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Definition 2024


Translingual

Han character

(radical 75 +5, 9 strokes, cangjie input 木一口 (DMR), four-corner 41960, composition)

  1. a thorny tree
  2. sugar cane
  3. Maclura tricuspidata (Chinese mulberry)

References

  • KangXi: page 519, character 9
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14626
  • Dae Jaweon: page 907, character 7
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1180, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+67D8

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Bamboo and silk script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*tjaɡs
*taːɡs
*taːɡs
*taːɡ, *tʰaːɡ
*tʰaːɡ, *tjaɡ
*tʰaːɡ
*tʰaːɡ
*tʰaːɡ, *raːɡ
*tjaɡ
*ŋrɯnʔ, *ŋ̥ʰjaɡ, *ŋaɡ
*rtaːɡ
*tjaɡ
*djaɡ
*djaɡ
*djaɡ
*djaɡ
*djaɡ

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (23)
Final () (100)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/t͡ɕiaH/
Pan
Wuyun
/t͡ɕiaH/
Shao
Rongfen
/t͡ɕiaH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ciaH/
Li
Rong
/t͡ɕiaH/
Wang
Li
/t͡ɕĭaH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/t͡ɕi̯aH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
zhè
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
zhè
Middle
Chinese
‹ tsyæH ›
Old
Chinese
/*tAk-s/
English a kind of mulberry tree

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
Reading # 1/1
No. 11454
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*tjaɡs/

Definitions

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Compounds

  • 柘枝
  • 柘漿柘浆
  • 柘絲柘丝
  • 柘黃柘黄
  • 桑柘
  • 潭柘

Japanese

Kanji

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings


Korean

Hanja

(ja) (hangeul , revised ja, McCune-Reischauer cha, Yale ca)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(, giá, chá)

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