# 觜

| 觜 | U+89DC, &#35292; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-89DC |
| ← 觛 [U+89DB] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 觝 → [U+89DD] |

## Translingual
### Han character

觜 (Kangxi radical 148, 角+6, 13 strokes, cangjie input 卜心弓月土 (YPNBG) or 卜心弓月手 (YPNBQ), four-corner 2122$_7$, composition ⿱此角)

#### Derived characters

* 嘴, 蟕, 𪬰, 𣚀, 𫙾

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 1141, character 8
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 35050
* Dae Jaweon: page 1608, character 9
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3924, character 2
* Unihan data for U+89DC

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

* Historical forms of the character 觜
* Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
* Small seal script
| | Old Chinese |
| 些 | *saːls, *sjaːl, *seːs |
| 跐 | *ʔsreːʔ, *ʔseʔ, *sʰeʔ, *ʔsreʔ |
| 柴 | *zreː |
| 祡 | *zreː |
| 茈 | *zreː, *ʔseʔ, *ze |
| 眦 | *zreːs |
| 砦 | *zraːds |
| 寨 | *zraːds, *slɯːɡ |
| 啙 | *ʔseː, *zeːʔ, *ʔseʔ |
| 泚 | *sʰeːʔ, *sʰeʔ |
| 玼 | *sʰeːʔ, *sʰeʔ, *ze |
| 皉 | *sʰeːʔ |
| 鮆 | *zeːʔ, *ʔse |
| 眥 | *zeːs, *zes |
| 貲 | *ʔse |
| 髭 | *ʔse |
| 頾 | *ʔse |
| 訾 | *ʔse, *ʔseʔ |
| 鴜 | *ʔse, *ze |
| 鈭 | *ʔse, *sʰe |
| 姕 | *ʔse, *sʰe, *ze |
| 觜 | *ʔse, *ʔse, *ʔseʔ |
| 紫 | *ʔseʔ |
| 訿 | *ʔseʔ |
| 呰 | *ʔseʔ |
| 嘴 | *ʔseʔ |
| 雌 | *sʰe |
| 此 | *sʰeʔ |
| 佌 | *sʰeʔ, *seʔ |
| 庛 | *sʰes |
| 疵 | *ze |
| 骴 | *ze, *zes |
| 胔 | *ze, *zes |
| 飺 | *ze |
| 齜 | *ʔsre |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ʔse, *ʔse, *ʔseʔ) : phonetic 此 (OC *sʰeʔ) + semantic 角.

### Etymology 1

* For pronunciation and definitions of 觜 – see 嘴 (“mouth; etc.”). (This character is a variant form of 嘴).

### Etymology 2
#### 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: tsje, tsje
Rime :
| Character | 觜 | 觜 |
| Reading # | 1/3 | 2/3 |
| Initial (聲) | 精 (13) | 精 (13) |
| Final (韻) | 支 (11) | 支 (11) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open | Open |
| Division (等) | III | III |
| Fanqie | 即移切 | 姊移切 |
| Baxter | tsje | tsje |
| Reconstructions |||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /t͡siᴇ/ | /t͡siᴇ/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /t͡siɛ/ | /t͡siɛ/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /t͡sjɛ/ | /t͡sjɛ/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /t͡siə̆/ | /t͡siə̆/ |
| Li Rong | /t͡sie/ | /t͡sie/ |
| Wang Li | /t͡sǐe/ | /t͡sǐe/ |
| Bernard Karlgren | /t͡sie̯/ | /t͡sie̯/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | zī | zī |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | zi$^1$ | zi$^1$ |

#### Definitions

觜
* Turtle Beak, one of the twenty-eight lunar mansions of Chinese astronomy
* the horn-shaped feathers on the head of an owl

#### Compounds

* 凍凌觜臉／冻凌觜脸
* 觜蠵
* 觜觿
* 觜鼻
* 麟角鳳觜／麟角凤觜

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
* beak; bill

#### Readings

From Middle Chinese 觜 (MC tsjweX); compare Mandarin 觜 (zuǐ):
* Go-on: すい (sui)
* Kan-on: すい (sui)
* Kan’yō-on: し (shi)
From Middle Chinese 觜 (MC tsje|tsje); compare Mandarin 觜 (zī):
* Go-on: し (shi)
* Kan-on: し (shi)
From native Japanese roots:
* Kun: くちばし (kuchibashi, 觜)、はし (hashi, 觜)

### Definitions

* Kanji in this term
* 觜
* はし Hyōgai
* kun'yomi
For pronunciation and definitions of 觜 – see the following entry. :
| 【嘴はし】H | [noun] (anatomy) beak; bill |
(This term, 觜, is an alternative spelling of the above term.) :

## Korean
### Hanja

觜 • (ja, chwi) (hangeul 자, 취, revised ja, chwi, McCune–Reischauer cha, ch'wi, Yale ca, chwi)
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