/
Shao
Rongfen		 /t͡ɕjɛ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ciə̆/
Li
Rong		 /t͡ɕie/
Wang
Li		 /t͡ɕǐe/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /t͡ɕie̯/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 zhī
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 支 支
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 zhī zhī
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ tsye › ‹ tsye ›
Old
Chinese		 /*ke/ /*ke/
English support, hold up branch (of tree), limb

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 支
Reading # 1/1
No. 17200
Phonetic
component		 支
Rime
group		 支
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 支
Old
Chinese		 /*kje/

DefinitionsEdit

支

  1. to support; to bear; to sustain
  2. to disburse; to pay; to defray
  3. to prop up; to put up
  4. to send away; to put off somebody
  5. branch; offshoot; subdivision
  6. A surname​.

CompoundsEdit

Derived terms from 支

JapaneseEdit

KanjiEdit

支

(grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. little pieces separated; a branch
  2. hands and legs

ReadingsEdit

Derived termsEdit

KoreanEdit

HanjaEdit

支 • (ji) (hangeul 지)

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VietnameseEdit

Han characterEdit

支 (chi, chề, xê, chia, giê, xài)

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