咨

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See also: 諮 and 谘
咨 U+54A8, 咨
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-54A8
← 咧
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 咩 →

Translingual

Han character

咨 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 戈人口 (IOR) or 一人口 (MOR), four-corner 37608, composition ⿱次口)

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 186, character 11
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3538
  • Dae Jaweon: page 405, character 32
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 621, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+54A8

Chinese

trad. 咨/諮
simp. 咨/谘

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 咨
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
Characters in the same phonetic series (次) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
咨 *ʔsli
資 *ʔsli
姿 *ʔsli
粢 *ʔsli
諮 *ʔsli
恣 *ʔslis
澬 *ʔsli, *zli
趑 *sʰli
蠀 *sʰli
次 *sn̥ʰis
佽 *sl̥ʰis
絘 *sl̥ʰis
薋 *zli
瓷 *zli
茨 *zli
餈 *zli
垐 *zli, *zlɯɡ
楶 *ʔsliːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ʔsli) : phonetic 次 (OC *sn̥ʰis) + semantic 口 (“mouth”).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 咨
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 精 (13)
Final (韻) 脂 (15)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 即夷切
Baxter tsij
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/t͡siɪ/
Pan
Wuyun 		/t͡si/
Shao
Rongfen 		/t͡sjɪ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/t͡si/
Li
Rong 		/t͡si/
Wang
Li 		/t͡si/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/t͡si/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		zī
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		zi1
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 咨
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		zī
Middle
Chinese 		‹ tsij ›
Old
Chinese 		/*ij/
English consult; plan (v.)

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 咨
Reading # 1/1
No. 1785
Phonetic
component 		次
Rime
group 		脂
Rime
subdivision 		2
Corresponding
MC rime 		咨
Old
Chinese 		/*ʔsli/

Definitions

咨

  1. to consult
  2. official document
  3. an interjection used to indicate appreciation
  4. to sigh
  5. to show the teeth
  6. Alternative form of 資／资 (zī)
  7. Alternative form of 茲／兹
  8. Alternative form of 齜／龇 (zī)

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

咨

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

  • Go-on: し (shi)
  • Kan-on: し (shi)
  • Kun: はかる (hakaru, 咨る)

Korean

Hanja

咨 (eum 자 (ja))

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Vietnamese

Han character

咨: Hán Nôm readings: tư, ti

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References

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