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姿
姿
Translingual
Han character
姿 (radical 38 女+6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 戈人女 (IOV) or 一人女 (MOV), four-corner 37404, composition ⿱次女)
Related characters
References
- KangXi: page 261, character 22
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6257
- Dae Jaweon: page 527, character 25
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1047, character 6
- Unihan data for U+59FF
Chinese
| simp. and trad. | 姿 | |
|---|---|---|
Glyph origin
| Historical forms of the character 姿 | 
|---|
| Small seal script | 
|  | 
| 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, OC *ʔsli) : phonetic 次 (OC *sn̥ʰis) + semantic 女 (“woman”) – a woman’s manner, carriage, bearing.
Pronunciation
-  Mandarin
-  (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄗ
- Wade-Giles: tzu1
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tzy
- IPA (key): /t͡sz̩⁵⁵/
 
 
-  (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
-  Cantonese
-  (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+- Jyutping: zi1
- Yale: jī
- Cantonese Pinyin: dzi1
- IPA (key): /t͡siː⁵⁵/
 
 
-  (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Min Nan
| Rime | |
|---|---|
| Character | 姿 | 
| 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 | 
| Reconstructions | |
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /t͡siɪ/ | 
| Pan Wuyun | /t͡si/ | 
| Shao Rongfen | /t͡sjɪ/ | 
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /t͡si/ | 
| Li Rong | /t͡si/ | 
| Wang Li | /t͡si/ | 
| Bernard Karlgren | /t͡si/ | 
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | zī | 
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 姿 | 
| Reading # | 1/1 | 
| No. | 1787 | 
| Phonetic component | 次 | 
| Rime group | 脂 | 
| Rime subdivision | 2 | 
| Corresponding MC rime | 咨 | 
| Old Chinese | /*ʔsli/ | 
Definitions
姿
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Compounds
Japanese
Kanji
姿
- figure
Readings
Noun
姿 (hiragana すがた, romaji sugata)
- figure, appearance, form, aspect, shape
Korean
Hanja
姿 • (ja) (hangeul 자, revised ja, McCune-Reischauer cha)
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Vietnamese
Han character
姿 (tư)
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