祉

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

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TranslingualEdit

Han characterEdit

祉 (radical 113 示+4, 9 strokes, cangjie input 戈火卜中一 (IFYLM), four-corner 3121₀, composition ⿰礻止)

ReferencesEdit

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

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ChineseEdit

simp. and trad.		祉

Glyph originEdit

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).

PronunciationEdit

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zhǐ (zhi³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄓˇ

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

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: zhǐ
    • Zhuyin: ㄓˇ
    • Wade-Giles: chih³
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jyy
    • IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʐ̩²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: zi², ci²
    • Yale: jí, chí
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzi², tsi²
    • Guangdong Romanization: ji², qi²
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡siː³⁵/, /t͡sʰiː³⁵/
• Min Dong
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: cī
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡si³³/
• Wu
  • (Shanghainese)
    • Wiktionary: tshr (T2)
    • 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

• 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/

DefinitionsEdit

祉

1. happiness; blessings; good luck; felicity

CompoundsEdit

• 旅祉
• 潭祉叶吉

• 祉祿／祉禄

• 福祉 (fúzhǐ)

ReferencesEdit

• (Cantonese) Multi-function Chinese Character Database (漢語多功能字庫)

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JapaneseEdit

KanjiEdit

祉

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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ReadingsEdit

• On (unclassified): し (shi, Jōyō); ち (chi)
• Kun: さいわい (saiwai, 祉い)

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KoreanEdit

HanjaEdit

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

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