# 滋

| 滋 | U+6ECB, &#28363; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6ECB |
| ← 滊 [U+6ECA] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 滌 → [U+6ECC] |
| 滋 | U+FA99, &#64153; CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-FA99 |
| ← 滛 [U+FA98] | CJK Compatibility Ideographs | 漢 → [U+FA9A] |
| 滋 | U+2F90B, &#194827; CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-2F90B |
| ← 㴳 [U+2F90A] | CJK Compatibility Ideographs Supplement | 滇 → [U+2F90C] |

## Translingual
### Han character

* U+6ECB 滋 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 水廿女戈 (ETVI), four-corner 3813$_2$, composition ⿰氵兹)
* U+FA99 滋 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 水卜戈戈 (EYII), composition ⿰氵玆)

#### Derived characters

* 𬵱 (Contains ⿰氵玆 (U+FA99))

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 642, character 15
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17919
* Dae Jaweon: page 1049, character 19
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1686, character 6
* Unihan data for U+6ECB
* Unihan data for U+FA99
* Unihan data for U+2F90B

## 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) : semantic 水 + phonetic 茲 (OC *ʔsɯ, *zɯ).

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): zī (zi$^1$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄗ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): zi$^1$
* Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): chir / 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: Quanzhou)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chir
*** Tâi-lô: tsir
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sɯ³³/
** (Hokkien: General Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chu
*** Tâi-lô: tsu
*** Phofsit Daibuun: zw
*** IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung, Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /t͡su⁴⁴/
* Middle Chinese: tsi
Rime :
| Character | 滋 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 精 (13) |
| Final (韻) | 之 (19) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 子之切 |
| Baxter | tsi |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /t͡sɨ/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /t͡sɨ/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /t͡sie/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /t͡sɨ/ |
| Li Rong | /t͡siə/ |
| Wang Li | /t͡sĭə/ |
| Bernard Karlgren | /t͡si/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | zī |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | zi$^1$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*[ts]ə/
    (Zhengzhang): /*ʔsɯ/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 滋 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | zī |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ tsi › |
| Old Chinese | /*[ts]ə/ |
| English | abundant |
| 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 | 滋 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 17836 |
| Phonetic component | 兹 |
| Rime group | 之 |
| Rime subdivision | 0 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 兹 |
| Old Chinese | /*ʔsɯ/ |

### Definitions

滋
* to grow; to multiply
* to cause
* to increase
* taste
* (colloquial) to spurt

### Compounds

* 不是滋味 (bùshì zīwèi)
* 個中滋味／个中滋味
* 愛滋病／爱滋病 (àizībìng)
* 日滋月益
* 日益月滋
* 暴力滋擾／暴力滋扰
* 松滋 (Sōngzī)
* 樂滋滋／乐滋滋 (lèzīzī)
* 樹德務滋／树德务滋
* 殊滋異味／殊滋异味
* 滋事 (zīshì)
* 滋味 (zīwèi)
* 滋味兒／滋味儿 (zīwèir)
* 滋擾／滋扰 (zīrǎo)
* 滋潤／滋润 (zīrùn)
* 滋生 (zīshēng)
* 滋育
* 滋芽
* 滋蔓 (zīmàn)
* 滋蔓難圖／滋蔓难图
* 滋補／滋补 (zībǔ)
* 滋長／滋长 (zīzhǎng)
* 滋養／滋养 (zīyǎng)
* 滋養品／滋养品
* 甘露滋心
* 聚眾滋事／聚众滋事
* 華爾滋／华尔滋
* 蕃滋
* 飛滋／飞滋

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Fourth grade kyōiku kanji)
* nourishment

#### Readings

* Go-on: し (shi)
* Kan-on: し (shi)
* Kan’yō-on: じ (ji, Jōyō)
* Kun: しげる (shigeru, 滋る)、ます (masu, 滋す)、ますます (masumasu)

## Korean
### Hanja

滋 (eumhun 불을 자 (bureul ja))
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#### Compounds

* 재미 (滋味, jaemi, “fun,enjoyment”)

## Vietnamese
### Han character

滋: Hán Nôm readings: tư
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