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佐

佐

佐 U+4F50, 佐
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-4F50
← 住
[U+4F4F] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 佑 →
[U+4F51]

Translingual

Han character

佐 (radical 9 人+5, 7 strokes, cangjie input 人大一 (OKM), four-corner 24211, composition ⿰亻左)

  1. assist, aid, second
  2. subordinate

References

  • KangXi: page 98, character 10
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 506
  • Dae Jaweon: page 207, character 3
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 130, character 6
  • Unihan data for U+4F50

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 佐

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 佐
Large seal script

L36863

L23690

L23691

L23692

L23693

L23694

L23695

L23696
References:

Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation),
which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including:

  • Shuowen Jiezi (small seal),
  • Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions),
  • Liushutong (large seal) and
  • Xu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).
Characters in the same phonetic series (左) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
左 *ʔsaːlʔ, *ʔsaːls
佐 *ʔsaːls
袏 *ʔslaːls
蹉 *sʰlaːl
瑳 *sʰlaːl, *sʰlaːlʔ
搓 *sʰlaːl
磋 *sʰlaːl
溠 *sʰlaːl, *sraːl, *ʔsraːls
傞 *sʰlaːl, *slaːl
醝 *zlaːl
瘥 *zlaːl, *ʔsljal, *sʰreːls
鹺 *zlaːl
嵯 *zlaːl, *sʰral
嵳 *zlaːl
蒫 *zlaːl, *ʔsljal, *ʔslɯl
艖 *zlaːl, *sʰraːl
齹 *zlaːl, *sʰral, *zral
縒 *slaːlʔ, *sʰral, *sʰlaːɡ
褨 *slaːlʔ
嗟 *ʔsljal
差 *sʰraːl, *sʰraːls, *sʰreːl, *sʰreːl, *sʰreːls, *sʰral
鎈 *sʰraːl
槎 *zraːl, *zraːlʔ
髊 *zlals

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 佐
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 精 (13)
Final (韻) 歌 (94)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 則箇切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /t͡sɑH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /t͡sɑH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /t͡sɑH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /t͡saH/
Li
Rong		 /t͡sɑH/
Wang
Li		 /t͡sɑH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /t͡sɑH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 zuò
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 佐
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 zuǒ
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ tsaH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*tsˤarʔ-s/ (dialect: *-r > *-j)
English aid, assist

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] 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 佐
Reading # 1/1
No. 18005
Phonetic
component		 左
Rime
group		 歌
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 佐
Old
Chinese		 /*ʔsaːls/

Definitions

佐

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Japanese

Kanji

佐

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. aid
  2. help

Readings

Korean

Hanja

佐 • ‎(jwa) (hangeul 좌, revised jwa, McCune-Reischauer chwa)

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Vietnamese

Han character

佐 (tá, tớ, huy)

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References

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