# 趾

| 趾 | U+8DBE, &#36286; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8DBE |
| ← 趽 [U+8DBD] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 趿 → [U+8DBF] |

## Translingual
### Han character

趾 (Kangxi radical 157, 足+4, 11 strokes, cangjie input 口一卜中一 (RMYLM), four-corner 6111$_0$, composition ⿰𧾷止)
* toe
* tracks, footprints

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 1222, character 15
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 37406
* Dae Jaweon: page 1693, character 37
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3691, character 1
* Unihan data for U+8DBE

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

| | Old Chinese |
| 祉 | *kʰlɯʔ |
| 址 | *kjɯʔ |
| 止 | *kjɯʔ |
| 趾 | *kjɯʔ |
| 芷 | *kjɯʔ |
| 沚 | *kjɯʔ |
| 阯 | *kjɯʔ |
| 齒 | *kʰjɯʔ |
| 紕 | *be, *pʰi, *kʰjɯʔ |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *kjɯʔ) : semantic 足 (“foot”) + phonetic 止 (OC *kjɯʔ)

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): zhǐ (zhi$^3$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄓˇ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): zi$^2$
* Hakka
    (Sixian, PFS): chṳ́
    (Hailu, HRS): zhi$^ˊ$
    (Meixian, Guangdong): zi$^3$
* Jin (Wiktionary): zi$^2$
* Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): zi$^3$
* Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): chí
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: zhǐ
*** Zhuyin: ㄓˇ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: jhǐh
*** Wade–Giles: chih$^3$
*** Yale: jř
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jyy
*** Palladius: чжи (čži)
*** Sinological IPA : /ʈ͡ʂʐ̩²¹⁴/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: zi$^2$
*** Yale: jí
*** Cantonese Pinyin: dzi$^2$
*** Guangdong Romanization: ji$^2$
*** Sinological IPA : /t͡siː³⁵/
* Hakka
** (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
*** Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chṳ́
*** Hakka Romanization System: zii$^ˋ$
*** Hagfa Pinyim: zi$^3$
*** Sinological IPA: /t͡sɨ³¹/
** (Hailu, incl. Zhudong)
*** Hakka Romanization System: zhi$^ˊ$
*** Sinological IPA: /t͡ʃi²⁴/
** (Meixian)
*** Guangdong: zi$^3$
*** Sinological IPA: /t͡sz̩³¹/
* Jin
** (Taiyuan)
*** Wiktionary: zi$^2$
*** Sinological IPA (old-style): /t͡sz̩⁵³/
* Puxian Min
** (Putian)
*** Pouseng Ping'ing: zi$^3$
*** Sinological IPA : /t͡si⁴⁵³/
** (Xianyou)
*** Pouseng Ping'ing: zi$^3$
*** Sinological IPA : /t͡si³³²/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien: Quanzhou, General Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chí
*** Tâi-lô: tsí
*** Phofsit Daibuun: cie
*** IPA (Taipei, Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /t͡si⁵³/
*** IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡si⁴¹/
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡si⁵⁵⁴/
* Middle Chinese: tsyiX
Rime :
| Character | 趾 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 章 (23) |
| Final (韻) | 之 (19) |
| Tone (調) | Rising (X) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 諸市切 |
| Baxter | tsyiX |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /t͡ɕɨ$^X$/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /t͡ɕɨ$^X$/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /t͡ɕie$^X$/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /cɨ$^X$/ |
| Li Rong | /t͡ɕiə$^X$/ |
| Wang Li | /t͡ɕĭə$^X$/ |
| Bernhard Karlgren | /t͡ɕi$^X$/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | zhǐ |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | zi$^2$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*təʔ/
    (Zhengzhang): /*kjɯʔ/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 趾 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | zhǐ |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ tsyi$^X$ › |
| Old Chinese | /*təʔ/ |
| English | foot, heel, toe |
| 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 | 趾 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 17298 |
| Phonetic component | 止 |
| Rime group | 之 |
| Rime subdivision | 0 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 止 |
| Old Chinese | /*kjɯʔ/ |
| Notes | 趾轉註字 |

### Definitions

趾
* (anatomy) toe; foot
* track; footprint

### Compounds

* 交趾 (Jiāozhǐ)
* 交趾燒 / 交趾烧
* 交趾陶
* 刖趾適屨 / 刖趾适屦
* 削趾適屨 / 削趾适屦
* 圓顱方趾 / 圆颅方趾
* 基趾
* 大腳趾 / 大脚趾 (dàjiǎozhǐ)
* 大趾 (dàzhǐ)
* 截趾適屨 / 截趾适屦
* 拇趾 (mǔzhǐ)
* 敢攀玉趾
* 方趾圓顱 / 方趾圆颅
* 步趾
* 滅趾 / 灭趾
* 玄趾
* 玉趾
* 繫趾 / 系趾
* 腳趾 / 脚趾 (jiǎozhǐ)
* 腳趾公 / 脚趾公
* 趾氣高揚 / 趾气高扬
* 趾甲 (zhǐjiǎ)
* 趾紋 / 趾纹
* 趾頭 / 趾头 (zhǐtou)
* 趾骨 (zhǐgǔ)
* 趾高氣揚 / 趾高气扬 (zhǐgāoqìyáng)
* 麟之趾
* 麟趾呈祥

### References

* “趾”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
* 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “趾”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 309.

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
* toe

#### Readings

* Go-on: し (shi)
* Kan-on: し (shi)
* Kun: あしゆび (ashiyubi, 趾)、あと (ato, 趾)、もと (moto)

### Etymology

* Kanji in this term
* 趾
* あしゆび Hyōgai
* kun'yomi

### Noun

趾(あしゆび) • (ashiyubi)
* (anatomy) toe

#### Alternative forms

* 足(あし)指(ゆび) (ashiyubi), 足(あし)の指(ゆび) (ashi no yubi)

## Korean
### Hanja

趾 • (ji) (hangeul 지, revised ji, McCune–Reischauer chi, Yale ci)
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## Vietnamese
### Han character

趾: Hán Nôm readings: chỉ, nhảy
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