佽

佽	U+4F7D, 佽 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-4F7D

← 佼
[U+4F7C]

CJK Unified Ideographs

佾 →
[U+4F7E]

Translingual

Han character

佽 (radical 9, 人+6, 8 strokes, cangjie input 人戈一人 (OIMO) or 人一一人 (OMMO), four-corner 7728₂, composition ⿰亻次)

aid
help
to help
to sponsor, subsidize
a surname

References

KangXi: page 101, character 2

Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 571

Dae Jaweon: page 213, character 10

Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 152, character 7

Unihan data for U+4F7D

Chinese

simp. and trad.		佽

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 佽

Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)

Liushutong (compiled in Ming)

Small seal script

Transcribed ancient scripts

**Small seal script**
s05763

**Transcribed ancient scripts**
L35746

References:

Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation),
which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including:

Shuowen Jiezi (small seal),
Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions),
Liushutong (Liushutong characters) and
Yinxu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone 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

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): cì (ci⁴)
(Zhuyin): ㄘˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): ci³

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: cì
  - Zhuyin: ㄘˋ
  - Wade–Giles: tz'u⁴
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tsyh
  - IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰz̩⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: ci³
  - Yale: chi
  - Cantonese Pinyin: tsi³
  - Guangdong Romanization: qi³
  - IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰiː³³/

Middle Chinese: /t͡sʰiɪ^H/▼

Rime
Character	佽
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	清 (14)
Final (韻)	脂 (15)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	七四切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡sʰiɪ^H/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡sʰi^H/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡sʰjɪ^H/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/t͡sʰi^H/
Li Rong	/t͡sʰi^H/
Wang Li	/t͡sʰi^H/
Bernard Karlgren	/t͡sʰi^H/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	cì

Old Chinese▼
(Zhengzhang): /*sl̥ʰis/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	佽
Reading #	1/1
No.	1795
Phonetic component	次
Rime group	脂
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	次
Old Chinese	/*sl̥ʰis/

Definitions

佽

(literary) to help

Compounds

佽飛／佽飞

References

Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), B00050

Japanese

Kanji

佽

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

On (unclassified): し (shi)

Kun: すぼしこい (suboshikoi), ならぶ (narabu), たすける (tasukeru), および (oyobi), かはるがはる (kaharugaharu)

Korean

Hanja

佽 • (cha) (hangeul 차, revised cha, McCune–Reischauer ch'a)

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