籽

籽

籽 U+7C7D, 籽 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7C7D ← 籼 [U+7C7C] CJK Unified Ideographs 籾 → [U+7C7E]

Translingual

Han character

籽 (radical 119, 米+3, 9 strokes, cangjie input 火木弓木 (FDND), four-corner 9794₇, composition ⿰米子)

References

• KangXi: not present, would follow page 907, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 26852
• Dae Jaweon: page 1332, character 17
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3142, character 7
• Unihan data for U+7C7D

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		籽
variant forms		子 (second-round simplified)

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (子) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
孜	*ʔslɯ
仔	*ʔslɯ, *ʔslɯʔ
孖	*ʔslɯ, *zlɯs
子	*ʔslɯʔ
虸	*ʔslɯʔ
耔	*ʔslɯʔ
秄	*ʔslɯʔ
杍	*ʔslɯʔ
籽	*ʔslɯʔ
字	*zlɯs
茡	*zlɯs
芓	*zlɯs
牸	*zlɯs
李	*rɯʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ʔslɯʔ) : semantic 米 (“rice; grain”) + phonetic 子 (OC *ʔslɯʔ).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zǐ (zi³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄗˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zi²
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): chṳ́
• Min Nan (POJ): chí / chú / chír

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: zǐ
    • Zhuyin: ㄗˇ
    • Wade–Giles: tzu³
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tzyy
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡sz̩²¹⁴/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, erhua-ed)⁺
    • Pinyin: zǐr
    • Zhuyin: ㄗˇㄦ
    • Wade–Giles: tsirh³
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tzeel
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡sz̩əɻ²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: zi²
    • Yale: jí
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzi²
    • Guangdong Romanization: ji²
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡siː³⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chṳ́
    • Hakka Romanization System: zii`
    • Hagfa Pinyim: zi³
    • IPA: /t͡sɨ³¹/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chí
    • Tâi-lô: tsí
    • Phofsit Daibuun: cie
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡ɕi⁵⁵⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡ɕi⁴¹/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei): /t͡ɕi⁵³/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chú
    • Tâi-lô: tsú
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zuo
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /t͡su⁵³/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chír
    • Tâi-lô: tsír
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sɯ⁵⁵⁴/

Note:

• chí - vernacular;
• chú/chír - literary.

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• Old Chinese▼

  (Zhengzhang): /*ʔslɯʔ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	籽
Reading #	1/1
No.	17863
Phonetic component	子
Rime group	之
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	子
Old Chinese	/*ʔslɯʔ/
Notes	子晚起分化字

Definitions

籽

1. seed

Compounds

棉籽 (miánzǐ) 油菜籽 (yóucàizǐ) 籽棉 籽種／籽种 籽粒 (zǐlì)

罌粟籽／罂粟籽 (yīngsùzǐ) 胡麻籽 芥菜籽 茴香籽 茶籽 (cházǐ)

菜籽 (càizǐ) 葵花籽 (kuíhuāzǐ) 蒔蘿籽／莳萝籽 蓖麻籽

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Japanese

Kanji

籽

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): し (shi)

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Vietnamese

Han character

籽 (tử)

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