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

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/

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

gardenia; Cape jasmine (Gardenia jasminoides)
(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)‎^[1], 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

梔

(Hyōgai kanji)

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

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