緇

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See also: 缁
緇 U+7DC7, 緇
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7DC7
← 緆
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 緈 →
緇 U+2F96E, 緇
CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-2F96E
← 䌁
 		CJK Compatibility Ideographs Supplement 縂 →

Translingual

Han character

緇 (Kangxi radical 120, 糸+8, 14 strokes, cangjie input 女火女女田 (VFVVW), four-corner 22963, composition ⿰糹甾)

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 929, character 5
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27600
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1366, character 14
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3422, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+7DC7

Chinese

trad. 緇
simp. 缁

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (甾) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
輜 *ʔsrɯ, *sʰrɯ
淄 *ʔsrɯ
錙 *ʔsrɯ
緇 *ʔsrɯ
甾 *ʔsrɯ
菑 *ʔsrɯ, *ʔsɯː, *ʔsɯː
鶅 *ʔsrɯ, *ʔsrɯs
椔 *ʔsrɯ, *ʔsrɯs
鯔 *ʔsrɯ

Etymology

緇 (OC *tsrə) "black < color of burnt soil?", possibly same word as 菑 (OC *tsrə) "field cleared by slash and burn" (Schuessler, 2007). See there for etymology.

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 緇
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 莊 (18)
Final (韻) 之 (19)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 側持切
Baxter tsri
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/t͡ʃɨ/
Pan
Wuyun 		/ʈ͡ʂɨ/
Shao
Rongfen 		/t͡ʃie/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/ʈ͡ʂɨ/
Li
Rong 		/t͡ʃiə/
Wang
Li 		/t͡ʃĭə/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/ʈ͡ʂi/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		zhī
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		zi1
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 緇
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		zī
Middle
Chinese 		‹ tsri ›
Old
Chinese 		/*rə/
English black

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 緇
Reading # 1/1
No. 17823
Phonetic
component 		甾
Rime
group 		之
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		葘
Old
Chinese 		/*ʔsrɯ/

Definitions

緇

  1. (literary) to blacken
  2. (literary) black

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

緇

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

  • On (unclassified): し (shi)
  • Kun: くろ (kuro)

Korean

Hanja

緇 • (chi) (hangeul 치, revised chi, McCune–Reischauer ch'i, Yale chi)

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