# 秭

| 秭 | U+79ED, &#31213; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-79ED |
| ← 秬 [U+79EC] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 秮 → [U+79EE] |

## Translingual
### Han character

秭 (Kangxi radical 115, 禾+5, 10 strokes, cangjie input 竹木中難竹 (HDLXH), four-corner 2592$_7$, composition ⿰禾𠂔)

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 852, character 5
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 25003
* Dae Jaweon: page 1276, character 8
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2594, character 14
* Unihan data for U+79ED

## Chinese

* 秭 (Written Standard Chinese)
* 秭 (Cantonese)

### Glyph origin

| | Old Chinese |
| 姊 | *ʔsiʔ |
| 秭 | *ʔsiʔ |
| 趀 | *sʰi |
| 笫 | *ʔsriʔ, *ʔsrɯʔ |
| 胏 | *ʔsrɯʔ |
| 柹 | *zrɯʔ |
| 柿 | *zrɯʔ |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ʔsiʔ) : semantic 禾 (“rice”) + phonetic 𠂔.

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): zǐ (zi$^3$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄗˇ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): zi$^2$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: zǐ
*** Zhuyin: ㄗˇ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: zǐh
*** Wade–Giles: tzŭ$^3$
*** Yale: dž
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tzyy
*** Palladius: цзы (czy)
*** Sinological IPA : /t͡sz̩²¹⁴/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: zi$^2$
*** Yale: jí
*** Cantonese Pinyin: dzi$^2$
*** Guangdong Romanization: ji$^2$
*** Sinological IPA : /t͡siː³⁵/
* Middle Chinese: tsijX
Rime :
| Character | 秭 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 精 (13) |
| Final (韻) | 脂 (15) |
| Tone (調) | Rising (X) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 將几切 |
| Baxter | tsijX |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /t͡siɪ$^X$/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /t͡si$^X$/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /t͡sjɪ$^X$/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /t͡si$^X$/ |
| Li Rong | /t͡si$^X$/ |
| Wang Li | /t͡si$^X$/ |
| Bernard Karlgren | /t͡si$^X$/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | zǐ |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | zi$^2$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*[ts][i]jʔ/
    (Zhengzhang): /*ʔsiʔ/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 秭 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | zǐ |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ tsij$^X$ › |
| Old Chinese | /*[ts][i]jʔ/ |
| English | a high number |
| 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 | 秭 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 17871 |
| Phonetic component | 秭 |
| Rime group | 脂 |
| Rime subdivision | 2 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 𡛷 |
| Old Chinese | /*ʔsiʔ/ |
| Notes | 依曶鼎金文右上爲屮來， 下粗筆象封堆， 即表禾積義，轉註加禾爲秭 |

### Definitions

秭
* a numeral that refers to various numbers, including 10$^9$, 10$^{12}$ and 10$^{24}$

### Compounds

* 秭歸／秭归 (Zǐguī, “Zigui”)
* 秭鳺／秭𱉎

### See also

Chinese numerals :
| 10$^4$ | 10$^8$ | 10$^{12}$ | 10$^{16}$ | 10$^{20}$ | 10$^{24}$ | 10$^{28}$ | 10$^{32}$ | 10$^{36}$ | 10$^{40}$ | 10$^{44}$ | 10$^{48}$ |
| 萬／万 (wàn) | 億／亿 (yì) | 兆 (zhào) (Taiwan) | 京 (jīng) (Taiwan) | 垓 (gāi) | 秭 (zǐ) | 穰 (ráng) | 溝／沟 (gōu) | 澗／涧 (jiàn) | 正 (zhèng) | 載／载 (zài) | 極／极 (jí) |
| 萬／万 (wàn) | 億／亿 (yì) | 萬億／万亿 (wànyì) (Mainland China) | 億億/亿亿 (Mainland China) | 垓 (gāi) | 秭 (zǐ) | 穰 (ráng) | 溝／沟 (gōu) | 澗／涧 (jiàn) | 正 (zhèng) | 載／载 (zài) | 極／极 (jí) |

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)

#### Readings

* Go-on: し (shi)
* Kan-on: し (shi)

### Number

* Kanji in this term
* 秭
* し Hyōgai
* on'yomi
秭(し) • (shi)
* A trillion trillion, 10$^{24}$, or a septillion of modern English in modern Japanese since 17th century.
    Synonym: 𥝱

## Korean
### Hanja

秭 • (ja) (hangeul 자, revised ja, McCune–Reischauer cha)
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