# 軹

| 軹 | U+8EF9, &#36601; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8EF9 |
| ← 軸 [U+8EF8] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 軺 → [U+8EFA] |

## Translingual
### Han character

軹 (Kangxi radical 159, 車+5, 12 strokes, cangjie input 十十口金 (JJRC), four-corner 5608$_0$, composition ⿰車只)
* the end of an axle
* divergent

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 1242, character 15
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 38271
* Dae Jaweon: page 1718, character 6
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3521, character 3
* Unihan data for U+8EF9

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

| | Old Chinese |
| 只 | *klje, *kljeʔ |
| 胑 | *klje |
| 疻 | *klje, *klji |
| 軹 | *kljeʔ |
| 咫 | *kljeʔ |
| 枳 | *kljeʔ, *kleʔ |
| 抧 | *kljeʔ |
| 伿 | *kljes, *les |
| 齞 | *ŋleːnʔ |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *kljeʔ) : semantic 車 (“cart”) + phonetic 只 (OC *klje, *kljeʔ).

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): zhǐ (zhi$^3$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄓˇ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): zi$^2$
* Eastern Min (BUC): cī
* 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/
* Eastern Min
** (Fuzhou)
*** Bàng-uâ-cê: cī
*** Sinological IPA : /t͡si³³/
* Puxian Min
** (Putian)
*** Pouseng Ping'ing: zi$^3$
*** Sinological IPA : /t͡si⁴⁵³/
** (Xianyou)
*** Pouseng Ping'ing: zi$^3$
*** Sinological IPA : /t͡si³³²/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chí
*** Tâi-lô: tsí
*** Phofsit Daibuun: cie
*** IPA (Xiamen): /t͡si⁵³/
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡si⁵⁵⁴/
*** IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡si⁵³/
*** IPA (Taipei): /t͡si⁵³/
*** IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡si⁴¹/
* Middle Chinese: tsyeX
Rime :
| Character | 軹 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 章 (23) |
| Final (韻) | 支 (11) |
| Tone (調) | Rising (X) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 諸氏切 |
| Baxter | tsyeX |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /t͡ɕiᴇ$^X$/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /t͡ɕiɛ$^X$/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /t͡ɕjɛ$^X$/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /ciə̆$^X$/ |
| Li Rong | /t͡ɕie$^X$/ |
| Wang Li | /t͡ɕǐe$^X$/ |
| Bernhard Karlgren | /t͡ɕie̯$^X$/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | zhǐ |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | zi$^2$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Zhengzhang): /*kljeʔ/
Zhengzhang system (2003) :
| Character | 軹 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 17308 |
| Phonetic component | 只 |
| Rime group | 支 |
| Rime subdivision | 0 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 紙 |
| Old Chinese | /*kljeʔ/ |

### Definitions

軹
* (literary) end of an axle

### Compounds

* 軹城 / 轵城 (Zhǐchéng, “Zhicheng”)
* 軹道 / 轵道 (Zhǐ Dào)
* 軹首蛇 / 轵首蛇

### References

* William Campbell (1913) A dictionary of the Amoy vernacular spoken throughout the prefectures of Chin-Chiu, Chiang-Chiu and Formosa (in Hokkien), 8th edition, Tainan: Taiwan Church Press, published 1961, →OCLC, page 51.
* 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “轵”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 309.
* “軹”, 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–

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
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#### Readings

* On (unclassified): し (shi)、き (ki)、しん (shin)
* Kun: あな (ana)、じくがしら (jikugashira)

## Korean
### Hanja

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

軹: Hán Việt readings: chỉ
* chữ Hán form of chỉ (“axle end”).

#### References

* ↑ Trần (1999).
* ↑ Nguyễn (1974).
* ↑ Thiều Chửu (1942).