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肢

肢

Translingual

Han character

肢 (radical 130 肉+4, 8 strokes, cangjie input 月十水 (BJE), four-corner 74247, composition ⿰月支)

  1. human limbs
  2. animal feet

References

  • KangXi: page 974, character 18
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 29285
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1426, character 8
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2047, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+80A2

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 肢

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 肢
Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (支) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
支 *kje
枝 *kje
肢 *kje
汥 *kje, *ɡe, *ɡres
衼 *kje
馶 *kje, *qʰjes, *kes, *ɡe
鳷 *kje
忮 *kjes
伎 *kjes, *ɡe, *ɡreʔ
豉 *ɡjes
翅 *qʰjes
翄 *qʰjes, *ɡe
妓 *kre, *ɡreʔ
庋 *kreʔ, *kʷreʔ
跂 *kʰeʔ, *kʰes, *ɡe
蚑 *kʰes, *ɡe
吱 *kʰes
岐 *ɡe
歧 *ɡe
鬾 *ɡre, *ɡres
技 *ɡreʔ
芰 *ɡres
攱 *kʷreʔ, *kʷres
庪 *kʷreʔ
頍 *kʰʷeʔ
屐 *ɡreɡ

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 肢
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 章 (23)
Final (韻) 支 (11)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 章移切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /t͡ɕiᴇ/
Pan
Wuyun		 /t͡ɕiɛ/
Shao
Rongfen		 /t͡ɕjɛ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ciə̆/
Li
Rong		 /t͡ɕie/
Wang
Li		 /t͡ɕǐe/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /t͡ɕie̯/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 zhī
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 肢
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 zhī
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ tsye ›
Old
Chinese		 /*ke/
English limb

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 肢
Reading # 1/1
No. 17202
Phonetic
component		 支
Rime
group		 支
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 支
Old
Chinese		 /*kje/

Definitions

肢

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Compounds

  • 胳肢
  • 胳肢窩／胳肢窝
  • 腰肢
  • 膈肢
  • 膈肢窩／膈肢窝
  • 隔肢
  • 青蛙肢

Japanese

Kanji

肢

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

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

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