# 孳

| 孳 | U+5B73, &#23411; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5B73 |
| ← 孲 [U+5B72] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 孴 → [U+5B74] |

## Translingual
### Han character

孳 (Kangxi radical 39, 子+10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 廿女戈木 (TVID) or 難廿女戈木 (XTVID), four-corner 4440$_7$, composition ⿱兹子)
* breed in large numbers

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 280, character 17
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7011
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1017, character 9
* Unihan data for U+5B73

## Bailang
### Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan. Compare Tibetan མཛའ (mdza'), Old Chinese 慈 (OC *zɯ).

### Adjective

孳 (*dziəh)
* loving

### References

* Hill, Nathan W. (2017) “Songs of the Bailang: A New Transcription with Etymological Commentary”, in Bulletin de l'École française d'Extrême-Orient‎, volume 103, pages 386—429

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

| | Old Chinese |
| 糍 | *zi |
| 茲 | *ʔsɯ, *zɯ |
| 滋 | *ʔsɯ |
| 孳 | *ʔsɯ, *zɯs |
| 嵫 | *ʔsɯ |
| 嗞 | *ʔsɯ |
| 鎡 | *ʔsɯ |
| 鰦 | *ʔsɯ |
| 鶿 | *ʔsɯ, *zɯ |
| 稵 | *ʔsɯ, *ʔsɯw |
| 螆 | *sʰɯs |
| 慈 | *zɯ |
| 鷀 | *zɯ |
| 磁 | *zɯ |
| 礠 | *zlɯ |
| 濨 | *zlɯ |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ʔsɯ, *zɯs) : phonetic 兹 (OC *ʔsɯ, *zɯ) + semantic 子 (“child”).

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): zī (zi$^1$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄗ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): zi$^1$
* Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): chu
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: zī
*** Zhuyin: ㄗ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: zih
*** Wade–Giles: tzŭ$^1$
*** Yale: dz̄
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tzy
*** Palladius: цзы (czy)
*** Sinological IPA : /t͡sz̩⁵⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: zi$^1$
*** Yale: jī
*** Cantonese Pinyin: dzi$^1$
*** Guangdong Romanization: ji$^1$
*** Sinological IPA : /t͡siː⁵⁵/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chu
*** Tâi-lô: tsu
*** Phofsit Daibuun: zw
*** IPA (Xiamen): /t͡su⁴⁴/
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡su³³/
*** IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡su⁴⁴/
*** IPA (Taipei): /t͡su⁴⁴/
*** IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡su⁴⁴/
* Middle Chinese: tsi, dziH
Rime :
| Character | 孳 | 孳 |
| Reading # | 1/2 | 2/2 |
| Initial (聲) | 精 (13) | 從 (15) |
| Final (韻) | 之 (19) | 之 (19) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) | Departing (H) |
| Openness (開合) | Open | Open |
| Division (等) | III | III |
| Fanqie | 子之切 | 疾置切 |
| Baxter | tsi | dziH |
| Reconstructions |||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /t͡sɨ/ | /d͡zɨ$^H$/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /t͡sɨ/ | /d͡zɨ$^H$/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /t͡sie/ | /d͡zie$^H$/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /t͡sɨ/ | /d͡zɨ$^H$/ |
| Li Rong | /t͡siə/ | /d͡ziə$^H$/ |
| Wang Li | /t͡sĭə/ | /d͡zĭə$^H$/ |
| Bernard Karlgren | /t͡si/ | /d͡zʱi$^H$/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | zī | zì |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | zi$^1$ | zi$^6$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Zhengzhang): /*ʔsɯ/, /*zɯs/
Zhengzhang system (2003) :
| Character | 孳 | 孳 |
| Reading # | 1/2 | 2/2 |
| No. | 17837 | 17852 |
| Phonetic component | 兹 | 兹 |
| Rime group | 之 | 之 |
| Rime subdivision | 0 | 0 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 兹 | 字 |
| Old Chinese | /*ʔsɯ/ | /*zɯs/ |

### Definitions

孳
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### Compounds

* 孳乳 (zīrǔ)
* 孳孳 (zīzī)
* 孳孳不倦
* 孳尾
* 孳息 (zīxī)
* 孳生 (zīshēng)
* 孳育
* 孳茂
* 孳萌
* 孳蔓
* 孳衍

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
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#### Readings

* On (unclassified): し (shi)、じ (ji)
* Kun: うむ (umu)、しげる (shigeru)

#### Compounds

* 孳尾(つる)む (tsurumu)

## Korean
### Hanja

孳 • (ja) (hangeul 자, revised ja, McCune–Reischauer cha)
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## Vietnamese
### Han character

孳: Hán Nôm readings: tư
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