緇

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

• 𫊄

• 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

• Unihan data for U+2F96E

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.

緇

1. (literary) to blacken

   • 不曰白乎，涅而不緇。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     不曰白乎，涅而不缁。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Analects of Confucius, c. 475 – 221 BCE

     Bù yuē bái hū, niè ér bù zī.

     Is it not said, that, if a thing be really white, it may be steeped in a dark fluid without being made black?

2. (literary) black

   • 緇衣之宜兮 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad.]
     缁衣之宜兮 [Pre-Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11^th – 7^th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

     zī yī zhī yí xī

     How well do the black robes befit you!

(Hyōgai kanji)

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

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

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