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: page 840, character 10
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19817
• 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

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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, OC *kʰlɯʔ): semantic 示 (“sign”) + phonetic 止 (OC *kjɯʔ).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zhǐ (zhi³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄓˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zi², ci²
• Min Dong (BUC): cī
• Min Nan (POJ): chí
• Wu (Wiktionary): tshr (T2)

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: zhǐ
    • Zhuyin: ㄓˇ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jyy
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jhǐh
    • Wade–Giles: chih3
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʐ̩²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: zi², ci²
    • Yale: jí, chí
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzi², tsi²
    • Guangdong Romanization: ji², qi²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡siː³⁵/, /t͡sʰiː³⁵/
• Min Dong
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: cī
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡si³³/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chí
    • Tâi-lô: tsí
    • Phofsit Daibuun: cie
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡ɕi⁵⁵⁴/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /t͡ɕi⁵³/
• Wu
  • (Shanghainese)
    • Wiktionary: tshr (T2)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰz̩³⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: /ʈʰɨ^X/

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
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʈʰɨX/
Pan Wuyun	/ʈʰɨX/
Shao Rongfen	/ȶʰieX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʈʰɨX/
Li Rong	/ȶʰiəX/
Wang Li	/ȶʰĭəX/
Bernard 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)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

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Japanese

Shinjitai	祉
Kyūjitai	祉

Kanji

祉

(common “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)^{←さいわひ (saiwafi, historical)}

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Korean

Hanja

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

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