趾

趾 U+8DBE, 趾 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8DBE ← 趽 [U+8DBD] CJK Unified Ideographs 趿 → [U+8DBF]

Translingual

Han character

趾 (Kangxi radical 157, 足+4, 11 strokes, cangjie input 口一卜中一 (RMYLM), four-corner 6111₀, composition ⿰𧾷止)

1. toe
2. tracks, footprints

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1222, character 15
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 37406
• Dae Jaweon: page 1693, character 37
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3691, character 1
• Unihan data for U+8DBE

Chinese

simp. and trad.		趾

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
祉	*kʰlɯʔ
址	*kjɯʔ
止	*kjɯʔ
趾	*kjɯʔ
芷	*kjɯʔ
沚	*kjɯʔ
阯	*kjɯʔ
齒	*kʰjɯʔ
紕	*be, *pʰi, *kʰjɯʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *kjɯʔ): semantic 足 (“foot”) + phonetic 止 (OC *kjɯʔ)

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zhǐ (zhi³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄓˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zi²
• Hakka

  (Sixian, PFS): chṳ́

  (Hailu, HRS): zhi^ˊ

  (Meixian, Guangdong): zi³

• Jin (Wiktionary): zi²
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): zi³
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): chí

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zhǐ
    • Zhuyin: ㄓˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jhǐh
    • Wade–Giles: chih³
    • Yale: jř
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jyy
    • Palladius: чжи (čži)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʐ̩²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong–Macau)
    • 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: zhi^ˊ
    • Sinological IPA: /t͡ʃi²⁴/
  • (Meixian)
    • Guangdong: zi³
    • Sinological IPA: /t͡sz̩³¹/
• Jin
  • (Taiyuan)⁺
    • Wiktionary: zi²
    • Sinological IPA (old-style): /t͡sz̩⁵³/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: zi³
    • Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: cî
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡si⁴⁵³/
  • (Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: zi³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡si³³²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, General Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chí
    • Tâi-lô: tsí
    • Phofsit Daibuun: cie
    • IPA (Taipei, Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /t͡si⁵³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡si⁴¹/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡si⁵⁵⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: tsyiX

Rime
Character	趾
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	章 (23)
Final (韻)	之 (19)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	諸市切
Baxter	tsyiX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡ɕɨX/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡ɕɨX/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡ɕieX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/cɨX/
Li Rong	/t͡ɕiəX/
Wang Li	/t͡ɕĭəX/
Bernhard Karlgren	/t͡ɕiX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zhǐ
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zi2

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*təʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*kjɯʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	趾
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	zhǐ
Middle Chinese	‹ tsyiX ›
Old Chinese	/*təʔ/
English	foot, heel, toe
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	趾
Reading #	1/1
No.	17298
Phonetic component	止
Rime group	之
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	止
Old Chinese	/*kjɯʔ/
Notes	趾轉註字

Definitions

趾

1. (anatomy) toe; foot
2. track; footprint

Compounds

• 交趾 (Jiāozhǐ)
• 交趾燒 / 交趾烧
• 交趾陶
• 刖趾適屨 / 刖趾适屦
• 削趾適屨 / 削趾适屦
• 圓顱方趾 / 圆颅方趾
• 基趾
• 大腳趾 / 大脚趾 (dàjiǎozhǐ)
• 大趾 (dàzhǐ)
• 截趾適屨 / 截趾适屦
• 拇趾 (mǔzhǐ)
• 敢攀玉趾
• 方趾圓顱 / 方趾圆颅
• 步趾
• 滅趾 / 灭趾
• 玄趾
• 玉趾
• 繫趾 / 系趾
• 腳趾 / 脚趾 (jiǎozhǐ)
• 腳趾公 / 脚趾公
• 趾氣高揚 / 趾气高扬
• 趾甲 (zhǐjiǎ)
• 趾紋 / 趾纹
• 趾頭 / 趾头 (zhǐtou)
• 趾骨 (zhǐgǔ)
• 趾高氣揚 / 趾高气扬 (zhǐgāoqìyáng)
• 麟之趾
• 麟趾呈祥

References

• “趾”, 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–
• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “趾”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 309.

Japanese

Kanji

See also:

Category:Japanese terms spelled with 趾

趾

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. toe

Readings

• Go-on: し (shi)
• Kan-on: し (shi)
• Kun: あしゆび (ashiyubi, 趾)、あと (ato, 趾)、もと (moto)

Etymology

Japanese Wikipedia has an article on:

趾

Wikipedia ^ja

Kanji in this term
趾
あしゆび Hyōgai
kun'yomi

Noun

趾(あしゆび) • (ashiyubi) 

1. (anatomy) toe

Alternative forms

• 足(あし)指(ゆび) (ashiyubi), 足(あし)の指(ゆび) (ashi no yubi)

References

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

Korean

Hanja

趾 • (ji) (hangeul 지, revised ji, McCune–Reischauer chi, Yale ci)

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Vietnamese

Han character

趾: Hán Nôm readings: chỉ, nhảy

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