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English definition offspring, child; fruit, seed of; first earthly branch
Mandarin pronunciation(s), using the Hanyu Pinyin romanization system zi3 zi5
Pronunciation(s) and frequencies according to 現代漢語頻率詞典 <Xiandai Hanyu Pinlu Cidian> (XDHYPLCD) zi(6853) zǐ(1114)
Tang dynasty pronunciation(s), derived from or consistent with T'ang Poetic Vocabulary by Hugh M. Stimson, Far Eastern Publications, Yale Univ. 1976 *tziə̌
Cantonese pronunciation(s), using the Jyutping romanization system zi2
Cantonese pronunciation(s), using the Yale romanization system ji2
Japanese (Kana) シ ス ジ こ ね
Japanese (Hepburn) ko mi otoko
Sino-Japanese shi su
Korean pronunciation(s), using the Yale romanization system ca
Hangul 자:0E
Vietnamese pronunciation(s) in Quốc ngữ
Semantic variants (x- or y-variants with similar or identical meaning)
Unicode radical / stroke count 子孑 + 0
Unicode total stroke count 3
Cangjie ND
Four corner code 1740.7
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 2, page 1006, character 6
漢語大字典 <Hanyu Da Zidian> has a radical break beginning at this character's position radical
volume 2, page 1006, character 6
KangXi dictionary, 7th edition published by Zhonghua Bookstore in Beijing, 1989 page 277, position 1
Dae Jaweon (Korean) dictionary, first edition, published in Seoul by Samseong Publishing Co., Ltd., 1988 page 543, position 15
Grammata Serica Recensa, Bernhard Karlgren, 1957 0964a
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 395, row 1, position 1
宋本廣韻 <Song Ben Guang Yun> Song Dynasty edition of the Guang Yun Rhyming Dictionary page 253, character 30
This represents the position(s) of the ideograph in the Soengmou San Zidin (商務新字典, New Commercial Press Character Dictionary) page 162, character 13
The Five Thousand Dictionary (Fenn's Chinese-English Pocket Dictionary) by Courtenay H. Fenn, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1979 112A
page 584, position 10
Ten Thousand Characters: An Analytic Dictionary by G. Hugh Casey, S.J. Hong Kong: Kelley and Walsh, 1980 134
Chinese-English Dictionary by Robert H. Mathews, Cambrige: Harvard University Press, 1975 6939
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 4667
Student's Cantonese-English Dictionary by Bernard F. Meyer and Theodore F. Wempe (3rd edition, 1947) 3532
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 0969
The Modern Reader's Japanese-English Character Dictionary by Andrew Nathaniel Nelson, Rutland, Vermont: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1974 1264
PRC telegraph code 1311
Taiwan telegraph code 1311
Unicode code point (dec / hex): 23376 / 5B50


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