梔

See also: 栀

梔 U+6894, 梔 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6894 ← 梓 [U+6893] CJK Unified Ideographs 梕 → [U+6895]

Translingual

Han character

梔 (Kangxi radical 75, 木+7, 11 strokes, cangjie input 木竹一山 (DHMU), four-corner 4291₇, composition ⿰木巵)

Derived characters

• 𫆱

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 529, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14846
• Dae Jaweon: page 917, character 16
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1216, character 6
• Unihan data for U+6894

Chinese

trad.		梔
simp.		栀

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 梔
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

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

	Old Chinese
巵	*tje
梔	*tje

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zhī (zhi¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄓ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zi¹
• Hakka

  (Sixian, PFS): kî

  (Hailu, HRS): gi^ˋ

• Eastern Min (BUC): gĭ / ciĕ
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): gi¹ / ci¹ / zi¹
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): ki / kiⁿ / chi

  (Teochew, Peng'im): gi¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zhī
    • Zhuyin: ㄓ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jhih
    • Wade–Giles: chih¹
    • Yale: jr̄
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jy
    • Palladius: чжи (čži)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʐ̩⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: zi¹
    • Yale: jī
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzi¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: ji¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡siː⁵⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: kî
    • Hakka Romanization System: gi^ˊ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: gi¹
    • Sinological IPA: /ki²⁴/
  • (Hailu, incl. Zhudong)
    • Hakka Romanization System: gi^ˋ
    • Sinological IPA: /ki⁵³/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: gĭ / ciĕ
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ki⁵⁵/, /t͡sie⁵⁵/

Note:

• gĭ - vernacular;
• ciĕ - literary.

• Puxian Min
  • (Putian)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: gi¹
    • Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: gi
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ki⁵³³/
  • (Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: gi¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ki⁵⁴⁴/
  • (Putian)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: ci¹
    • Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: chi
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰi⁵³³/
  • (Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: ci¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰi⁵⁴⁴/
  • (Putian)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: zi¹
    • Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: ci
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡si⁵³³/
  • (Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: zi¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡si⁵⁴⁴/
Note:
• gi1 - vernacular;
• ci1/zi1 - literary.
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ki
    • Tâi-lô: ki
    • Phofsit Daibuun: ky
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /ki⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /ki³³/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kiⁿ
    • Tâi-lô: kinn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: kvy
    • IPA (Xiamen): /kĩ⁴⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chi
    • Tâi-lô: tsi
    • Phofsit Daibuun: cy
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡si³³/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /t͡si⁴⁴/
Note:
• ki - vernacular;
• chi - literary.
• • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: gi¹
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: ki
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ki³³/

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• Middle Chinese: tsye

Rime
Character	梔
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	章 (23)
Final (韻)	支 (11)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	章移切
Baxter	tsye
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡ɕiᴇ/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡ɕiɛ/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡ɕjɛ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ciə̆/
Li Rong	/t͡ɕie/
Wang Li	/t͡ɕǐe/
Bernhard Karlgren	/t͡ɕie̯/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zhī
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zi1

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*tje/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	梔
Reading #	1/1
No.	17242
Phonetic component	巵
Rime group	支
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	支
Old Chinese	/*tje/

Definitions

梔

1. gardenia; Cape jasmine (Gardenia jasminoides)
2. (by extension) to dye yellow

Compounds

• 梔子 / 栀子 (zhīzi)
• 梔子花 / 栀子花 (zhīzihuā)
• 梔蠟 / 栀蜡
• 梔貌蠟言 / 栀貌蜡言
• 緬梔 / 缅栀

References

• “梔”, in 重編國語辭典修訂本 [Revised Mandarin Chinese Dictionary] (in Chinese), National Academy for Educational Research (Taiwan), 2021.
• “梔”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
• “梔”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2025.
• 李如龙 [Li, Ru-long]; 刘福铸 [Liu, Fu-zhu]; 吴华英 [Wu, Hua-ying]; 黄国城 [Huang, Guo-cheng] (2019), “栀（～子花）”, in 莆仙方言调查报告 [Investigation Report on Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 159.
• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “栀”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 308.

Japanese

Kanji

See also:

Category:Japanese terms spelled with 梔

梔

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. gardenia

Readings

• On (unclassified): し (shi)
• Kun: くちなし (kuchinashi, 梔)

Korean

Hanja

梔 (eum 치 (chi))

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Vietnamese

Han character

梔: Hán Nôm readings: chi

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References

• Nom Foundation