滋

滋 U+6ECB, 滋 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6ECB ← 滊 [U+6ECA] CJK Unified Ideographs 滌 → [U+6ECC]

滋 U+FA99, 滋 CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-FA99 ← 滛 [U+FA98] CJK Compatibility Ideographs 漢 → [U+FA9A]

滋 U+2F90B, 滋 CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-2F90B ← 㴳 [U+2F90A] CJK Compatibility Ideographs Supplement 滇 → [U+2F90C]

Translingual

Han character

• U+6ECB 滋 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 水廿女戈 (ETVI), four-corner 3813₂, composition ⿰氵兹)
• U+FA99 滋 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 水卜戈戈 (EYII), composition ⿰氵玆)

Derived characters

• 𬵱 (Contains ⿰氵玆 (U+FA99))

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 642, character 15
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17919
• Dae Jaweon: page 1049, character 19
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1686, character 6
• Unihan data for U+6ECB

• Unihan data for U+FA99

• Unihan data for U+2F90B

Chinese

simp. and trad.		滋
alternative forms		𣳯 𤂇

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (兹) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
糍	*zi
茲	*ʔsɯ, *zɯ
滋	*ʔsɯ
孳	*ʔsɯ, *zɯs
嵫	*ʔsɯ
嗞	*ʔsɯ
鎡	*ʔsɯ
鰦	*ʔsɯ
鶿	*ʔsɯ, *zɯ
稵	*ʔsɯ, *ʔsɯw
螆	*sʰɯs
慈	*zɯ
鷀	*zɯ
磁	*zɯ
礠	*zlɯ
濨	*zlɯ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ʔsɯ) : semantic 水 + phonetic 茲 (OC *ʔsɯ, *zɯ).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zī (zi¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄗ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zi¹
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): chir / chu

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zī
    • Zhuyin: ㄗ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: zih
    • Wade–Giles: tzŭ¹
    • Yale: dz̄
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tzy
    • Palladius: цзы (czy)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sz̩⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: zi¹
    • Yale: jī
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzi¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: ji¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡siː⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chir
    • Tâi-lô: tsir
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sɯ³³/
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chu
    • Tâi-lô: tsu
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zw
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung, Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /t͡su⁴⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: tsi

Rime
Character	滋
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	精 (13)
Final (韻)	之 (19)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	子之切
Baxter	tsi
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡sɨ/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡sɨ/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡sie/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/t͡sɨ/
Li Rong	/t͡siə/
Wang Li	/t͡sĭə/
Bernard Karlgren	/t͡si/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zī
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zi1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[ts]ə/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ʔsɯ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	滋
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	zī
Middle Chinese	‹ tsi ›
Old Chinese	/*[ts]ə/
English	abundant
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	滋
Reading #	1/1
No.	17836
Phonetic component	兹
Rime group	之
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	兹
Old Chinese	/*ʔsɯ/

Definitions

滋

1. to grow; to multiply
2. to cause
3. to increase
4. taste
5. (colloquial) to spurt

Compounds

• 不是滋味 (bùshì zīwèi)
• 個中滋味／个中滋味
• 愛滋病／爱滋病 (àizībìng)
• 日滋月益
• 日益月滋
• 暴力滋擾／暴力滋扰
• 松滋 (Sōngzī)
• 樂滋滋／乐滋滋 (lèzīzī)
• 樹德務滋／树德务滋
• 殊滋異味／殊滋异味
• 滋事 (zīshì)
• 滋味 (zīwèi)
• 滋味兒／滋味儿 (zīwèir)
• 滋擾／滋扰 (zīrǎo)
• 滋潤／滋润 (zīrùn)
• 滋生 (zīshēng)
• 滋育
• 滋芽
• 滋蔓 (zīmàn)
• 滋蔓難圖／滋蔓难图
• 滋補／滋补 (zībǔ)
• 滋長／滋长 (zīzhǎng)
• 滋養／滋养 (zīyǎng)
• 滋養品／滋养品
• 甘露滋心
• 聚眾滋事／聚众滋事
• 華爾滋／华尔滋
• 蕃滋
• 飛滋／飞滋

 

Japanese

Kanji

滋

(Fourth grade kyōiku kanji)

1. nourishment

Readings

• Go-on: し (shi)
• Kan-on: し (shi)
• Kan’yō-on: じ (ji, Jōyō)
• Kun: しげる (shigeru, 滋る)、ます (masu, 滋す)、ますます (masumasu)

Korean

Hanja

滋 (eumhun 불을 자 (bureul ja))

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Compounds

• 재미 (滋味, jaemi, “fun,enjoyment”)

Vietnamese

Han character

滋: Hán Nôm readings: tư

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