祇

See also: 衹 and 祗

祇	U+7947, 祇 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7947

← 祆
[U+7946]

CJK Unified Ideographs

祈 →
[U+7948]

Translingual

Han character

祇 (Kangxi radical 113, 示+4, 8 strokes in Chinese, 9 strokes in Japanese and Korean, cangjie input 戈火竹女心 (IFHVP), four-corner 3224₀, composition ⿰礻氏)

Derived characters

𭉌

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 840, character 8
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 24639
Dae Jaweon: page 1258, character 10
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2389, character 1
Unihan data for U+7947

Chinese

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／形声, OC *ɡe) : semantic 示 + phonetic 氏 (OC *skeŋ, *kje, *ɡjeʔ).

Etymology 1

simp. and trad.		祇
alternative forms		祗

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): qí (qi²)

(Zhuyin): ㄑㄧˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): kei⁴
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): kî

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: qí
  - Zhuyin: ㄑㄧˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: cí
  - Wade–Giles: chʻi²
  - Yale: chí
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chyi
  - Palladius: ци (ci)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰi³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: kei⁴
  - Yale: kèih
  - Cantonese Pinyin: kei⁴
  - Guangdong Romanization: kéi⁴
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰei̯²¹/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kî
  - Tâi-lô: kî
  - Phofsit Daibuun: kii
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /ki¹³/
  - IPA (Xiamen, Quanzhou): /ki²⁴/

Middle Chinese: gjie

Rime
Character	祇
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	群 (30)
Final (韻)	支 (11)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	巨支切
Baxter	gjie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɡiᴇ/
Pan Wuyun	/ɡiɛ/
Shao Rongfen	/ɡjɛ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/giə̆/
Li Rong	/ɡie/
Wang Li	/ɡǐe/
Bernard Karlgren	/gie̯/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	qí
Expected Cantonese Reflex	kei⁴

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*[k.d]e/

(Zhengzhang): /*ɡe/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	祇
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	qí
Middle Chinese	‹ gjie ›
Old Chinese	/[k.d]e/ (dialect: k.d- > ɡ.d- > ɡ-, no palatalization)
English	earth spirit
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	祇
Reading #	1/1
No.	11526
Phonetic component	氏
Rime group	支
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	祇
Old Chinese	/*ɡe/

Definitions

祇

earth spirit
^† big
to feel relieved; to be at ease
this

Compounds

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 祇 – see 只 (“only; just; simply; merely; originally; at first; etc.”). (This character is a variant traditional form of 只).

References

Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A02884

Japanese

Shinjitai (extended)	Shinjitai (extended)	祇󠄀 祇+`󠄀`^? (Adobe-Japan1)
祇󠄂 祇+`󠄂`^? (Hanyo-Denshi) (Moji_Joho)
Kyūjitai	祇
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Kanji

祇

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

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Readings

Go-on: ぎ (gi)
Kan-on: き (ki)
Kan’yō-on: し (shi)
Kun: くにつかみ (kunitsukami, 祇)、ただ (tada, 祇)、まさに (masani)
Nanori: まさ (masa)

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

祇 • (gi, ji) (hangeul 기, 지, revised gi, ji, McCune–Reischauer ki, chi, Yale ki, ci)

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Compounds

신기 (神祇, sin'gi)

Vietnamese

Han character

祇: Hán Việt readings: chi, chỉ, kì, kỳ
祇: Nôm readings: chỉ

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