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弛

弛

Translingual

Han character

弛 (radical 57 弓+3, 6 strokes, cangjie input 弓心木 (NPD), four-corner 14212, composition ⿰弓也)

  1. loosen
  2. relax
  3. unstring a bow

References

  • KangXi: page 357, character 6
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 9724
  • Dae Jaweon: page 673, character 14
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 991, character 13
  • Unihan data for U+5F1B

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 弛

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 弛
Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (也) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
他 *l̥ʰaːl
拖 *l̥ʰaːl, *l̥ʰaːls
駞 *l'aːl
池 *l'aːl, *l'al
灺 *ljalʔ
鍦 *ɦljaːl, *hljal, *hljals
虵 *ɦljal, *laːlʔ, *lal
也 *laːlʔ
忚 *hleːl
髢 *l'eːls
杝 *l̥ʰalʔ, *l'alʔ, *lal
肔 *l̥ʰalʔ, *lalʔ
馳 *l'al
阤 *l'alʔ, *hljalʔ
施 *hljal, *hljals
絁 *hljal
葹 *hljal
弛 *hljalʔ
箷 *lal
衪 *lel, *lalʔ
暆 *lel
迆 *lal, *lalʔ
酏 *lal, *lalʔ
匜 *lal, *lalʔ
迤 *lalʔ
扡 *lalʔ
崺 *lalʔ
貤 *lals, *ɦljels, *lels
地 *l'els

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 弛
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 書 (26)
Final (韻) 支 (11)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 施是切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ɕiᴇX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ɕiɛX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ɕjɛX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ɕiə̆X/
Li
Rong		 /ɕieX/
Wang
Li		 /ɕǐeX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ɕie̯X/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 shǐ
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 弛
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 chí
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ syeX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*l̥ajʔ/
English slacken (a bow)

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 弛
Reading # 1/1
No. 14787
Phonetic
component		 也
Rime
group		 歌
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 弛
Old
Chinese		 /*hljalʔ/

Definitions

弛

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Compounds

  • 一弛一張／一弛一张
  • 一張一弛／一张一弛
  • 厥弛
  • 外弛內張／外弛内张
  • 廢弛／废弛
  • 弛廢／弛废
  • 弛張／弛张
  • 弛禁
  • 弛緩／弛缓
  • 張弛／张弛
  • 懈弛
  • 放蕩弛縱／放荡弛纵
  • 澆弛／浇弛
  • 簡弛／简弛
  • 綱紀廢弛／纲纪废弛
  • 色衰愛弛／色衰爱弛
  • 跅弛
  • 鬆弛／松弛

Japanese

Kanji

弛

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

弛 • ‎(i, chi) (hangeul 이, 치, revised i, chi, McCune-Reischauer i, ch'i, Yale i, chi)

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Vietnamese

Han character

弛 (thỉ)

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