祇

See also: 衹 and 祗

祇 U+7947, 祇 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7947 ← 祆 [U+7946] CJK Unified Ideographs 祈 → [U+7948]

Translingual

Han character

祇 (Kangxi radical 113, 示+4, 8 strokes in Chinese, 9 strokes in Japanese and Korean, cangjie input 戈火竹女心 (IFHVP), four-corner 3224₀, composition ⿰礻氏)

Derived characters

• 𭉌

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 840, character 8
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 24639
• Dae Jaweon: page 1258, character 10
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2389, character 1
• Unihan data for U+7947

Chinese

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
氏	*skeŋ, *kje, *ɡjeʔ
衹	*kje, *ɡe
紙	*kjeʔ
帋	*kjeʔ
扺	*kjeʔ
坁	*kjeʔ
汦	*kjeʔ, *tjil
忯	*ɡje, *ɡe
眂	*ɡje, *ɡils
舐	*ɦljeʔ
芪	*ɡe
祇	*ɡe
疧	*ɡe
軝	*ɡe
蚔	*ɡe

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ɡe): semantic 示 + phonetic 氏 (OC *skeŋ, *kje, *ɡjeʔ).

Etymology 1

simp. and trad.		祇
alternative forms		祗

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): qí (qi²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄑㄧˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): kei⁴
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): kî

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: qí
    • Zhuyin: ㄑㄧˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: cí
    • Wade–Giles: chʻi²
    • Yale: chí
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chyi
    • Palladius: ци (ci)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰi³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong–Macau)
    • Jyutping: kei⁴
    • Yale: kèih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: kei⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: kéi⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰei̯²¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kî
    • Tâi-lô: kî
    • Phofsit Daibuun: kii
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /ki¹³/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Quanzhou): /ki²⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: gjie

Rime
Character	祇
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	群 (30)
Final (韻)	支 (11)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	巨支切
Baxter	gjie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɡiᴇ/
Pan Wuyun	/ɡiɛ/
Shao Rongfen	/ɡjɛ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/giə̆/
Li Rong	/ɡie/
Wang Li	/ɡǐe/
Bernhard Karlgren	/gie̯/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	qí
Expected Cantonese Reflex	kei4

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[k.d]e/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɡe/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	祇
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	qí
Middle Chinese	‹ gjie ›
Old Chinese	/*[k.d]e/ (dialect: *k.d- > *ɡ.d- > *ɡ-, no palatalization)
English	earth spirit
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	祇
Reading #	1/1
No.	11526
Phonetic component	氏
Rime group	支
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	祇
Old Chinese	/*ɡe/

Definitions

祇

1. earth spirit
2. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) big
3. to feel relieved; to be at ease
4. this

Compounds

• 僧祇 (sēngqí)
• 土祇
• 地祇 (dìqí)
• 官員祇候 / 官员祇候
• 祇悔
• 祇樹有緣 / 祇树有缘
• 祇洹精舍
• 神祇 (shénqí)
• 阿僧祇 (āsēngqí)
• 靈祇 / 灵祇

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 祇 – see 只 (“only; just; simply; merely; originally; at first; etc.”). (This character is a variant traditional form of 只).

References

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A02884

Japanese

Shinjitai (extended)	Shinjitai (extended)	祇󠄀 祇+󠄀? (Adobe-Japan1)
祇󠄂 祇+󠄂? (Hanyo-Denshi) (Moji_Joho)
Print standard	祇
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Kanji

See also:

Category:Japanese terms spelled with 祇

祇

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: ぎ (gi)
• Kan-on: き (ki)
• Kan’yō-on: し (shi)
• Kun: くにつかみ (kunitsukami, 祇)、ただ (tada, 祇)、まさに (masani)
• Nanori: まさ (masa)

Compounds

• 阿僧祇(あそうぎ) (asōgi)
• 大山祇(おおやまつみ) (ōyamatsumi)
• 祇王寺(ぎおうじ) (giōji)
• 祇園(ぎおん) (gion)
• 神祇(じんぎ) (jingi)
• 天神地祇(てんじんちぎ) (tenjinchigi)

Korean

Hanja

祇 • (gi, ji) (hangeul 기, 지, revised gi, ji, McCune–Reischauer ki, chi, Yale ki, ci)

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Compounds

• 신기 (神祇, sin'gi)

Vietnamese

Han character

祇: Hán Việt readings: chi, chỉ, kì, kỳ
祇: Nôm readings: chỉ

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