稚

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See also: 穉 and 推
稚 U+7A1A, 稚
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7A1A
← 稙
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 稛 →

Translingual

Han character

稚 (Kangxi radical 115, 禾+8, 13 strokes, cangjie input 竹木人土 (HDOG), four-corner 20914, composition ⿰禾隹)

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 855, character 9
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 25120
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1280, character 14
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2613, character 10
  • Unihan data for U+7A1A

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 稚
alternative forms 稺
穉

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *l'ils) : semantic 禾 (“rice”) + phonetic 屖 (OC *sliːl).

During the Han Dynasty, the 屖 component was commonly substituted with 隹 (zhuī).

Etymology

Related to 遲 (OC *l'il, “slow; late”) (Liu, 1999; Schuessler, 2007).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 稚
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 澄 (11)
Final (韻) 脂 (17)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 直利切
Baxter drijH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/ɖˠiɪH/
Pan
Wuyun 		/ɖᵚiH/
Shao
Rongfen 		/ȡiɪH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/ɖjiH/
Li
Rong 		/ȡjiH/
Wang
Li 		/ȡiH/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/ȡʱiH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		zhì
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		zi6
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 稚
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		zhì
Middle
Chinese 		‹ drijH ›
Old
Chinese 		/*lrəj-s/
English young

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 稚
Reading # 1/1
No. 17388
Phonetic
component 		稚
Rime
group 		脂
Rime
subdivision 		1
Corresponding
MC rime 		緻
Old
Chinese 		/*l'ils/
Notes 說文作稺，此疑雉省聲

Definitions

稚

  1. † immature grain
  2. ⁜ young; infantile; immature
  3. ⁜ child; infant

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

稚

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. immature
  2. young

Readings

Compounds

Compounds

Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 稚 (MC drijH). Recorded as Middle Korean 티〯 (thǐ) (Yale: thi) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Hanja

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

Wikisource

稚 (eumhun 어릴 치 (eoril chi))

  1. Hanja form? of 치 (“infantile”).

Compounds

Compounds

References

  • 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典.
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