櫛

See also: 栉

櫛 U+6ADB, 櫛 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6ADB ← 櫚 [U+6ADA] CJK Unified Ideographs 櫜 → [U+6ADC]

櫛 U+2F8ED, 櫛 CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-2F8ED ← 𣚣 [U+2F8EC] CJK Compatibility Ideographs Supplement 㰘 → [U+2F8EE]

Translingual

Han character

櫛 (Kangxi radical 75, 木+15, 19 strokes, cangjie input 木竹日中 (DHAL), four-corner 4892₇, composition ⿰木節)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 560, character 24
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 15817
• Dae Jaweon: page 949, character 21
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1302, character 8
• Unihan data for U+6ADB

• Unihan data for U+2F8ED

Chinese

trad.		櫛
simp.		栉

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
卪	*ʔsiːɡ
癤	*ʔsiːɡ
幯	*ʔsiːɡ
節	*ʔsiːɡ
蝍	*ʔsiːɡ, *ʔsiɡ, *ʔsɯɡ
蠞	*ziːɡ
堲	*ʔsiɡ, *ʔsɯɡ, *zɯɡ
唧	*ʔsiɡ, *ʔsɯɡ
楖	*ʔsiɡ, *ʔsriɡ, *ʔsɯɡ
揤	*ziɡ, *ʔsɯɡ
櫛	*ʔsriɡ
瀄	*ʔsriɡ
擳	*ʔsriɡ
即	*ʔsɯɡ
鯽	*ʔsɯɡ, *ʔseɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ʔsriɡ): semantic 木 (“tree”) + phonetic 節 (OC *ʔsiːɡ).

Etymology

Possibly from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *mV-s(r)i ("PTB" *m-si-t) although the initial MC affricate needs explanation (Schuessler, 2007; p. 312).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zhì, jié

  (Zhuyin): ㄓˋ, ㄐㄧㄝˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zit³
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): chit / sat

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Mainland)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zhì
    • Zhuyin: ㄓˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jhìh
    • Wade–Giles: chih⁴
    • Yale: jr̀
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jyh
    • Palladius: чжи (čži)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʐ̩⁵¹/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Taiwan)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: jié
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄧㄝˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jié
    • Wade–Giles: chieh²
    • Yale: jyé
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jye
    • Palladius: цзе (cze)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕi̯ɛ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: zit³
    • Yale: jit
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzit⁸
    • Guangdong Romanization: jid³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡siːt̚³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chit
    • Tâi-lô: tsit
    • Phofsit Daibuun: cid
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /t͡sit̚³²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sit̚⁵/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, General Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sat
    • Tâi-lô: sat
    • Phofsit Daibuun: sad
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung, Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /sat̚³²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /sat̚⁵/

Note:

• chit - literary;
• sat - vernacular.

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• Middle Chinese: tsrit

Rime
Character	櫛
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	莊 (18)
Final (韻)	櫛 (51)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	阻瑟切
Baxter	tsrit
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡ʃɪt̚/
Pan Wuyun	/ʈ͡ʂɪt̚/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡ʃiet̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʈ͡ʂit̚/
Li Rong	/t͡ʃiĕt̚/
Wang Li	/t͡ʃĭet̚/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ʈ͡ʂi̯æt̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zhe
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zat1

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*ʔsriɡ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	櫛
Reading #	1/1
No.	5721
Phonetic component	即
Rime group	質
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	櫛
Old Chinese	/*ʔsriɡ/

Definitions

櫛

1. comb
2. to comb out
3. to weed out; to eliminate

Compounds

• 不櫛進士 / 不栉进士
• 侍巾櫛 / 侍巾栉
• 執巾櫛 / 执巾栉
• 巾櫛 / 巾栉
• 櫛垢爬癢 / 栉垢爬痒
• 櫛工 / 栉工
• 櫛櫛 / 栉栉
• 櫛次鱗比 / 栉次鳞比
• 櫛比 / 栉比 (zhìbǐ)
• 櫛比鱗差 / 栉比鳞差
• 櫛比鱗次 / 栉比鳞次 (zhìbǐlíncì)
• 櫛沐 / 栉沐
• 櫛風沐雨 / 栉风沐雨 (zhìfēngmùyǔ)
• 櫛髮工 / 栉发工
• 沐雨櫛風 / 沐雨栉风
• 爬櫛 / 爬栉
• 盥櫛 / 盥栉
• 篦櫛 / 篦栉
• 象櫛 / 象栉 (xiàngzhì)
• 風櫛雨沐 / 风栉雨沐
• 鱗次櫛比 / 鳞次栉比 (líncìzhìbǐ)