祇

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See also: 衹 and 祗
祇 U+7947, 祇
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7947
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 		CJK Unified Ideographs 祈 →

Translingual

Han character

祇 (Kangxi radical 113, 示+4, 8 strokes in Chinese, 9 strokes in Japanese and Korean, cangjie input 戈火竹女心 (IFHVP), four-corner 32240, composition ⿰礻氏)

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 840, character 8
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 24639
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1258, character 10
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2389, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+7947

Chinese

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (氏) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
氏 *skeŋ, *kje, *ɡjeʔ
衹 *kje, *ɡe
紙 *kjeʔ
帋 *kjeʔ
扺 *kjeʔ
坁 *kjeʔ
汦 *kjeʔ, *tjil
忯 *ɡje, *ɡe
眂 *ɡje, *ɡils
舐 *ɦljeʔ
芪 *ɡe
祇 *ɡe
疧 *ɡe
軝 *ɡe
蚔 *ɡe

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ɡe) : semantic 示 + phonetic 氏 (OC *skeŋ, *kje, *ɡjeʔ).

Etymology 1

simp. and trad.
 祇
alternative forms 祗

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 祇
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 群 (30)
Final (韻) 支 (11)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 巨支切
Baxter gjie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/ɡiᴇ/
Pan
Wuyun 		/ɡiɛ/
Shao
Rongfen 		/ɡjɛ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/giə̆/
Li
Rong 		/ɡie/
Wang
Li 		/ɡǐe/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/gie̯/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		qí
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		kei4
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 祇
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		qí
Middle
Chinese 		‹ gjie ›
Old
Chinese 		/*e/ (dialect: *k.d- > *ɡ.d- > *ɡ-, no palatalization)
English earth spirit

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 祇
Reading # 1/1
No. 11526
Phonetic
component 		氏
Rime
group 		支
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		祇
Old
Chinese 		/*ɡe/

Definitions

祇

  1. earth spirit
  2. † big
  3. to feel relieved; to be at ease
  4. this

Compounds

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 祇 – see 只 (“only; just; simply; merely; originally; at first; etc.”).
(This character is a variant traditional form of 只).

References

Japanese

Shinjitai
(extended) 		Shinjitai
(extended)
祇󠄀
祇+&#xE0100;?
(Adobe-Japan1)
祇󠄂
祇+&#xE0102;?
(Hanyo-Denshi)
(Moji_Joho)
Kyūjitai 祇
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Kanji

祇

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings

Compounds

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

祇 • (gi, ji) (hangeul 기, 지, revised gi, ji, McCune–Reischauer ki, chi, Yale ki, ci)

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Compounds

Compounds

Vietnamese

Han character

祇: Hán Việt readings: chi, chỉ, kì, kỳ
祇: Nôm readings: chỉ

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