恣

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恣 U+6063, 恣
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6063
← 恢
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 恤 →

Translingual

Han character

恣 (Kangxi radical 61, 心+6, 10 strokes, cangjie input 戈人心 (IOP) or 一人心 (MOP), four-corner 37338, composition ⿱次心)

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 385, character 2
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 10580
  • Dae Jaweon: page 715, character 19
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2292, character 9
  • Unihan data for U+6063

Chinese

trad. 恣
simp. # 恣

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 恣
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
Characters in the same phonetic series (次) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
咨 *ʔsli
資 *ʔsli
姿 *ʔsli
粢 *ʔsli
諮 *ʔsli
恣 *ʔslis
澬 *ʔsli, *zli
趑 *sʰli
蠀 *sʰli
次 *sn̥ʰis
佽 *sl̥ʰis
絘 *sl̥ʰis
薋 *zli
瓷 *zli
茨 *zli
餈 *zli
垐 *zli, *zlɯɡ
楶 *ʔsliːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ʔslis) : phonetic 次 (OC *sn̥ʰis) + semantic 心.

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 恣
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 精 (13)
Final (韻) 脂 (15)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 資四切
Baxter tsijH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/t͡siɪH/
Pan
Wuyun 		/t͡siH/
Shao
Rongfen 		/t͡sjɪH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/t͡siH/
Li
Rong 		/t͡siH/
Wang
Li 		/t͡siH/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/t͡siH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		zì
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		zi3
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 恣
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		zì
Middle
Chinese 		‹ tsijH ›
Old
Chinese 		/*tsi-s/
English unrestrained, license

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 恣
Reading # 1/1
No. 1790
Phonetic
component 		次
Rime
group 		脂
Rime
subdivision 		2
Corresponding
MC rime 		恣
Old
Chinese 		/*ʔslis/

Definitions

恣

  1. to indulge oneself; to be profligate; to throw off restraint
  2. to allow someone to do as they please
  3. wantonly; to one’s heart's content
  4. to change
  5. (dialectal) comfortable; cosy

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

恣

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. selfish

Readings

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
恣
し
Grade: S
on’yomi

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 恣 – see the following entry.
【縦ほしいまま】6
selfish, at will
arbitrary
Alternative spellings
擅, 欲しい儘, 欲しい侭, 肆
(This term, 恣, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

Korean

Hanja

恣 (eum 자 (ja))

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Vietnamese

Han character

恣: Hán Nôm readings: thư, tứ

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References

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