# 緇

| 緇 | U+7DC7, &#32199; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7DC7 |
| ← 緆 [U+7DC6] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 緈 → [U+7DC8] |
| 緇 | U+2F96E, &#194926; CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-2F96E |
| ← 䌁 [U+2F96D] | CJK Compatibility Ideographs Supplement | 縂 → [U+2F96F] |

## Translingual
### Han character

緇 (Kangxi radical 120, 糸+8, 14 strokes, cangjie input 女火女女田 (VFVVW), four-corner 2296$_3$, composition ⿰糹甾)

#### Derived characters

* 𫊄

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 929, character 5
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27600
* Dae Jaweon: page 1366, character 14
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3422, character 3
* Unihan data for U+7DC7
* Unihan data for U+2F96E

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

| | Old Chinese |
| 輜 | *ʔsrɯ, *sʰrɯ |
| 淄 | *ʔsrɯ |
| 錙 | *ʔsrɯ |
| 緇 | *ʔsrɯ |
| 甾 | *ʔsrɯ |
| 菑 | *ʔsrɯ, *ʔsɯː, *ʔsɯː |
| 鶅 | *ʔsrɯ, *ʔsrɯs |
| 椔 | *ʔsrɯ, *ʔsrɯs |
| 鯔 | *ʔsrɯ |

### Etymology

緇 (OC *tsrə) "black < color of burnt soil?", possibly same word as 菑 (OC *tsrə) "field cleared by slash and burn" (Schuessler, 2007). See there for etymology.

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): zī (zi$^1$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄗ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): zi$^1$
* 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/
* Middle Chinese: tsri
Rime :
| Character | 緇 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 莊 (18) |
| Final (韻) | 之 (19) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 側持切 |
| Baxter | tsri |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /t͡ʃɨ/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /ʈ͡ʂɨ/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /t͡ʃie/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /ʈ͡ʂɨ/ |
| Li Rong | /t͡ʃiə/ |
| Wang Li | /t͡ʃĭə/ |
| Bernard Karlgren | /ʈ͡ʂi/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | zhī |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | zi$^1$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*[ts]rə/
    (Zhengzhang): /*ʔsrɯ/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 緇 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | zī |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ tsri › |
| Old Chinese | /*[ts]rə/ |
| English | black |
| 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 | 緇 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 17823 |
| Phonetic component | 甾 |
| Rime group | 之 |
| Rime subdivision | 0 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 葘 |
| Old Chinese | /*ʔsrɯ/ |

### Definitions

緇
* (literary) to blacken
    From: The Analects of Confucius, c. 475 – 221 BCE
    Bù yuē bái hū, niè ér bù zī. [Pinyin]
    Is it not said, that, if a thing be really white, it may be steeped in a dark fluid without being made black?
* (literary) black
    From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11th – 7th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version
    zī yī zhī yí xī [Pinyin]
    How well do the black robes befit you!

#### Compounds

* 削髮披緇／削发披缁
* 剪髮披緇／剪发披缁
* 披緇／披缁
* 涅而不緇／涅而不缁 (niè'érbùzī)
* 素衣化緇／素衣化缁
* 緇塵／缁尘
* 緇服／缁服
* 緇流／缁流
* 緇衣／缁衣
* 緇門／缁门
* 緇黃／缁黄

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
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#### Readings

* On (unclassified): し (shi)
* Kun: くろ (kuro)

## Korean
### Hanja

緇 • (chi) (hangeul 치, revised chi, McCune–Reischauer ch'i, Yale chi)
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