弛

弛	U+5F1B, 弛 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5F1B

← 弚
[U+5F1A]

CJK Unified Ideographs

弜 →
[U+5F1C]

Translingual

Han character

弛 (radical 57, 弓+3, 6 strokes, cangjie input 弓心木 (NPD), four-corner 1421₂, composition ⿰弓也)

loosen
relax
unstring a bow

References

KangXi: page 357, character 6

Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 9724

Dae Jaweon: page 673, character 14

Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 991, character 13

Unihan data for U+5F1B

Chinese

simp. and trad.		弛

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 弛
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Characters in the same phonetic series (也) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
他	*l̥ʰaːl
拖	l̥ʰaːl, l̥ʰaːls
駞	*l'aːl
池	l'aːl, l'al
灺	*ljalʔ
鍦	ɦljaːl, hljal, *hljals
虵	ɦljal, laːlʔ, *lal
也	*laːlʔ
忚	*hleːl
髢	*l'eːls
杝	l̥ʰalʔ, l'alʔ, *lal
肔	l̥ʰalʔ, lalʔ
馳	*l'al
阤	l'alʔ, hljalʔ
施	hljal, hljals
絁	*hljal
葹	*hljal
弛	*hljalʔ
箷	*lal
衪	lel, lalʔ
暆	*lel
迆	lal, lalʔ
酏	lal, lalʔ
匜	lal, lalʔ
迤	*lalʔ
扡	*lalʔ
崺	*lalʔ
貤	lals, ɦljels, *lels
地	*l'els

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): chí (chi²)
(Zhuyin): ㄔˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): ci², ci⁴
Min Nan (POJ): sí / tî

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: chí
  - Zhuyin: ㄔˊ
  - Wade–Giles: ch'ih²
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chy
  - IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰʐ̩³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: ci², ci⁴
  - Yale: chí, chìh
  - Cantonese Pinyin: tsi², tsi⁴
  - Guangdong Romanization: qi², qi⁴
  - IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰiː³⁵/, /t͡sʰiː²¹/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien: General Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sí
  - Tâi-lô: sí
  - Phofsit Daibuun: sie
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /ɕi⁴¹/
  - IPA (Taipei, Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /ɕi⁵³/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tî
  - Tâi-lô: tî
  - Phofsit Daibuun: dii
  - IPA (Quanzhou, Xiamen): /ti²⁴/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /ti¹³/

Note:

sí - literary (Xiamen, Zhangzhou);
tî - vernacular (俗) (Xiamen, Zhangzhou).

Middle Chinese: /ɕiᴇ^X/▼

Rime
Character	弛
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	書 (26)
Final (韻)	支 (11)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	施是切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɕiᴇ^X/
Pan Wuyun	/ɕiɛ^X/
Shao Rongfen	/ɕjɛ^X/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɕiə̆^X/
Li Rong	/ɕie^X/
Wang Li	/ɕǐe^X/
Bernard Karlgren	/ɕie̯^X/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	shǐ

Old Chinese▼
(Baxter–Sagart): /*l̥ajʔ/
(Zhengzhang): /*hljalʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	弛
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	chí
Middle Chinese	‹ sye^X ›
Old Chinese	/*l̥ajʔ/
English	slacken (a bow)
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	弛
Reading #	1/1
No.	14787
Phonetic component	也
Rime group	歌
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	弛
Old Chinese	/*hljalʔ/

Definitions

弛

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Compounds

一弛一張／一弛一张
一張一弛／一张一弛
厥弛
外弛內張／外弛内张
廢弛／废弛
弛廢／弛废

弛張／弛张
弛禁
弛緩／弛缓
張弛／张弛
懈弛
放蕩弛縱／放荡弛纵

澆弛／浇弛
簡弛／简弛
綱紀廢弛／纲纪废弛
色衰愛弛／色衰爱弛
跅弛
鬆弛／松弛 (sōngchí)

Japanese

Kanji

弛

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings

Go-on: し (shi)

Kan-on: し (shi)

Kan’yō-on: ち (chi)

Kun: たるむ (tarumu, 弛む); たるめる (tarumeru, 弛める); たゆむ (tayumu, 弛む); ゆるむ (yurumu, 弛む)

Korean

Hanja

弛 • (i, chi) (hangeul 이, 치, revised i, chi, McCune–Reischauer i, ch'i, Yale i, chi)

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Vietnamese

Han character

弛 (thỉ)

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