枝

枝 (Kangxi radical 75, 木+4, 8 strokes, cangjie input 木十水 (DJE), four-corner 4494₇, composition ⿰木支)

• 𩓡, 䓩, 𠔢, 𮵴, 𬯾, 𡲅, 𡍁, 㟚, 𧌔, 𪂅

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 516, character 12
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14557
• Dae Jaweon: page 904, character 6
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1165, character 7
• Unihan data for U+679D

Historical forms of the character 枝
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *kje) and ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意): semantic 木 (“tree”) + phonetic 支 (OC *kje, “branch”).

Originally the same word as 支 (OC *kje, “branch (of tree), limb; to support”); see there for more (STEDT).

枝

1. branch; twig

   柳枝低垂在水面上。 [MSC, trad. and simp.]

   Liǔ zhī dīchuí zài shuǐmiàn shang.

   The branches of the willows drooped over the water.

   他把不結果的枝都修剪掉。 [MSC, trad.]
   他把不结果的枝都修剪掉。 [MSC, simp.]

   Tā bǎ bù jiēguǒ de zhī dōu xiūjiǎn diào.

   He pruned every branch that did not bear fruit.

2. Classifier for long cylindrical objects (stick, pen, rod, flower with stem, etc).

   一枝鉛筆／一枝铅笔  ―  yī zhī qiānbǐ  ―  a pencil

   一枝槍／一枝枪  ―  yī zhī qiāng  ―  a gun

3. a surname

• (branch):

枝

1. Alternative form of 跂 (“extra toe”)
2. Alternative form of 歧 (qí, “divergent”)

• “Entry #4211”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2025.

(Fifth grade kyōiku kanji)

1. branch, limbs

• Go-on: し (shi, Jōyō)、ぎ (gi)
• Kan-on: し (shi, Jōyō)、き (ki)
• Kun: えだ (eda, 枝, Jōyō)^{←えだ (eda, えだ, historical)←𛀁だ (yeda, 𛀁だ, ancient)}
• Nanori: え (e)、えだ (eda)、き (ki)、しげ (shige)、しな (shina)

• Shift_JIS: 8E7D
• JIS: 3B5E

Inherited from earlier yeda, from Old Japanese, from Proto-Japonic *yonta. Cognate with Kunigami 枝 (yudā), Miyako 枝 (yuda), Okinawan 枝 (yida), 枝 (yuda), Yaeyama 枝 (yuda), Yonaguni 枝 (duda). The vowel change is irregular.

枝(えだ) • (eda) ^{←えだ (eda)?}

1. branch, limbs
2. (graph theory) edge

• 葉(は) (ha, “leaf”)

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

1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

(Fifth grade kyōiku kanji)

• Kun: ゆだー (yuthā, 枝)

Inherited from Proto-Ryukyuan *yoda, from Proto-Japonic *yonta.

• IPA^(key): /judaː/

枝(ゆだー) (yuthā) 

1. branch (of a tree or plant); bough

• “ゆだー【枝】” in JLect - Japonic Languages and Dialects Database Dictionary, 2019.

(Fifth grade kyōiku kanji)

• Kun: ゆだ (yuda, 枝)

Inherited from Proto-Ryukyuan *yoda, from Proto-Japonic *yonta.

• IPA^(key): /juda/

枝(ゆだ) (yuda) 

1. branch (of a tree or plant); bough

• “ゆだ【枝】” in JLect - Japonic Languages and Dialects Database Dictionary, 2019.

(Fifth grade kyōiku kanji)

• Kun: いぃだ (yida, 枝)、ゆだ (yuda, 枝)

Inherited from Proto-Ryukyuan *yoda, from Proto-Japonic *yonta.

• IPA^(key): /jida/, /juda/

枝(いぃだ) or 枝(ゆだ) (yida or yuda) 

1. branch (of a tree or plant); bough

• “いだ・いぃだ・ゐだ・ゆぃだ【枝】” in JLect - Japonic Languages and Dialects Database Dictionary, 2019.
• “ゆだ【枝】” in JLect - Japonic Languages and Dialects Database Dictionary, 2019.

枝: Hán Nôm readings: chi, che

1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

(Fifth grade kyōiku kanji)

• Kun: ゆだ (yuda, 枝)

Inherited from Proto-Ryukyuan *yoda, from Proto-Japonic *yonta.

• IPA^(key): /juda/

枝(ゆだ) (yuda) 

1. branch (of a tree or plant); bough

• “ゆだ【枝】” in JLect - Japonic Languages and Dialects Database Dictionary, 2019.

(Fifth grade kyōiku kanji)

• Kun: どぅだ (duda, 枝)

Inherited from Proto-Ryukyuan *yoda, from Proto-Japonic *yonta.

• IPA^(key): /duda/

枝(どぅだ) (duda) 

1. branch (of a tree or plant); bough

• “どぅだ【枝】” in JLect - Japonic Languages and Dialects Database Dictionary, 2019.