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智

智 U+667A, 智
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-667A
← 晹
[U+6679] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 晻 →
[U+667B]

Translingual

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Han character

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智 (Kangxi radical 72, 日+8, 12 strokes, cangjie input 人口日 (ORA), four-corner 86600, composition ⿱知日)

References

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  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 497, character 15
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14010
  • Dae Jaweon: page 863, character 23
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1518, character 15
  • Unihan data for U+667A

Chinese

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simp. and trad.
 智
alternative forms 知
𣉻
𥏼

Glyph origin

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Historical forms of the character 智
Shang Western Zhou Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Transcribed ancient scripts
     
Characters in the same phonetic series (矢) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
彘 *l'eds
璏 *l'eds, *ɢʷleds, *ɢʷled
薙 *l̥ʰiːs, *ljiʔ, *l'iʔ
知 *ʔl'e
蜘 *te
智 *ʔl'es
鼅 *te
潪 *teɡs, *deɡ
踟 *de
雉 *l'iʔ
矢 *hliʔ
痴 *l̥ʰɯ

Originally the same character as 知, used interchangeably. In oracle bone inscriptions, ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意): 大 (“adult”) + 口 (“mouth”) + 子 (“child”) – to transmit knowledge. In western Zhou bronze inscriptions, 甘 started being added. As time went by, 子 corrupted into 于, 大 into 矢 (OC *hliʔ), and 甘 into 白, giving rise to the form seen in the Shuowen Jiezi (𥏼). The component 于 was dropped around the Western Han, arriving at the modern form.

Now a Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ʔl'es): phonetic 知 (OC *ʔl'e) + semantic 日.

Etymology

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Exopassive of 知 (OC *ʔl'e, “to know”), literally “what is known > knowledge”.

Pronunciation

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Rime
Character 智
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 知 (9)
Final (韻) 支 (13)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 知義切
Baxter trjeH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/ʈˠiᴇH/
Pan
Wuyun 		/ʈᵚiɛH/
Shao
Rongfen 		/ȶiɛH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/ʈjiə̆H/
Li
Rong 		/ȶjeH/
Wang
Li 		/ȶǐeH/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/ȶie̯H/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		zhì
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		zi3
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 智
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		zhì
Middle
Chinese 		‹ trjeH ›
Old
Chinese 		/*tre-s/
English knowledge

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 智
Reading # 1/1
No. 11497
Phonetic
component 		矢
Rime
group 		支
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		智
Old
Chinese 		/*ʔl'es/

Definitions

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智

  1. wisdom; knowledge; intelligence
    智慧  ―  zhìhuì  ―  wisdom
    智力  ―  zhìlì  ―  intelligence
  2. wise; informed; intelligent; astute
  3. a surname

Compounds

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References

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Japanese

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Kanji

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智

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

  1. intellect
  2. knowledge
  3. wisdom

Readings

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Compounds

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Proper noun

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智(さとし) • (Satoshi) 

  1. a male given name

Usage notes

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In modern Japanese, 智 is mostly replaced by 知, due to the deprecation of non-tōyō kanji caused by the Japanese script reform.

Japanese terms with 智 replaced by daiyōji 知
英知
知恵
知能
知力
無知
理知

Korean

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Etymology

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(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Middle Korean readings, if any”)

Pronunciation

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Hanja

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Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

Wikisource

智 • (ji) (hangeul 지, revised ji, McCune–Reischauer chi, Yale ci)

  1. wisdom
  2. knowledge
  3. intelligence

Vietnamese

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Han character

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智: Hán Nôm readings: trí

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