觜

觜 U+89DC, 觜 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-89DC ← 觛 [U+89DB] CJK Unified Ideographs 觝 → [U+89DD]

Translingual

Han character

觜 (Kangxi radical 148, 角+6, 13 strokes, cangjie input 卜心弓月土 (YPNBG) or 卜心弓月手 (YPNBQ), four-corner 2122₇, composition ⿱此角)

Derived characters

• 嘴, 蟕, 𪬰, 𣚀, 𫙾

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1141, character 8
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 35050
• Dae Jaweon: page 1608, character 9
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3924, character 2
• Unihan data for U+89DC

Chinese

Glyph origin

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

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

	Old Chinese
些	*saːls, *sjaːl, *seːs
跐	*ʔsreːʔ, *ʔseʔ, *sʰeʔ, *ʔsreʔ
柴	*zreː
祡	*zreː
茈	*zreː, *ʔseʔ, *ze
眦	*zreːs
砦	*zraːds
寨	*zraːds, *slɯːɡ
啙	*ʔseː, *zeːʔ, *ʔseʔ
泚	*sʰeːʔ, *sʰeʔ
玼	*sʰeːʔ, *sʰeʔ, *ze
皉	*sʰeːʔ
鮆	*zeːʔ, *ʔse
眥	*zeːs, *zes
貲	*ʔse
髭	*ʔse
頾	*ʔse
訾	*ʔse, *ʔseʔ
鴜	*ʔse, *ze
鈭	*ʔse, *sʰe
姕	*ʔse, *sʰe, *ze
觜	*ʔse, *ʔse, *ʔseʔ
紫	*ʔseʔ
訿	*ʔseʔ
呰	*ʔseʔ
嘴	*ʔseʔ
雌	*sʰe
此	*sʰeʔ
佌	*sʰeʔ, *seʔ
庛	*sʰes
疵	*ze
骴	*ze, *zes
胔	*ze, *zes
飺	*ze
齜	*ʔsre

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ʔse, *ʔse, *ʔseʔ): phonetic 此 (OC *sʰeʔ) + semantic 角.

Etymology 1

For pronunciation and definitions of 觜 – see 嘴 (“mouth; etc.”). (This character is a variant form of 嘴).

Etymology 2

trad.		觜
simp. #		觜

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zī (zi¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄗ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zi¹

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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–Macau)
    • Jyutping: zi¹
    • Yale: jī
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzi¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: ji¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡siː⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: tsje, tsje

Rime
Character	觜	觜
Reading #	1/3	2/3
Initial (聲)	精 (13)	精 (13)
Final (韻)	支 (11)	支 (11)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	即移切	姊移切
Baxter	tsje	tsje
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡siᴇ/	/t͡siᴇ/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡siɛ/	/t͡siɛ/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡sjɛ/	/t͡sjɛ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/t͡siə̆/	/t͡siə̆/
Li Rong	/t͡sie/	/t͡sie/
Wang Li	/t͡sǐe/	/t͡sǐe/
Bernhard Karlgren	/t͡sie̯/	/t͡sie̯/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zī	zī
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zi1	zi1

Definitions

觜

1. Turtle Beak, one of the twenty-eight lunar mansions of Chinese astronomy
2. the horn-shaped feathers on the head of an owl

Compounds

• 凍凌觜臉 / 冻凌觜脸
• 觜蠵
• 觜觿
• 觜鼻
• 麟角鳳觜 / 麟角凤觜

Japanese

Kanji

See also:

Category:Japanese terms spelled with 觜

觜

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. beak; bill

Readings

From Middle Chinese 觜 (MC tsjweX); compare Mandarin 觜 (zuǐ):

• Go-on: すい (sui)
• Kan-on: すい (sui)
• Kan’yō-on: し (shi)

From Middle Chinese 觜 (MC tsje|tsje); compare Mandarin 觜 (zī):

• Go-on: し (shi)
• Kan-on: し (shi)

From native Japanese roots:

• Kun: くちばし (kuchibashi, 觜)、はし (hashi, 觜)

Definitions

Kanji in this term
觜
はし Hyōgai
kun'yomi

For pronunciation and definitions of 觜 – see the following entry.

【嘴はし】H [noun] (zootomy) beak; bill

(This term, 觜, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

References

• “^▲觜”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎ (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2025

Korean

Hanja

觜 • (ja, chwi) (hangeul 자, 취, revised ja, chwi, McCune–Reischauer cha, ch'wi, Yale ca, chwi)

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