秭

秭

秭 U+79ED, 秭 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-79ED ← 秬 [U+79EC] CJK Unified Ideographs 秮 → [U+79EE]

Translingual

Han character

秭 (Kangxi radical 115, 禾+5, 10 strokes, cangjie input 竹木中X竹 (HDLXH), four-corner 2592₇, composition ⿰禾𠂔)

References

• KangXi: page 852, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 25003
• Dae Jaweon: page 1276, character 8
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2594, character 14
• Unihan data for U+79ED

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		秭

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
姊	*ʔsiʔ
秭	*ʔsiʔ
趀	*sʰi
笫	*ʔsriʔ, *ʔsrɯʔ
胏	*ʔsrɯʔ
柹	*zrɯʔ
柿	*zrɯʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ʔsiʔ) : semantic 禾 (“rice”) + phonetic 𠂔.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zǐ (zi³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄗˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zi²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zǐ
    • Zhuyin: ㄗˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: zǐh
    • Wade–Giles: tzŭ³
    • Yale: dž
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tzyy
    • Palladius: цзы (czy)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sz̩²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: zi²
    • Yale: jí
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzi²
    • Guangdong Romanization: ji²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡siː³⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: /t͡siɪ^X/

Rime
Character	秭
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	精 (13)
Final (韻)	脂 (15)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	將几切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡siɪX/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡siX/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡sjɪX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/t͡siX/
Li Rong	/t͡siX/
Wang Li	/t͡siX/
Bernard Karlgren	/t͡siX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zǐ
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zi2

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[ts][i]jʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ʔsiʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	秭
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	zǐ
Middle Chinese	‹ tsijX ›
Old Chinese	/*[ts][i]jʔ/
English	a high number
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	秭
Reading #	1/1
No.	17871
Phonetic component	秭
Rime group	脂
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	𡛷
Old Chinese	/*ʔsiʔ/
Notes	依曶鼎金文右上爲屮來， 下粗筆象封堆， 即表禾積義，轉註加禾爲秭

Definitions

秭

1. a numeral that refers to various numbers, including 10⁹, 10¹² and 10²⁴

Compounds

秭歸／秭归 (Zǐguī, “Zigui”)

秭鳺／秭𱉎

See also

Chinese numerals
104	108	1012	1016	1020	1024	1028	1032	1036	1040	1044	1048
萬／万 (wàn)	億／亿 (yì)	兆 (zhào) (Taiwan)	京 (jīng) (Taiwan)	垓 (gāi)	秭 (zǐ)	穰 (ráng)	溝／沟 (gōu)	澗／涧 (jiàn)	正 (zhèng)	載／载 (zài)	極／极 (jí)
		萬億／万亿 (wànyì) (Mainland China)	億億/亿亿 (Mainland China)

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Japanese

Kanji

秭

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

Readings

• Go-on: し (shi)
• Kan-on: し (shi)

Number

Kanji in this term
秭
し Hyōgaiji
on’yomi

秭(し) • (shi) 

1. A trillion trillion, 10²⁴, or a septillion of modern English in modern Japanese since 17th century.

   Synonym: 𥝱

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Korean

Hanja

秭 • (ja) (hangeul 자, revised ja, McCune–Reischauer cha)

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