肢

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肢 U+80A2, 肢
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-80A2
← 股
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 肣 →

Translingual

Han character

肢 (Kangxi radical 130, 肉+4, 8 strokes, cangjie input 月十水 (BJE), four-corner 74247, composition ⿰月支)

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 974, character 18
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 29285
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1426, character 8
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2047, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+80A2

Chinese

trad. 肢
simp. # 肢
alternative forms 胑
𨈪
𩨵
𨈛

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 肢
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
Characters in the same phonetic series (支) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
支 *kje
枝 *kje
肢 *kje
汥 *kje, *ɡe, *ɡres
衼 *kje
馶 *kje, *qʰjes, *kes, *ɡe
鳷 *kje
忮 *kjes
伎 *kjes, *ɡe, *ɡreʔ
豉 *ɡjes
翅 *qʰjes
翄 *qʰjes, *ɡe
妓 *kre, *ɡreʔ
庋 *kreʔ, *kʷreʔ
跂 *kʰeʔ, *kʰes, *ɡe
蚑 *kʰes, *ɡe
吱 *kʰes
岐 *ɡe
歧 *ɡe
鬾 *ɡre, *ɡres
技 *ɡreʔ
芰 *ɡres
攱 *kʷreʔ, *kʷres
庪 *kʷreʔ
頍 *kʰʷeʔ
屐 *ɡreɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *kje) : semantic 肉 (“flesh”) + phonetic 支 (OC *kje).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 肢
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 章 (23)
Final (韻) 支 (11)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 章移切
Baxter tsye
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/t͡ɕiᴇ/
Pan
Wuyun 		/t͡ɕiɛ/
Shao
Rongfen 		/t͡ɕjɛ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/ciə̆/
Li
Rong 		/t͡ɕie/
Wang
Li 		/t͡ɕǐe/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/t͡ɕie̯/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		zhī
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		zi1
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 肢
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		zhī
Middle
Chinese 		‹ tsye ›
Old
Chinese 		/*ke/
English limb

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 肢
Reading # 1/1
No. 17202
Phonetic
component 		支
Rime
group 		支
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		支
Old
Chinese 		/*kje/

Definitions

肢

  1. (anatomy) limbs; feet

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

肢

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. limb

Readings

Compounds

Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 肢 (MC tsye). Recorded as Middle Korean 지 (ci) (Yale: ci) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Hanja

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

Wikisource

肢 (eumhun 팔다리 지 (paldari ji))

  1. Hanja form? of 지 (“limb”).

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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