孜

孜

孜 U+5B5C, 孜 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5B5C ← 孛 [U+5B5B] CJK Unified Ideographs 孝 → [U+5B5D]

Translingual

Han character

孜 (radical 39, 子+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 弓木人大 (NDOK), four-corner 1844₀, composition ⿰子攵)

1. be as diligent as possible
2. hard-working, industrious

References

• KangXi: page 278, character 10
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6951
• Dae Jaweon: page 546, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1012, character 2
• Unihan data for U+5B5C

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		孜

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (子) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
孜	*ʔslɯ
仔	*ʔslɯ, *ʔslɯʔ
孖	*ʔslɯ, *zlɯs
子	*ʔslɯʔ
虸	*ʔslɯʔ
耔	*ʔslɯʔ
秄	*ʔslɯʔ
杍	*ʔslɯʔ
籽	*ʔslɯʔ
字	*zlɯs
茡	*zlɯs
芓	*zlɯs
牸	*zlɯs
李	*rɯʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ʔslɯ) : phonetic 子 (OC *ʔslɯʔ) + semantic 攵 (“action”)

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zī (zi¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄗ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zi¹
• Min Nan (POJ): chû / chu

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: zī
    • Zhuyin: ㄗ
    • Wade–Giles: tzu¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tzy
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡sz̩⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: zi¹
    • Yale: jī
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzi¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: ji¹
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡siː⁵⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chû / chu
    • Tâi-lô: tsû / tsu
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zuu, zw
    • IPA (Xiamen): /t͡su²⁴/, /t͡su⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡su²⁴/, /t͡su³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡su¹³/, /t͡su⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡su²⁴/, /t͡su⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡su²³/, /t͡su⁴⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: /t͡sɨ/▼

Rime
Character	孜
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	精 (13)
Final (韻)	之 (19)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	子之切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡sɨ/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡sɨ/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡sie/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/t͡sɨ/
Li Rong	/t͡siə/
Wang Li	/t͡sĭə/
Bernard Karlgren	/t͡si/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zī

• Old Chinese▼

  (Zhengzhang): /*ʔslɯ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	孜
Reading #	1/1
No.	17854
Phonetic component	子
Rime group	之
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	兹
Old Chinese	/*ʔslɯ/

Definitions

孜

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Compounds

喜孜孜 孜孜 (zīzī) 孜孜不倦 (zīzībùjuàn) 孜孜不怠 孜孜矻矻

孜煎 念孜孜 意孜孜 拉孜縣／拉孜县

江孜 (Jiāngzī) 甘孜 (Gānzī) 甘孜藏族自治州 (Gānzī Zàngzú Zìzhìzhōu) 苦孜孜

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Japanese

Kanji

孜

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): し (shi)
• Kun: つとめる (tsutomeru)

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Korean

Hanja

孜 (eum 자 (ja))

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Vietnamese

Han character

孜: Hán Nôm readings: tư

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References

• Nom Foundation