瓷

See also: 甆

瓷	U+74F7, 瓷 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-74F7

← 瓶
[U+74F6]

CJK Unified Ideographs

瓸 →
[U+74F8]

Translingual

Han character

瓷 (radical 98, 瓦+6, 10 strokes, cangjie input 戈人一女弓 (IOMVN) or 一人一女弓 (MOMVN), four-corner 3771₇, composition ⿱次瓦)

References

KangXi: page 749, character 7

Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 21491

Dae Jaweon: page 1157, character 30

Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1424, character 22

Unihan data for U+74F7

Chinese

simp. and trad.		瓷
variant forms		甆

Glyph origin

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

Characters in the same phonetic series (次) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
咨	*ʔsli
資	*ʔsli
姿	*ʔsli
粢	*ʔsli
諮	*ʔsli
恣	*ʔslis
澬	ʔsli, zli
趑	*sʰli
蠀	*sʰli
次	*sn̥ʰis
佽	*sl̥ʰis
絘	*sl̥ʰis
薋	*zli
瓷	*zli
茨	*zli
餈	*zli
垐	zli, zlɯɡ
楶	*ʔsliːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *zli) : phonetic 次 (OC *sn̥ʰis) + semantic 瓦 (“earthenware”).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): cí (ci²)
(Zhuyin): ㄘˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): ci⁴
Hakka (Sixian, PFS): chhṳ̀
Min Dong (BUC): cṳ̀
Min Nan
(Hokkien, POJ): chû / chîr / hûi
(Teochew, Peng'im): ce⁵ / cu⁵
Wu (Wiktionary): zr (T3)

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: cí
  - Zhuyin: ㄘˊ
  - Wade–Giles: tz'u²
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tsy
  - IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰz̩³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: ci⁴
  - Yale: chìh
  - Cantonese Pinyin: tsi⁴
  - Guangdong Romanization: qi⁴
  - IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰiː²¹/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chhṳ̀
  - Hakka Romanization System: ciiˇ
  - Hagfa Pinyim: ci²
  - IPA: /t͡sʰɨ¹¹/
Min Dong
- (Fuzhou)
  - Bàng-uâ-cê: cṳ̀
  - IPA ^(key): /t͡sy⁵³/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chû
  - Tâi-lô: tsû
  - Phofsit Daibuun: zuu
  - IPA (Xiamen, Taipei): /t͡su²⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡su²³/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡su¹³/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chîr
  - Tâi-lô: tsîr
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sɯ²⁴/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hûi
  - Tâi-lô: huî
  - Phofsit Daibuun: huii
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /hui¹³/
  - IPA (Xiamen, Quanzhou, Taipei): /hui²⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /hui²³/

Note:

chû/chîr - literary;
hûi - vernacular.

- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: ce⁵ / cu⁵
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tshṳ̂ / tshû
  - IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰɯ⁵⁵/, /t͡sʰu⁵⁵/
Wu
- (Shanghainese)
  - Wiktionary: zr (T3)
  - IPA ^(key): /z̻z̩²³/

Middle Chinese: /d͡ziɪ/▼

Rime
Character	瓷
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	從 (15)
Final (韻)	脂 (15)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	疾資切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/d͡ziɪ/
Pan Wuyun	/d͡zi/
Shao Rongfen	/d͡zjɪ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/d͡zi/
Li Rong	/d͡zi/
Wang Li	/d͡zi/
Bernard Karlgren	/d͡zʱi/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	cí

Old Chinese▼
(Zhengzhang): /*zli/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	瓷
Reading #	1/1
No.	1799
Phonetic component	次
Rime group	脂
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	茨
Old Chinese	/*zli/
Notes	見漢賦

Definitions

瓷

porcelain, chinaware

Compounds

古瓷
單色瓷／单色瓷
宋瓷
定瓷
宜興瓷／宜兴瓷
嵌瓷畫／嵌瓷画
搪瓷 (tángcí)
洋瓷
瓷刻
瓷器 (cíqì)
瓷土 (cítǔ)

瓷婚
瓷實／瓷实
瓷漆
瓷瓦兒／瓷瓦儿
瓷磚／瓷砖 (cízhuān)
瓷窯／瓷窑
瓷胎
瓷飯碗／瓷饭碗
白瓷
真瓷

碎瓷
精密陶瓷
繃瓷／绷瓷
金屬陶瓷／金属陶瓷
鈞瓷／钧瓷
陶瓷 (táocí)
陶瓷器 (táocíqì)
陶瓷工 (táocígōng)
陶瓷材料
青瓷 (qīngcí)

Japanese

Kanji

瓷

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

On (unclassified): し (shi), じ (ji)

Kun: かめ (kame)

Korean

Hanja

瓷 • (ja) (hangeul 자)

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Vietnamese

Han character

瓷 (từ, sứ, tư)

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Readings

Nôm: từ

References

Thiều Chửu : Hán Việt Tự Điển Hà Nội 1942
Trần Văn Chánh: Từ Điển Hán Việt NXB Trẻ, Ho Chi Minh Ville, 1999