祉

祉	U+7949, 祉 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7949

← 祈
[U+7948]

CJK Unified Ideographs

祊 →
[U+794A]

祉	U+FA4D, 祉 CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-FA4D

← 社
[U+FA4C]

CJK Compatibility Ideographs

祈 →
[U+FA4E]

Translingual

Han character

祉 (Kangxi radical 113, 示+4, 8 strokes, cangjie input 戈火卜中一 (IFYLM), four-corner 3121₀, composition ⿰礻止)

References

KangXi: page 840, character 10
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 24641
Dae Jaweon: page 1258, character 13
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2388, character 12
Unihan data for U+7949
Unihan data for U+FA4D

Chinese

simp. and trad.		祉

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 祉
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

Characters in the same phonetic series (止) (Zhengzhang, 2003)

	Old Chinese
祉	*kʰlɯʔ
址	*kjɯʔ
止	*kjɯʔ
趾	*kjɯʔ
芷	*kjɯʔ
沚	*kjɯʔ
阯	*kjɯʔ
齒	*kʰjɯʔ
紕	be, pʰi, *kʰjɯʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *kʰlɯʔ) : semantic 示 (“sign”) + phonetic 止 (OC *kjɯʔ).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): zhǐ (zhi³)
(Zhuyin): ㄓˇ
Cantonese (Jyutping): zi², ci²
Min Dong (BUC): cī
Min Nan (POJ): chí
Wu (Wiktionary): tshr (T2)

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: zhǐ
  - Zhuyin: ㄓˇ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: jhǐh
  - Wade–Giles: chih³
  - Yale: jř
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jyy
  - Palladius: чжи (čži)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʐ̩²¹⁴/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: zi², ci²
  - Yale: jí, chí
  - Cantonese Pinyin: dzi², tsi²
  - Guangdong Romanization: ji², qi²
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡siː³⁵/, /t͡sʰiː³⁵/
Min Dong
- (Fuzhou)
  - Bàng-uâ-cê: cī
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡si³³/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chí
  - Tâi-lô: tsí
  - Phofsit Daibuun: cie
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡ɕi⁵⁵⁴/
  - IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /t͡ɕi⁵³/
Wu
- (Shanghainese)
  - Wiktionary: tshr (T2)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰz̩³⁴/

Middle Chinese: /ʈʰɨ^X/

Rime
Character	祉
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	徹 (10)
Final (韻)	之 (19)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	敕里切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʈʰɨ^X/
Pan Wuyun	/ʈʰɨ^X/
Shao Rongfen	/ȶʰie^X/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʈʰɨ^X/
Li Rong	/ȶʰiə^X/
Wang Li	/ȶʰĭə^X/
Bernard Karlgren	/ȶʰi^X/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	chǐ
Expected Cantonese Reflex	ci²

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*[tʰ]rəʔ/
(Zhengzhang): /*kʰlɯʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	祉
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	zhǐ
Middle Chinese	‹ trhi^X ›
Old Chinese	/*[tʰ]rəʔ/
English	blessings
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	祉
Reading #	1/1
No.	17295
Phonetic component	止
Rime group	之
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	恥
Old Chinese	/*kʰlɯʔ/

Definitions

祉

happiness; blessings; good luck; felicity

Compounds

旅祉
福祉 (fúzhǐ)

潭祉叶吉

祉祿／祉禄

References

“祉”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Japanese

Shinjitai	祉
Kyūjitai [1]	祉 `祉` or 祉+`︀`^?
	祉󠄁 祉+`󠄁`^? (Adobe-Japan1)
	祉󠄃 祉+`󠄃`^? (Hanyo-Denshi) (Moji_Joho)
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Kanji

祉

(common “Jōyō” kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 祉)

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Readings

Go-on: ち (chi)
Kan-on: ち (chi)
Kan’yō-on: し (shi, Jōyō)
Kun: さいわい (saiwai, 祉い)^{←さいはひ (saifafi, historical)}
Nanori: とみ (tomi); よし (yoshi)

References

“祉”, in 漢字ぺディア (Kanjipedia)‎ (in Japanese), 日本漢字能力検定協会, 2015—2023

Korean

Hanja

祉 • (ji) (hangeul 지, revised ji, McCune–Reischauer chi, Yale ci)

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[1] “祉”, in 漢字ぺディア (Kanjipedia)‎ (in Japanese), 日本漢字能力検定協会, 2015—2023