籽

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

Translingual

Han character

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

References

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

Chinese

trad.		籽
simp. #		籽
2nd round simp.		子

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／形声, OC *ʔslɯʔ) : semantic 米 (“rice; grain”) + phonetic 子 (OC *ʔslɯʔ).

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “same word as 子?”)

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zǐ (zi³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄗˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zi²
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): chṳ́
• Jin (Wiktionary): zi²
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): chí / chú / chír

  (Teochew, Peng'im): zi² / ze² / zu²

• Wu (Wugniu)
  • (Northern): ⁵tsy / ³tsy

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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/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, erhua-ed) (籽兒／籽儿)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zǐr
    • Zhuyin: ㄗˇㄦ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: zǐhr
    • Wade–Giles: tzŭ³-ʼrh
    • Yale: dzǐr
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tzeel
    • Palladius: цзыр (czyr)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sz̩ɻ²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: zi²
    • Yale: jí
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzi²
    • Guangdong Romanization: ji²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡siː³⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chṳ́
    • Hakka Romanization System: zii`
    • Hagfa Pinyim: zi³
    • Sinological IPA: /t͡sɨ³¹/
• Jin
  • (Taiyuan)⁺
    • Wiktionary: zi²
    • Sinological IPA (old-style): /t͡sz̩⁵³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chí
    • Tâi-lô: tsí
    • Phofsit Daibuun: cie
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei): /t͡si⁵³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡si⁴¹/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡si⁵⁵⁴/
  • (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.

• (Teochew)
  • Peng'im: zi² / ze² / zu²
  • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tsí / tsṳ́ / tsú
  • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡si⁵²/, /t͡sɯ⁵²/, /t͡su⁵²/
• Wu
  • (Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ⁵tsy
    • MiniDict: tsy^去
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ²tsr
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /t͡sz̩³⁴/
  • (Suzhou)
    • Wugniu: ³tsy
    • MiniDict: tsy^上
    • Sinological IPA (Suzhou): /t͡sz̩⁵¹/

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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

Synonyms

• (Eastern Min) 子子

Compounds

• 棉籽 (miánzǐ)
• 油菜籽 (yóucàizǐ)
• 籽棉
• 籽種／籽种 (zǐzhǒng)
• 籽粒 (zǐlì)
• 罌粟籽／罂粟籽 (yīngsùzǐ)
• 胡麻籽
• 芥菜籽
• 茶籽 (cházǐ)
• 茴香籽
• 菜籽 (càizǐ)
• 葵花籽 (kuíhuāzǐ)
• 蒔蘿籽／莳萝籽
• 蓖麻籽

 

Japanese

Kanji

籽

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): し (shi)

Vietnamese

Han character

籽: Hán Nôm readings: tử

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