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English definition only, just, simply
Mandarin pronunciation(s), using the Hanyu Pinyin romanization system zhi3 zhi1
Pronunciation(s) and frequencies according to 現代漢語頻率詞典 <Xiandai Hanyu Pinlu Cidian> (XDHYPLCD) zhǐ(3118) zhī(749)
Tang dynasty pronunciation(s), derived from or consistent with T'ang Poetic Vocabulary by Hugh M. Stimson, Far Eastern Publications, Yale Univ. 1976 *jǐɛ
Cantonese pronunciation(s), using the Jyutping romanization system zi2
Cantonese pronunciation(s), using the Yale romanization system ji2
Japanese (Kana) シ シツ シチ ただ
Japanese (Hepburn) tada
Sino-Japanese shi
Korean pronunciation(s), using the Yale romanization system ci
Hangul 지:0E
Vietnamese pronunciation(s) in Quốc ngữ chỉ
Simplified variants
Traditional variants
Semantic variants (x- or y-variants with similar or identical meaning)
Specialized semantic variants (x- or y-variants with similar or identical meaning only in certain contexts)
Unicode radical / stroke count + 2
Unicode total stroke count 5
Cangjie RC
Four corner code 6080.0
Expected to be known in Hong Kong school system primary grade 1
漢語大字典 <Hanyu Da Zidian> 'Great Chinese Character Dictionary' (in 8 Volumes). Hubei and Sichuan Dictionary Publishing Collectives, 1986-1990. ISBN: 7-5403-0030 2/H.16 volume 1, page 570, character 3
KangXi dictionary, 7th edition published by Zhonghua Bookstore in Beijing, 1989 page 172, position 5
Dae Jaweon (Korean) dictionary, first edition, published in Seoul by Samseong Publishing Co., Ltd., 1988 page 383, position 1
Grammata Serica Recensa, Bernhard Karlgren, 1957 0865a
Cihai (辭海) dictionary, single volume edition, published in Hong Kong by the Zhonghua Bookstore, 1983 (reprint of the 1947 edition), ISBN 962-231-005-2 page 243, row 4, position 1
宋本廣韻 <Song Ben Guang Yun> Song Dynasty edition of the Guang Yun Rhyming Dictionary page 40, character 38 page 240, character 27
This represents the position(s) of the ideograph in the Soengmou San Zidin (商務新字典, New Commercial Press Character Dictionary) page 87, character 8 page 48, character 4
The Five Thousand Dictionary (Fenn's Chinese-English Pocket Dictionary) by Courtenay H. Fenn, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1979 757A
page 68, position 3
Ten Thousand Characters: An Analytic Dictionary by G. Hugh Casey, S.J. Hong Kong: Kelley and Walsh, 1980 100 140 164 1184
Chinese-English Dictionary by Robert H. Mathews, Cambrige: Harvard University Press, 1975 946
A Practical Cantonese-English Dictionary by Sidney Lau, Hong Kong: The Government Printer, 1977 1428
Roy T. Cowles, A Pocket Dictionary of Cantonese, Hong Kong: University Press, 1999 176 220 241
Student's Cantonese-English Dictionary by Bernard F. Meyer and Theodore F. Wempe (3rd edition, 1947) 198 240 268
常用字字形表 (二零零零年修訂本),香港: 香港教育學院, 2000, ISBN 962-949-040-4 0487
The Modern Reader's Japanese-English Character Dictionary by Andrew Nathaniel Nelson, Rutland, Vermont: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1974 0874
PRC telegraph code 0662
Taiwan telegraph code 0662
Unicode code point (dec / hex): 21482 / 53EA


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