志

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See also: 誌
志 U+5FD7, 志
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5FD7
← 忖
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 忘 →

志 U+2F89E, 志
CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-2F89E
← 忍
 		CJK Compatibility Ideographs Supplement 忹 →

Translingual

Stroke order
0 strokes

Han character

志 (Kangxi radical 61, 心+3, 7 strokes, cangjie input 土心 (GP), four-corner 40331, composition ⿱士心)

Derived characters

Descendants

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 376, character 21
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 10331
  • Dae Jaweon: page 703, character 7
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2269, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+5FD7

Chinese

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (之) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
之 *tjɯ
芝 *tjɯ
志 *tjɯs
痣 *tjɯs
娡 *tjɯs
誌 *tjɯs
蚩 *tʰjɯ
妛 *tʰjɯ
嗤 *tʰjɯ
媸 *tʰjɯ
旹 *djɯ
滍 *diʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *tjɯs) : phonetic 之 (OC *tjɯ) + semantic 心.

Note that the top has been simplified and is now graphically 士.

Etymology 1

simp. and trad.
 志
alternative forms
 
𢖽
𢗍
誌 partial
識 partial
痣 partial
𢖽
𢗍
誌 partial
識 partial
痣 partial
䏯 partial

From 之 (OC *tjɯ, “to go; to proceed”) + endopassive suffix *-s, literally “what is being proceeded to” (Schuessler, 2007).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 志
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 章 (23)
Final (韻) 之 (19)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 職吏切
Baxter tsyiH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/t͡ɕɨH/
Pan
Wuyun 		/t͡ɕɨH/
Shao
Rongfen 		/t͡ɕieH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/cɨH/
Li
Rong 		/t͡ɕiəH/
Wang
Li 		/t͡ɕĭəH/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/t͡ɕiH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		zhì
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		zi3
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 志
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		zhì
Middle
Chinese 		‹ tsyiH ›
Old
Chinese 		/*tə-s/
English goal, intention, aspiration

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * 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 志
Reading # 1/1
No. 17190
Phonetic
component 		之
Rime
group 		之
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		志
Old
Chinese 		/*tjɯs/
Notes 說文之聲

Definitions

志

  1. will; determination; aspiration; ambition
  2. Alternative form of 誌 (zhì, “annals; records”)
  3. a surname

Compounds

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (志):
  • → Vietnamese: chí (志)

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 志 – see 誌 (“records, annals; to memorize; etc.”).
(This character is the simplified form of 誌).
Notes:

Japanese

Kanji

志

(grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. purpose, will, determination, aspiration, ambition

Readings

Compounds

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
志
こころざし
Grade: 5
kun’yomi

The 連用形 (ren'yōkei, “continuative or stem form”) of verb 志す (kokorozasu, “to intend to do something, to aspire to do something”).

Pronunciation

Noun

志(こころざし) • (kokorozashi) 

  1. intention, aspiration, aim, ambition, will
Usage notes

This is one of only four everyday kanji with a five-mora reading, and one of only two nouns. The only other kanji with five-mora readings are 承 in the verb 承(うけたまわ)る (uketamawaru), 慮 in the verb 慮(おもんぱか)る (omonpakaru), and 詔(みことのり) (mikotonori). No kanji in common use has a six- or more mora reading. (Also see 謀(はかりごと) (hakarigoto))

The unusually long reading is due to two factors: 志(こころざし) (kokorozashi) is a nominalization of the verb 志(こころざ)す (kokorozasu), which has a long reading (four morae, kokoroza-su), which itself is a noun-verb compound, 心(こころ)指(ざ)す (kokorozasu). The nominalization absorbs the okurigana, hence increasing the reading by one mora, yielding 4+1=5, or more finely 3+(1+1)=5 (compare common 話(はなし) (hanashi) 2+1=3, from 話(はな)す (hanasu)).

Etymology 2

Various name readings.

Proper noun

志(ゆき) • (Yuki) 

  1. a female given name

志(ここ) • (Koko) 

  1. a female given name

志(こころ) • (Kokoro) 

  1. a female given name

志(のぞみ) • (Nozomi) 

  1. a female given name

志(しい) • (Shii) 

  1. a female given name

志(のぞむ) • (Nozomu) 

  1. a male given name

志(し) • (Shi) 

  1. a surname

References

  1. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja

志 (eumhun 뜻 지 (tteut ji))

  1. Hanja form? of 지 (“intention, will”).

Compounds

Vietnamese

Han character

志: Hán Nôm readings: chí, cao

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