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治

治

治 U+6CBB, 治
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6CBB
← 沺
[U+6CBA] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 沼 →
[U+6CBC]

Translingual

Han character

治 (radical 85 水+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 水戈口 (EIR), four-corner 33160, composition ⿰氵台)

References

  • KangXi: page 614, character 7
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17256
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1007, character 11
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1599, character 6
  • Unihan data for U+6CBB

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 治

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (台) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
胎 *l̥ʰɯː
台 *l̥ʰɯː, *l'ɯː, *l'ɯː, *lɯ
邰 *l̥ʰɯː
鮐 *l̥ʰɯː, *lɯ
孡 *l̥ʰɯː
苔 *l'ɯː
抬 *l'ɯː
駘 *l'ɯː, *l'ɯːʔ
炱 *l'ɯː
菭 *l'ɯː, *l'i
跆 *l'ɯː
殆 *l'ɯːʔ
怠 *l'ɯːʔ
迨 *l'ɯːʔ
紿 *l'ɯːʔ
詒 *l'ɯːʔ, *lɯ
軩 *l'ɯːʔ
咍 *hlɯː
佁 *lɯːʔ, *l̥ʰɯs, *lɯʔ
枲 *slɯʔ
辝 *ljɯ
鈶 *ljɯʔ
笞 *l̥ʰɯ
齝 *l̥ʰɯ, *hljɯ
眙 *l̥ʰɯs, *lɯ
治 *l'ɯ, *l'ɯs, *l'is
始 *hljɯʔ
怡 *lɯ
貽 *lɯ
飴 *lɯ
瓵 *lɯ
珆 *li

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *l'ɯ, *l'ɯs, *l'is) : semantic 氵 + phonetic 台 ‎(OC *l̥ʰɯː, *l'ɯː, *l'ɯː, *lɯ).

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 治
Mandarin Beijing /ʈ͡ʂʐ̩⁵¹/
Harbin /ʈ͡ʂʐ̩⁵³/
Tianjin /ʈ͡ʂʐ̩⁵³/
Jinan /ʈ͡ʂʐ̩²¹/
Qingdao /tʃz̩⁴²/
Zhengzhou /ʈ͡ʂʐ̩³¹²/
Xi'an /ʈ͡ʂʐ̩⁴⁴/
Xining /ʈ͡ʂʐ̩²¹³/
Yinchuan /ʈ͡ʂʐ̩¹³/
Lanzhou /ʈ͡ʂʐ̩¹³/
Ürümqi /ʈ͡ʂʐ̩²¹³/
Wuhan /t͡sz̩³⁵/
Chengdu /t͡sz̩¹³/
Guiyang /t͡sz̩²¹³/
Kunming /ʈ͡ʂʐ̩²¹²/
Nanjing /ʈ͡ʂʐ̩⁴⁴/
Hefei /ʈ͡ʂʐ̩⁵³/
Jin Taiyuan /t͡sz̩⁴⁵/
Pingyao /ʈ͡ʂʐ̩³⁵/
Hohhot /t͡sz̩⁵⁵/
Wu Shanghai /zz̩²³/
Suzhou /zz̩ʷ³¹/
Hangzhou /d͡zz̩¹³/
Wenzhou /d͡zz̩²²/
Hui Shexian /t͡ɕʰi²²/
Tunxi /t͡ɕi²⁴/
Xiang Changsha /ʈ͡ʂʐ̩⁵⁵/
Xiangtan /ʈ͡ʂʐ̩⁵⁵/
Gan Nanchang /t͡sʰz̩²¹/
Hakka Meixian /t͡sʰz̩⁵³/
Taoyuan /tʃʰï⁵⁵/
Cantonese Guangzhou /t͡si²²/
Nanning /t͡si²²/
Hong Kong /t͡si²²/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /ti²²/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /tɛi²⁴²/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /ti³³/
/ti⁴²/
Shantou (Min Nan) /ti³¹/
Haikou (Min Nan) /t͡si³³/
Rime
Character 治 治 治
Reading # 1/3 2/3 3/3
Initial (聲) 澄 (11) 澄 (11) 澄 (11)
Final (韻) 之 (19) 脂 (17) 之 (19)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Departing (H) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open Open Open
Division (等) III Chongniu III III
Fanqie 直之切 直利切 直吏切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ɖɨ/ /ɖˠiɪH/ /ɖɨH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ɖɨ/ /ɖᵚiH/ /ɖɨH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ȡie/ /ȡiɪH/ /ȡieH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ɖɨ/ /ɖjiH/ /ɖɨH/
Li
Rong		 /ȡiə/ /ȡjiH/ /ȡiəH/
Wang
Li		 /ȡĭə/ /ȡiH/ /ȡĭəH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ȡʱi/ /ȡʱiH/ /ȡʱiH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 chí zhì zhì
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 治 治
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 chí zhì
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ dri › ‹ driH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*C.lrə/ /*lrə-s/
English regulate, arrange regulate, arrange

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 治 治 治
Reading # 1/3 2/3 3/3
No. 12288 12289 12302
Phonetic
component		 台 台 台
Rime
group		 之 之 脂
Rime
subdivision		 0 0 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 治 值 緻
Old
Chinese		 /*l'ɯ/ /*l'ɯs/ /*l'is/

Definitions

治

  1. to govern; to regulate; to administer

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

治

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. govern, regulate, administer

Readings

Compounds

Proper noun

治 ‎(hiragana おさむ, romaji Osamu)

  1. A male given name

Korean

Hanja

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

  1. to govern; to manage

Vietnamese

Han character

治 (trị, chệ, trịa, trì, dức)

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