趾

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趾 U+8DBE, 趾
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 		CJK Unified Ideographs 趿 →

Translingual

Han character

趾 (Kangxi radical 157, 足+4, 11 strokes, cangjie input 口一卜中一 (RMYLM), four-corner 61110, composition ⿰𧾷止)

  1. toe
  2. tracks, footprints

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1222, character 15
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 37406
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1693, character 37
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3691, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+8DBE

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 趾

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (止) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
祉 *kʰlɯʔ
址 *kjɯʔ
止 *kjɯʔ
趾 *kjɯʔ
芷 *kjɯʔ
沚 *kjɯʔ
阯 *kjɯʔ
齒 *kʰjɯʔ
紕 *be, *pʰi, *kʰjɯʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *kjɯʔ) : semantic 足 (“foot”) + phonetic 止 (OC *kjɯʔ)

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 趾
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 章 (23)
Final (韻) 之 (19)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 諸市切
Baxter tsyiX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/t͡ɕɨX/
Pan
Wuyun 		/t͡ɕɨX/
Shao
Rongfen 		/t͡ɕieX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/cɨX/
Li
Rong 		/t͡ɕiəX/
Wang
Li 		/t͡ɕĭəX/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/t͡ɕiX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		zhǐ
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		zi2
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 趾
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		zhǐ
Middle
Chinese 		‹ tsyiX ›
Old
Chinese 		/*təʔ/
English foot, heel, toe

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 趾
Reading # 1/1
No. 17298
Phonetic
component 		止
Rime
group 		之
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		止
Old
Chinese 		/*kjɯʔ/
Notes 趾轉註字

Definitions

趾

  1. (anatomy) toe; foot
  2. track; footprint

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

趾

(Hyōgai kanji)

  1. toe

Readings

  • Go-on: し (shi)
  • Kan-on: し (shi)
  • Kun: あしゆび (ashiyubi, 趾)、あと (ato, 趾)、もと (moto)

Etymology

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Kanji in this term
趾
あしゆび
Hyōgai
kun'yomi

Noun

趾(あしゆび) • (ashiyubi) 

  1. (anatomy) toe

Alternative forms

Korean

Hanja

趾 • (ji) (hangeul 지, revised ji, McCune–Reischauer chi, Yale ci)

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Vietnamese

Han character

趾: Hán Nôm readings: chỉ, nhảy

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