滋

滋

滋 U+6ECB, 滋 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6ECB ← 滊 [U+6ECA] CJK Unified Ideographs 滌 → [U+6ECC]

滋 U+FA99, 滋 CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-FA99 ← 滛 [U+FA98] CJK Compatibility Ideographs 漢 → [U+FA9A]

滋 U+2F90B, 滋 CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-2F90B ← 㴳 [U+2F90A] CJK Compatibility Ideographs Supplement 滇 → [U+2F90C]

Translingual

Han character

• U+6ECB 滋 (radical 85, 水+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 水廿女戈 (ETVI), four-corner 3813₂, composition ⿰氵兹)

• U+FA99 滋 (radical 85, 水+10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 水卜戈戈 (EYII), composition ⿰氵玆)

Derived characters

• 𬵱 (Contains ⿰氵玆 (U+FA99))

References

• KangXi: page 642, character 15
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17919
• Dae Jaweon: page 1049, character 19
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1686, character 6
• Unihan data for U+6ECB

• Unihan data for U+FA99

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		滋

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (兹) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
糍	*zi
茲	*ʔsɯ, *zɯ
滋	*ʔsɯ
孳	*ʔsɯ, *zɯs
嵫	*ʔsɯ
嗞	*ʔsɯ
鎡	*ʔsɯ
鰦	*ʔsɯ
鶿	*ʔsɯ, *zɯ
稵	*ʔsɯ, *ʔsɯw
螆	*sʰɯs
慈	*zɯ
鷀	*zɯ
磁	*zɯ
礠	*zlɯ
濨	*zlɯ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ʔsɯ) : semantic 水 + phonetic 玆.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zī (zi¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄗ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zi¹
• Min Nan (POJ): chir / 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: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chir
    • Tâi-lô: tsir
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sɯ³³/
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chu
    • Tâi-lô: tsu
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zw
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung, Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /t͡su⁴⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: /t͡sɨ/▼

Rime
Character	滋
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▼

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[ts]ə/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ʔsɯ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	滋
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	zī
Middle Chinese	‹ tsi ›
Old Chinese	/*[ts]ə/
English	abundant
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	滋
Reading #	1/1
No.	17836
Phonetic component	兹
Rime group	之
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	兹
Old Chinese	/*ʔsɯ/

Definitions

滋

1. to grow; to multiply
2. to cause
3. to increase
4. taste
5. (colloquial) to spurt

Compounds

不是滋味 個中滋味／个中滋味 愛滋病／爱滋病 (àizībìng) 日滋月益 日益月滋 暴力滋擾／暴力滋扰 松滋 (Sōngzī) 樂滋滋／乐滋滋 樹德務滋／树德务滋 殊滋異味／殊滋异味

滋事 (zīshì) 滋味 (zīwèi) 滋味兒／滋味儿 (zīwèir) 滋擾／滋扰 (zīrǎo) 滋潤／滋润 (zīrùn) 滋生 (zīshēng) 滋育 滋芽 滋蔓 (zīmàn) 滋蔓難圖／滋蔓难图

滋補／滋补 (zībǔ) 滋長／滋长 (zīzhǎng) 滋養／滋养 (zīyǎng) 滋養品／滋养品 甘露滋心 聚眾滋事／聚众滋事 華爾滋／华尔滋 蕃滋 飛滋／飞滋

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Japanese

Kanji

滋

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: し (shi)
• Kan-on: し (shi)
• Kan’yō-on: じ (ji, Jōyō)
• Kun: しげる (shigeru, 滋る); ます (masu, 滋す); ますます (masumasu)

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Korean

Hanja

滋 • (ja) (hangeul 자, revised ja, McCune–Reischauer cha, Yale ca)

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Vietnamese

Han character

滋 (tư)

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