咫

咫	U+54AB, 咫 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-54AB

← 咪
[U+54AA]

CJK Unified Ideographs

咬 →
[U+54AC]

Translingual

Han character

咫 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 尸人口金 (SORC), four-corner 7680₈, composition ⿺尺只)

References

KangXi: page 186, character 15
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3542
Dae Jaweon: page 405, character 36
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 624, character 1
Unihan data for U+54AB

Chinese

trad.		咫
simp. ^#		咫
alternative forms		𣥉𦐖 ⿰羽尺

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (只) (Zhengzhang, 2003)

	Old Chinese
只	klje, kljeʔ
胑	*klje
疻	klje, klji
軹	*kljeʔ
咫	*kljeʔ
枳	kljeʔ, kleʔ
抧	*kljeʔ
伿	kljes, les
齞	*ŋleːnʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *kljeʔ) : semantic 尺 (“ruler; measuring stick”) + phonetic 只 (OC *klje, *kljeʔ)

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): zhǐ (zhi³)
(Zhuyin): ㄓˇ
Cantonese (Jyutping): zi²
Min Nan (POJ): chí

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: zhǐ
  - Zhuyin: ㄓˇ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: jhǐh
  - Wade–Giles: chih³
  - Yale: jř
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jyy
  - Palladius: чжи (čži)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʐ̩²¹⁴/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: zi²
  - Yale: jí
  - Cantonese Pinyin: dzi²
  - Guangdong Romanization: ji²
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡siː³⁵/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou, General Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chí
  - Tâi-lô: tsí
  - Phofsit Daibuun: cie
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡ɕi⁵⁵⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡ɕi⁴¹/
  - IPA (Taipei, Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /t͡ɕi⁵³/

Middle Chinese: /t͡ɕiᴇ^X/

Rime
Character	咫
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	章 (23)
Final (韻)	支 (11)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	諸氏切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡ɕiᴇ^X/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡ɕiɛ^X/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡ɕjɛ^X/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ciə̆^X/
Li Rong	/t͡ɕie^X/
Wang Li	/t͡ɕǐe^X/
Bernard Karlgren	/t͡ɕie̯^X/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zhǐ
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zi²

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*keʔ/
(Zhengzhang): /*kljeʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	咫
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	zhǐ
Middle Chinese	‹ tsye^X ›
Old Chinese	/*keʔ/
English	foot (8 inches)
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	咫
Reading #	1/1
No.	17309
Phonetic component	只
Rime group	支
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	紙
Old Chinese	/*kljeʔ/

Definitions

咫

unit of measurement during the Zhou dynasty, equal to eight cun/tsun (寸)
- 楛矢貫之，石砮其長尺有咫。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
  楛矢贯之，石砮其长尺有咫。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]
  From: Guoyu, circa 4^th century BCE
  Hù shǐ guàn zhī, shí nú qí cháng chǐ yǒu zhǐ. [Pinyin]
  (please add an English translation of this example)
- 對曰：「天威不違顏咫尺，小白，余敢貪天子之命無下拜？ [Classical Chinese, trad.]
  对曰：“天威不违颜咫尺，小白，余敢贪天子之命无下拜？ [Classical Chinese, simp.]
  From: Commentary of Zuo, c. 4^th century BCE
  Duì yuē: “Tiānwēi bù wéi yán zhǐchǐ, xiǎobái, yú gǎn tān tiānzǐ zhī mìng wú xiàbài? [Pinyin]
  (please add an English translation of this example)
^† few; little
Synonym: 少 (shǎo)
- 王曰：「是知天咫，安知民則？是言誕也。」 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
  王曰：“是知天咫，安知民则？是言诞也。” [Classical Chinese, simp.]
  From: Guoyu, circa 4^th century BCE
  Wáng yuē: “Shì zhī tiān zhǐ, ān zhī mín zé? Shì yán dàn yě.” [Pinyin]
  (please add an English translation of this example)
^† short
Synonym: 短 (duǎn)
- 北首燕路，而後遣辯士奉咫尺之書，暴其所長於燕，燕必不敢不聽從。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
  北首燕路，而后遣辩士奉咫尺之书，暴其所长于燕，燕必不敢不听从。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]
  From: The Records of the Grand Historian, by Sima Qian, c. 91 BCE
  Běi shǒu yàn lù, ér hòu qiǎn biàn shì fèng zhǐchǐ zhī shū, bào qí suǒ cháng yú yàn, yàn bì bùgǎn bù tīngcóng. [Pinyin]
  (please add an English translation of this example)

Compounds

咫尺 (zhǐchǐ)
咫尺之地
咫尺天涯
咫尺山河

天涯咫尺
相去咫尺
近在咫尺 (jìnzàizhǐchǐ)
咫尺千里

咫尺萬里／咫尺万里
咫聞／咫闻
咫角驂駒／咫角骖驹

Japanese

Kanji

咫

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

roughly corresponds to the hand (traditional unit of length; in Japan, described as originally the distance from the tip of the thumb to the tip of the middle finger with the hand outstretched, often defined as eight 寸 (sun, “traditional inch”) or roughly 24cm)

Readings

Go-on: し (shi)
Kan-on: し (shi)
Kun: あた (ata, 咫); た (ta, 咫)

Compounds

咫(し)尺(せき) (shiseki)

Korean

Hanja

咫 (eum 지 (ji))

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Vietnamese

Han character

咫: Hán Việt readings: chỉ[1]
咫: Nôm readings: chỉ[1]

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References

Trần (2004).

[gdhn-1] Trần (2004).