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Translingual

Han character

(radical 72 +8, 12 strokes, cangjie input 人口日 (ORA), four-corner 86600, composition)

References

  • KangXi: page 497, character 15
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14010
  • Dae Jaweon: page 863, character 23
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1518, character 15
  • Unihan data for U+667A

Chinese

simp. and trad.
alt. forms
𥏼

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*l'eds
*l'eds, *ɢʷleds, *ɢʷled
*l̥ʰiːs, *ljiʔ, *l'
*ʔl'e
*te
*ʔl'es
*te
*teɡs, *deɡ
*de
*l'
*hliʔ
*l̥ʰɯ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ʔl'es) : phonetic  (OC *ʔl'e) + semantic .

Etymology

Exopassive of (OC *ʔl'e, “to know”), literally “what is known > knowledge”.

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (9)
Final () (13)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () Chongniu III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ʈˠiᴇH/
Pan
Wuyun
/ʈᵚiɛH/
Shao
Rongfen
/ȶiɛH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ʈjiə̆H/
Li
Rong
/ȶjeH/
Wang
Li
/ȶǐeH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ȶie̯H/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
zhì
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
zhì
Middle
Chinese
‹ trjeH ›
Old
Chinese
/*tre-s/
English knowledge

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
Reading # 1/1
No. 11497
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ʔl'es/

Definitions

  1. wisdom; knowledge; intelligence
       zhìhuì   wisdom
       zhì   intelligence
  2. wise; informed; intelligent; astute
  3. A surname.

Compounds


Japanese

Kanji

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings

Compounds

Proper noun

(hiragana さとし, romaji Satoshi)

  1. A male given name

Korean

Hanja

(ji) (hangeul , revised ji, McCune-Reischauer chi, Yale ci)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(trí)

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