梓

梓 U+6893, 梓 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6893 ← 梒 [U+6892] CJK Unified Ideographs 梔 → [U+6894]

Translingual

Han character

梓 (Kangxi radical 75, 木+7, 11 strokes, cangjie input 木卜廿十 (DYTJ) or 難木卜廿十 (XDYTJ), four-corner 4094₁, composition ⿰木辛)

Derived characters

• 𣘲

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 528, character 25
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14845
• Dae Jaweon: page 917, character 13
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1219, character 3
• Unihan data for U+6893

Chinese

simp. and trad.		梓
alternative forms		杍

Wikipedia has articles on:

• 梓 (Written Standard Chinese^?)
• 梓 (Classical)

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
宰	*ʔsɯːʔ
縡	*ʔsɯːʔ, *ʔsɯːs
梓	*ʔsɯʔ
滓	*ʔsrɯʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ʔsɯʔ): semantic 木 (“wood; tree”) + abbreviated phonetic 宰 (OC *ʔsɯːʔ)

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zǐ (zi³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄗˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zi²
• Hakka

  (Sixian, PFS): chṳ́

  (Hailu, HRS): zii^ˊ

• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): chír / chú

  (Teochew, Peng'im): ze²

• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁵tsy

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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/
• 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 Neipu)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chṳ́
    • Hakka Romanization System: zii^ˋ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: zi³
    • Sinological IPA: /t͡sɨ³¹/
  • (Hailu, incl. Zhudong)
    • Hakka Romanization System: zii^ˊ
    • Sinological IPA: /t͡sɨ²⁴/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chír
    • Tâi-lô: tsír
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sɯ⁵⁵⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chú
    • Tâi-lô: tsú
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zuo
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /t͡su⁵³/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: ze²
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tsṳ́
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sɯ⁵²/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ⁵tsy
    • MiniDict: tsy^去
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ²tsr
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /t͡sz̩³⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: tsiX

Rime
Character	梓
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	精 (13)
Final (韻)	之 (19)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	即里切
Baxter	tsiX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡sɨX/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡sɨX/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡sieX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/t͡sɨX/
Li Rong	/t͡siəX/
Wang Li	/t͡sĭəX/
Bernhard Karlgren	/t͡siX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zǐ
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zi2

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[ts]əʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ʔsɯʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	梓
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	zǐ
Middle Chinese	‹ tsiX ›
Old Chinese	/*[ts]əʔ/
English	Catalpa
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	梓
Reading #	1/1
No.	16509
Phonetic component	宰
Rime group	之
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	子
Old Chinese	/*ʔsɯʔ/
Notes	說文宰省聲

Definitions

梓

1. yellow catalpa or Chinese catalpa (Catalpa ovata)

   Coordinate term: 楸 (qiū)

2. craftsman who produces wooden items

   梓匠  ―  zǐjiàng  ―  woodworker

3. hometown
4. printing block

   付梓  ―  fùzǐ  ―  to send a manuscript to the press

5. a surname

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (梓):

• → Japanese: 梓(し) (shi)

Compounds

• 上梓 (shàngzǐ)
• 付梓 (fùzǐ)
• 吳敬梓 / 吴敬梓
• 喬梓 / 乔梓 (qiáozǐ)
• 木梓 (Mùzǐ)
• 杞梓
• 桑梓 (sāngzǐ)
• 桑梓之邦
• 梓人
• 梓匠
• 梓匠輪輿 / 梓匠轮舆
• 梓器
• 梓宮 / 梓宫
• 梓材
• 梓楠堤 (Zǐnándī)
• 梓鄉 / 梓乡
• 梓里
• 楠梓 (Nánzǐ, “Nanzih”)
• 橋梓 / 桥梓 (qiáozǐ)
• 洋梓 (Yángzǐ)
• 荊南杞梓 / 荆南杞梓
• 賢喬梓 / 贤乔梓
• 鄉梓 / 乡梓 (xiāngzǐ)

References

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A01935