# 雉

| 雉 | U+96C9, &#38601; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-96C9 |
| ← 雈 [U+96C8] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 雊 → [U+96CA] |

## Translingual
### Han character

雉 (Kangxi radical 172, 隹+5, 13 strokes, cangjie input 人大人土 (OKOG), four-corner 8041$_4$, composition ⿰矢隹)

#### Derived characters

* 𢶾, 𫡍, 𪨅, 𱚫, 薙, 䉜, 𭼯, 𣜫

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 1365, character 24
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 41987
* Dae Jaweon: page 1870, character 8
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4097, character 1
* Unihan data for U+96C9

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

| | Old Chinese |
| 彘 | *l'eds |
| 璏 | *l'eds, *ɢʷleds, *ɢʷled |
| 薙 | *l̥ʰiːs, *ljiʔ, *l'iʔ |
| 知 | *ʔl'e |
| 蜘 | *te |
| 智 | *ʔl'es |
| 鼅 | *te |
| 潪 | *teɡs, *deɡ |
| 踟 | *de |
| 雉 | *l'iʔ |
| 矢 | *hliʔ |
| 痴 | *l̥ʰɯ |

### Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-rik ~ *s-ryak (“pheasant, partridge”) (STEDT; Schuessler, 2007).
* Inside Chinese, cognate with 翟 (OC *r'aːwɢ, *l'eːwɢ, “long-tailed pheasant”) and 雒 (OC *ɡ·raːɡ).
* Outside Chinese, cognate with Burmese ရစ် (rac), Tibetan སྲེག་པ (sreg pa, “partridge”), Mizo va-hrit. & possibly Chepang [script needed] (rut-waʔ).

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): zhì (zhi$^4$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄓˋ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): zi$^6$
* Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): tǐ / tī / thī
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: zhì
*** Zhuyin: ㄓˋ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: jhìh
*** Wade–Giles: chih$^4$
*** Yale: jr̀
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jyh
*** Palladius: чжи (čži)
*** Sinological IPA : /ʈ͡ʂʐ̩⁵¹/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: zi$^6$
*** Yale: jih
*** Cantonese Pinyin: dzi$^6$
*** Guangdong Romanization: ji$^6$
*** Sinological IPA : /t͡siː²²/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tǐ
*** Tâi-lô: tǐ
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /ti²²/
** (Hokkien: variant in Taiwan, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tī
*** Tâi-lô: tī
*** Phofsit Daibuun: di
*** IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /ti³³/
*** IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /ti²²/
** (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: thī
*** Tâi-lô: thī
*** Phofsit Daibuun: ti
*** IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /tʰi³³/
* Middle Chinese: drijX
Rime :
| Character | 雉 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 澄 (11) |
| Final (韻) | 脂 (17) |
| Tone (調) | Rising (X) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 直几切 |
| Baxter | drijX |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /ɖˠiɪ$^X$/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /ɖᵚi$^X$/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /ȡiɪ$^X$/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /ɖji$^X$/ |
| Li Rong | /ȡji$^X$/ |
| Wang Li | /ȡi$^X$/ |
| Bernhard Karlgren | /ȡʱi$^X$/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | zhì |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | zi$^6$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*lr[i]jʔ/
    (Zhengzhang): /*l'iʔ/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 雉 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | zhì |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ drij$^X$ › |
| Old Chinese | /*lr[i]jʔ/ |
| English | pheasant |
| 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 | 雉 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 11502 |
| Phonetic component | 矢 |
| Rime group | 脂 |
| Rime subdivision | 2 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 雉 |
| Old Chinese | /*l'iʔ/ |

### Definitions

雉
* pheasant
    From: 3rd–5th century, Sunzi Suanjing
    Jīn yǒu zhì, tù tóng lóng, shàng yǒu sānshíwǔ tóu, xià yǒu jiǔshísì zú. Wèn zhì, tù gè jǐhé. [Pinyin]
    There are pheasants and hares in a cage, with thirty-five heads on top and ninety-four feet below. We ask that how many pheasants and hares are there each.
* crenellated wall
* an ancient Chinese measuring unit of the area of walls equivalent to three chi in length by one chi in height
    From: Commentary of Zuo, c. 4th century BCE
    Dū chéng guò bǎi zhì, guó zhī hài yě. [Pinyin]
    A city with walls larger than 300 chi by 1 chi endangers the country.

