秭

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秭 U+79ED, 秭
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-79ED
← 秬
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 秮 →

Translingual

Han character

秭 (Kangxi radical 115, 禾+5, 10 strokes, cangjie input 竹木中難竹 (HDLXH), four-corner 25927, composition ⿰禾𠂔)

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 852, character 5
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 25003
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1276, character 8
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2594, character 14
  • Unihan data for U+79ED

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 秭
Wikipedia has articles on:
  • 秭 (Written Standard Chinese?)
  • 秭 (Cantonese)

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (秭) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
姊 *ʔsiʔ
秭 *ʔsiʔ
趀 *sʰi
笫 *ʔsriʔ, *ʔsrɯʔ
胏 *ʔsrɯʔ
柹 *zrɯʔ
柿 *zrɯʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ʔsiʔ) : semantic 禾 (“rice”) + phonetic 𠂔.

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 秭
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 精 (13)
Final (韻) 脂 (15)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 將几切
Baxter tsijX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/t͡siɪX/
Pan
Wuyun 		/t͡siX/
Shao
Rongfen 		/t͡sjɪX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/t͡siX/
Li
Rong 		/t͡siX/
Wang
Li 		/t͡siX/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/t͡siX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		zǐ
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		zi2
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 秭
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		zǐ
Middle
Chinese 		‹ tsijX ›
Old
Chinese 		/*jʔ/
English a high number

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 秭
Reading # 1/1
No. 17871
Phonetic
component 		秭
Rime
group 		脂
Rime
subdivision 		2
Corresponding
MC rime 		𡛷
Old
Chinese 		/*ʔsiʔ/
Notes 依曶鼎金文右上爲屮來，
下粗筆象封堆，
即表禾積義，轉註加禾爲秭

Definitions

秭

  1. a numeral that refers to various numbers, including 109, 1012 and 1024

Compounds

See also

Chinese numerals
104 108 1012 1016 1020 1024 1028 1032 1036 1040 1044 1048
萬／万 (wàn) 億／亿 (yì) 兆 (zhào) (Taiwan) 京 (jīng) (Taiwan) 垓 (gāi) 秭 (zǐ) 穰 (ráng) 溝／沟 (gōu) 澗／涧 (jiàn) 正 (zhèng) 載／载 (zài) 極／极 (jí)
萬億／万亿 (wànyì)
(Mainland China) 		億億/亿亿
(Mainland China)

Japanese

Japanese Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia ja

Kanji

秭

(Hyōgai kanji)

Readings

  • Go-on: し (shi)
  • Kan-on: し (shi)

Number

Kanji in this term
秭
し
Hyōgai
on'yomi

秭(し) • (shi) 

  1. A trillion trillion, 1024, or a septillion of modern English in modern Japanese since 17th century.
    Synonym: 𥝱

Korean

Hanja

秭 • (ja) (hangeul 자, revised ja, McCune–Reischauer cha)

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