戠

戠

戠 U+6220, 戠 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6220 ← 戟 [U+621F] CJK Unified Ideographs 戡 → [U+6221]

Translingual

Han character

戠 (radical 62, 戈+9, 13 strokes, cangjie input 卜日戈 (YAI), four-corner 0365₀, composition ⿰音戈)

1. yellow clay

Descendants

• 熾, 識, 樴, 幟, 職, 織

References

• KangXi: page 413, character 16
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11615
• Dae Jaweon: page 756, character 10
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1409, character 4
• Unihan data for U+6220

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		戠

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 戠
Shang	Western Zhou	Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Chu Slip and silk script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Characters in the same phonetic series (戠) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
識	*tjɯɡs, *hljɯɡ
幟	*tjɯɡs, *tʰjɯɡs, *hljɯɡs
織	*tjɯɡs, *tjɯɡ
熾	*tʰjɯɡs
樴	*dɯːɡ, *tjɯɡ
職	*tjɯɡ
軄	*tjɯɡ
戠	*tjɯɡ
膱	*tjɯɡ
蟙	*tjɯɡ

Ideogrammic compound (會意) : 音 + 戈.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zhī (zhi¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄓ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zik¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: zhī
    • Zhuyin: ㄓ
    • Wade–Giles: chih¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jy
    • IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʐ̩⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: zik¹
    • Yale: jīk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzik⁷
    • Guangdong Romanization: jig¹
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡sɪk̚⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: /t͡ɕɨk̚/▼

Rime
Character	戠
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	章 (23)
Final (韻)	職 (134)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	之翼切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡ɕɨk̚/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡ɕɨk̚/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡ɕiek̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/cik̚/
Li Rong	/t͡ɕiək̚/
Wang Li	/t͡ɕĭək̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/t͡ɕi̯ək̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zhi

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*tək/

  (Zhengzhang): /*tjɯɡ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	戠
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	shì
Middle Chinese	‹ tsyik ›
Old Chinese	/*tək/
English	adhere (?)
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	戠
Reading #	1/1
No.	17254
Phonetic component	戠
Rime group	職
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	職
Old Chinese	/*tjɯɡ/
Notes	甲金文象以刻刀辛在戈上刻標記， 爲識初文，用張雪明1979說

Definitions

戠

1. a sword
2. potter’s clay
3. to gather
4. old alternate of 埴

References

• (Cantonese) Jyutping Database (iso10646hk.net) - Cantonese Pronunciation List (Part 2), p. 111

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Japanese

Kanji

戠

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. sword
2. potter's clay
3. to gather

Readings

• Go-on: しき (shiki), し (shi)
• Kan-on: しょく (shoku), し (shi)

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Korean

Hanja

戠 • (si) (hangeul 시, revised si, McCune–Reischauer si, Yale si)

1. clay