#### Synonyms

| Variety | Location | Words |
| Classical Chinese | Classical Chinese | 雉 |
| Formal (Written Standard Chinese) | Formal (Written Standard Chinese) | 雉, 雉雞, 野雞 |
| Northeastern Mandarin | Harbin | 野雞, 山雞 |
| Jilu Mandarin | Jinan | 野雞 |
| Jiaoliao Mandarin | Yantai (Muping) | 野雞 |
| Central Plains Mandarin | Luoyang | 野雞 |
| Central Plains Mandarin | Wanrong | 野雞 |
| Central Plains Mandarin | Xi'an | 野雞 |
| Central Plains Mandarin | Xining | 野雞, 馬班子 |
| Central Plains Mandarin | Xuzhou | 野雞 |
| Lanyin Mandarin | Yinchuan | 野雞 |
| Lanyin Mandarin | Ürümqi | 野雞 |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Chengdu | 野雞 |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Wuhan | 野雞, 野雞子 |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Guiyang | 野雞, 慶雞, 錦雞 |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Liuzhou | 野雞, 山雞 |
| Jianghuai Mandarin | Nanjing | 野雞, 山雞 |
| Jianghuai Mandarin | Yangzhou | 野雞 |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou | 野雞, 山雞, 雉雞 |
| Cantonese | Hong Kong | 山雞 |
| Cantonese | Dongguan | 山雞 |
| Gan | Nanchang | 野雞 |
| Gan | Lichuan | 野雞 |
| Gan | Pingxiang | 野雞 |
| Hakka | Meixian | 野雞, 山雞, 雉雞 |
| Hakka | Yudu | 野雞 |
| Huizhou | Jixi | 山雞 |
| Jin | Taiyuan | 野雞 |
| Jin | Xinzhou | 野雞 |
| Northern Min | Jian'ou | 山雞 |
| Eastern Min | Fuzhou | 野雞 |
| Southern Min | Xiamen | 野雞, 山雞 |
| Southern Min | Quanzhou | 野雞, 山雞 |
| Southern Min | Jinjiang | 雉雞 |
| Southern Min | Yongchun | 山雞 |
| Southern Min | Zhangzhou | 野雞, 山雞 |
| Southern Min | Shantou | 山雞 |
| Southern Min | Leizhou | 山雞 |
| Southern Min | Haikou | 山雞 |
| Puxian Min | Putian | 山雞 |
| Puxian Min | Xianyou | 山雞 |
| Southern Pinghua | Nanning (Tingzi) | 山雞 |
| Wu | Shanghai | 野雞 |
| Wu | Shanghai (Chongming) | 野雞 |
| Wu | Suzhou | 野雞 |
| Wu | Danyang | 野雞 |
| Wu | Hangzhou | 野雞 |
| Wu | Ningbo | 野雞 |
| Wu | Wenzhou | 野雞, 山雞 |
| Xiang | Changsha | 野雞 |
| Xiang | Loudi | 野雞 |

#### Compounds

* 兔羅雉離 / 兔罗雉离
* 呼盧喝雉 / 呼卢喝雉
* 喝雉呼盧 / 喝雉呼卢
* 基雉
* 如皋射雉
* 宮雉 / 宫雉
* 家雞野雉 / 家鸡野雉
* 帝雉 (dìzhì)
* 百雉
* 矲雉 / 𰦜雉
* 錦雉之衣 / 锦雉之衣
* 雄雉
* 雉堞 (zhìdié)
* 雉媒
* 雉尾小生
* 雉尾扇
* 雉求牡匹
* 雉經 / 雉经
* 雉門 / 雉门
* 雉雊
* 雉雉
* 雉雞 / 雉鸡 (zhìjī)
* 雉雞翎 / 雉鸡翎
* 雉鳩 / 雉鸠 (zhìjiū)
* 鸐雉 / 𱊱雉 (dízhì)
* 麝雉 (shèzhì)

### References

* “雉”, 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)
* green pheasant

#### Readings

* Go-on: じ (ji)
* Kan-on: ち (chi)
* Kun: きじ (kiji, 雉)、かき (kaki)

### Etymology

* Kanji in this term
* 雉
* きじ Hyōgai
* kun'yomi
* Alternative spelling
* 雉子
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

### Pronunciation

* (Tokyo) きじ [kìjí] (Heiban – [0])
* IPA: [kʲiʑi]

### Noun

雉(きじ) or 雉(キジ) • (kiji)
* green pheasant (Phasianus versicolor)
* pheasant

#### Usage notes

As with many terms that name organisms, this term is often spelled in katakana, especially in biological contexts (where katakana is customary), as キジ.

#### Derived terms

* 雉鳩(キジバト) (kijibato)
* 雉蓆(キジムシロ) (kijimushiro)
* 高麗雉(コウライキジ) (kōraikiji)
* 虹雉(ニジキジ) (nijikiji)
* 紅雉(ベニキジ) (benikiji)
* 帝雉(ミカドキジ) (mikadokiji)
* 蓑雉(ミノキジ) (minokiji)

### References

* ↑ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN
* ↑ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

## Korean
### Hanja

雉 (eum 치 (chi))
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## Vietnamese
### Han character

雉: Hán Nôm readings: trĩ
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