籽

籽	U+7C7D, 籽 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7C7D

← 籼
[U+7C7C]

CJK Unified Ideographs

籾 →
[U+7C7E]

Translingual

Han character

籽 (Kangxi radical 119, 米+3, 9 strokes, cangjie input 火木弓木 (FDND), four-corner 9794₇, composition ⿰米子)

References

Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 907, character 5
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 26852
Dae Jaweon: page 1332, character 17
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3142, character 7
Unihan data for U+7C7D

Chinese

trad.		籽
simp. ^#		籽
2nd round simp.		子

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
孜	*ʔslɯ
仔	ʔslɯ, ʔslɯʔ
孖	ʔslɯ, zlɯs
子	*ʔslɯʔ
虸	*ʔslɯʔ
耔	*ʔslɯʔ
秄	*ʔslɯʔ
杍	*ʔslɯʔ
籽	*ʔslɯʔ
字	*zlɯs
茡	*zlɯs
芓	*zlɯs
牸	*zlɯs
李	*rɯʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ʔslɯʔ): semantic 米 (“rice; grain”) + phonetic 子 (OC *ʔslɯʔ).

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “same word as 子?”)

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): zǐ (zi³)

(Zhuyin): ㄗˇ
Cantonese (Jyutping): zi²
Hakka (Sixian, PFS): chṳ́
Jin (Wiktionary): zi²
Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): zi³
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): chí / chú / chír

(Teochew, Peng'im): zi² / ze² / zu²
Wu (Northern, Wugniu): ⁵tsy / ³tsy

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: zǐ
  - Zhuyin: ㄗˇ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: zǐh
  - Wade–Giles: tzŭ³
  - Yale: dž
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tzyy
  - Palladius: цзы (czy)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sz̩²¹⁴/
- (Standard Chinese, erhua-ed) (籽兒 / 籽儿)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: zǐr
  - Zhuyin: ㄗˇㄦ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: zǐhr
  - Wade–Giles: tzŭ³-ʼrh
  - Yale: dzǐr
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tzeel
  - Palladius: цзыр (czyr)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sz̩ɻ²¹⁴/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - 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/
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: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chí
  - Tâi-lô: tsí
  - Phofsit Daibuun: cie
  - IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei): /t͡si⁵³/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡si⁴¹/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡si⁵⁵⁴/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chú
  - Tâi-lô: tsú
  - Phofsit Daibuun: zuo
  - IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /t͡su⁵³/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chír
  - Tâi-lô: tsír
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sɯ⁵⁵⁴/

Note:

chí - vernacular;
chú/chír - literary.

(Teochew)
- Peng'im: zi² / ze² / zu²
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tsí / tsṳ́ / tsú
- Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡si⁵²/, /t͡sɯ⁵²/, /t͡su⁵²/

Wu
- (Northern: Shanghai)
  - Wugniu: ⁵tsy
  - MiniDict: tsy^去
  - Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ²tsr
  - Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /t͡sz̩³⁴/
- (Northern: Suzhou, Jiaxing)
  - Wugniu: ³tsy
  - MiniDict: tsy^上
  - Sinological IPA (Suzhou): /t͡sz̩⁵¹/
  - Sinological IPA (Jiaxing): /t͡sz̩⁴³³/

Old Chinese
(Zhengzhang): /*ʔslɯʔ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	籽
Reading #	1/1
No.	17863
Phonetic component	子
Rime group	之
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	子
Old Chinese	/*ʔslɯʔ/
Notes	子晚起分化字

Definitions

籽

seed; seed-like fruit

Synonyms

(Eastern Min) 子子

Compounds

棉籽 (miánzǐ)
油菜籽 (yóucàizǐ)
籽棉
籽種 / 籽种 (zǐzhǒng)
籽粒 (zǐlì)
罌粟籽 / 罂粟籽 (yīngsùzǐ)
胡麻籽
芥菜籽 (jiècàizǐ)
茶籽 (cházǐ)
茴香籽
菜籽 (càizǐ)
葵花籽 (kuíhuāzǐ)
蒔蘿籽 / 莳萝籽
蓖麻籽

Japanese

Kanji

籽

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

On (unclassified): し (shi)

Vietnamese

Han character

籽: Hán Nôm readings: tử

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