祉

祉 U+7949, 祉 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7949 ← 祈 [U+7948] CJK Unified Ideographs 祊 → [U+794A]

祉 U+FA4D, 祉 CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-FA4D ← 社 [U+FA4C] CJK Compatibility Ideographs 祈 → [U+FA4E]

Translingual

Han character

祉 (Kangxi radical 113, 示+4, 8 strokes, cangjie input 戈火卜中一 (IFYLM), four-corner 3121₀, composition ⿰礻止)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 840, character 10
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 24641
• Dae Jaweon: page 1258, character 13
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2388, character 12
• Unihan data for U+7949

• Unihan data for U+FA4D

Chinese

simp. and trad.		祉

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 祉
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

Characters in the same phonetic series (止) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
祉	*kʰlɯʔ
址	*kjɯʔ
止	*kjɯʔ
趾	*kjɯʔ
芷	*kjɯʔ
沚	*kjɯʔ
阯	*kjɯʔ
齒	*kʰjɯʔ
紕	*be, *pʰi, *kʰjɯʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *kʰlɯʔ): semantic 示 (“sign”) + phonetic 止 (OC *kjɯʔ).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zhǐ (zhi³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄓˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zi² / ci²
• Hakka

  (Sixian, PFS): chṳ́

  (Hailu, HRS): zhi^ˊ

• Eastern Min (BUC): cī
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): zi³
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): chí

  (Teochew, Peng'im): zi²

• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁵tshy

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zhǐ
    • Zhuyin: ㄓˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jhǐh
    • Wade–Giles: chih³
    • Yale: jř
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jyy
    • Palladius: чжи (čži)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʐ̩²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: zi² / ci²
    • Yale: jí / chí
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzi² / tsi²
    • Guangdong Romanization: ji² / qi²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡siː³⁵/, /t͡sʰiː³⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chṳ́
    • Hakka Romanization System: zii^ˋ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: zi³
    • Sinological IPA: /t͡sɨ³¹/
  • (Hailu, incl. Zhudong)
    • Hakka Romanization System: zhi^ˊ
    • Sinological IPA: /t͡ʃi²⁴/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: cī
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡si³³/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: zi³
    • Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: cî
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡si⁴⁵³/
  • (Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: zi³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡si³³²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chí
    • Tâi-lô: tsí
    • Phofsit Daibuun: cie
    • IPA (Xiamen): /t͡si⁵³/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡si⁵⁵⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡si⁵³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡si⁵³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡si⁴¹/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: zi²
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tsí
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡si⁵²/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ⁵tshy
    • MiniDict: tshy^去
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ²tshr
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /t͡sʰz̩³⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: trhiX

Rime
Character	祉
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	徹 (10)
Final (韻)	之 (19)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	敕里切
Baxter	trhiX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʈʰɨX/
Pan Wuyun	/ʈʰɨX/
Shao Rongfen	/ȶʰieX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʈʰɨX/
Li Rong	/ȶʰiəX/
Wang Li	/ȶʰĭəX/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ȶʰiX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	chǐ
Expected Cantonese Reflex	ci2

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[tʰ]rəʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*kʰlɯʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	祉
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	zhǐ
Middle Chinese	‹ trhiX ›
Old Chinese	/*[tʰ]rəʔ/
English	blessings
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	祉
Reading #	1/1
No.	17295
Phonetic component	止
Rime group	之
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	恥
Old Chinese	/*kʰlɯʔ/

Definitions

祉

1. happiness; blessings; good luck; felicity

Compounds

• 旅祉
• 潭祉叶吉
• 祉祿 / 祉禄
• 福祉 (fúzhǐ)

References

• “祉”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[2], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
• William Campbell (1913) A dictionary of the Amoy vernacular spoken throughout the prefectures of Chin-Chiu, Chiang-Chiu and Formosa (in Hokkien), 8th edition, Tainan: Taiwan Church Press, published 1961, →OCLC.
• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “祉”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 309.

Japanese

Shinjitai	祉
Kyūjitai	祉 祉 or 祉+︀?
	祉󠄁 祉+󠄁? (Adobe-Japan1)
	祉󠄃 祉+󠄃? (Hanyo-Denshi) (Moji_Joho)
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Kanji

祉

(Jōyō kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 祉)

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Readings

• Go-on: ち (chi)
• Kan-on: ち (chi)
• Kan’yō-on: し (shi, Jōyō)
• Kun: さいわい (saiwai, 祉い)^{←さいはひ (saifafi, 祉ひ, historical)}
• Nanori: とみ (tomi)、よし (yoshi)

Korean

Hanja

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

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