枝 (Kangxi radical 75,木 +4, 8 strokes,cangjie input 木十水 (DJE ),four-corner 44947 ,composition ⿰木 支 )
Kangxi Dictionary:page 516 , character 12 Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14557 Dae Jaweon: page 904, character 6 Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1165, character 7 Unihan data for U+679D Old Chinese 支 *kje 枝 *kje 肢 *kje 汥 *kje, *ɡe, *ɡres 衼 *kje 馶 *kje, *qʰjes, *kes, *ɡe 鳷 *kje 忮 *kjes 伎 *kjes, *ɡe, *ɡreʔ 豉 *ɡjes 翅 *qʰjes 翄 *qʰjes, *ɡe 妓 *kre, *ɡreʔ 庋 *kreʔ, *kʷreʔ 跂 *kʰeʔ, *kʰes, *ɡe 蚑 *kʰes, *ɡe 吱 *kʰes 岐 *ɡe 歧 *ɡe 鬾 *ɡre, *ɡres 技 *ɡreʔ 芰 *ɡres 攱 *kʷreʔ, *kʷres 庪 *kʷreʔ 頍 *kʰʷeʔ 屐 *ɡreɡ
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声 ,OC *kje ) and ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意 ): semantic 木 ( “ tree ” ) + phonetic 支 ( OC *kje ,“ branch ” ) .
Originally the same word as支 (OC *kje , “branch (of tree), limb; to support”); see there for more (STEDT).
Note :
Meixian:zi1 - literary; gi1 - vernacular. Note :
gi1 - vernacular; zi1 - literary. Note :
ki - vernacular; chi - literary. Wu (Northern :Shanghai ,Jiading ,Songjiang ,Chongming ,Chuansha ,Changzhou ,Jingjiang ,Tongxiang ,Haining ,Haiyan ,Hangzhou ,Shaoxing ,Ningbo ,Zhoushan ) (Northern :Suzhou ) (Jinhua ) Baxter –Sagart system 1.1 (2014 )Character 枝 Reading # 1/1 Modern Beijing (Pinyin) zhī Middle Chinese ‹ tsye › Old Chinese /*ke/ English branch (of tree) 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 枝 Reading # 1/1 No. 17201 Phonetic component 支 Rime group 支 Rime subdivision 0 Corresponding MC rime 支 Old Chinese /*kje/
枝
branch ;twig 柳 枝 低垂 在 水面 上 。[MSC ,trad. andsimp. ] Liǔzhī dīchuí zài shuǐmiàn shang. [Pinyin] Thebranches of the willows drooped over the water. 他 把 不 結果 的 枝 都 修剪 掉 。[MSC ,trad. ] 他 把 不 结果 的 枝 都 修剪 掉 。[MSC ,simp. ] Tā bǎ bù jiēguǒ dezhī dōu xiūjiǎn diào. [Pinyin] He pruned everybranch that did not bear fruit. Classifier for long cylindrical objects (stick, pen, rod, flower with stem, etc). 一 枝 鉛筆 / 一 枝 铅笔 ― yīzhī qiānbǐ ― a pencil一 枝 槍 / 一 枝 枪 ― yīzhī qiāng ― a gunasurname Dialectal synonyms of
支 (“(classifier for pens or pencils)”)
[map] Variety Location Words Formal(Written Standard Chinese ) 支 ,桿 Northeastern Mandarin Taiwan 支 Cantonese Guangzhou 支 Hong Kong 支 Hong Kong(Kam Tin; Weitou) 支 Macau 支 Guangzhou(Panyu) 支 Guangzhou(Huashan, Huadu) 支 Guangzhou(Conghua) 支 Guangzhou(Zengcheng) 支 Foshan 支 Foshan(Shatou, Nanhai) 支 Foshan(Shunde) 支 Foshan(Sanshui) 支 Foshan(Mingcheng, Gaoming) 支 Zhongshan(Shiqi) 支 Zhuhai(Qianshan, Xiangzhou) 支 Zhuhai(Shangheng, Doumen; Tanka) 支 Zhuhai(Doumen) 支 Jiangmen(Baisha) 支 Jiangmen(Xinhui) 支 Taishan 支 Kaiping(Chikan) 支 Enping(Niujiang) 支 Heshan(Yayao) 支 Dongguan 支 Shenzhen(Shajing, Bao'an) 支 Hakka Huizhou(Huicheng; Bendihua) 支 Dongguan(Qingxi) 桿 Shenzhen(Shatoujiao) 桿 Zhongshan(Nanlang Heshui) 支 Guangzhou(Lütian, Conghua) 支 Eastern Min Fuzhou 把 Fuzhou(Changle) 把 Fuqing 把 Yongtai 把 Gutian 把 Fu'an 支 Ningde 把 Shouning 支 Zhouning 支 Fuding 支 Southern Min Xiamen 支 ,叢 Quanzhou 支 ,叢 Zhangzhou 支 ,叢 Tainan 支 Manila(Hokkien) 支 Zhongshan Min Zhongshan(Longdu, Shaxi) 支 Note 支 is also written as枝
枝
alternative form of跂 ( “ extra toe ” ) alternative form of歧 ( qí ,“ divergent ” ) “枝 ”, in教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi ] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien),Ministry of Education, R.O.C. ,2025 .“枝 ”, in漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database) [1] ,香港中文大學 (theChinese University of Hong Kong ),2014– 李如龙 [ Li, Ru-long] ;刘福铸 [ Liu, Fu-zhu] ;吴华英 [ Wu, Hua-ying] ;黄国城 [ Huang, Guo-cheng] (2019 ), “枝 ”, in莆仙方言调查报告 [Investigation Report on Puxian Dialect ] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min),Xiamen University Press ,→ISBN , page159 .枝 枝
(Fifth grade kyōiku kanji )
branch ,limbs Inherited from earlieryeda , fromOld Japanese , fromProto-Japonic *yonta . Cognate withKunigami 枝 ( yudā ) ,Miyako 枝 ( yuda ) ,Okinawan 枝 ( yida ) ,枝 ( yuda ) ,Yaeyama 枝 ( yuda ) ,Yonaguni 枝 ( duda ) . The vowel change is irregular.
枝( えだ ) • (eda ) ←えだ ( eda ) ?
branch ,limbs ( graph theory ) edge 枝 • (ji ) (hangeul 지 ,revised ji,McCune–Reischauer chi,Yale ci)
This term needs a translation to English. Please help out andadd a translation , then remove the text{{rfdef }}. 枝
(Fifth grade kyōiku kanji )
Inherited fromProto-Ryukyuan *yoda , fromProto-Japonic *yonta .
枝( ゆだー ) (yudā )
branch ( of a tree or plant ) ;bough “ゆだー【枝】 ” inJLect - Japonic Languages and Dialects Database Dictionary , 2019. 枝
(Fifth grade kyōiku kanji )
Inherited fromProto-Ryukyuan *yoda , fromProto-Japonic *yonta .
枝( ゆだ ) (yuda )
branch ( of a tree or plant ) ;bough “ゆだ【枝】 ” inJLect - Japonic Languages and Dialects Database Dictionary , 2019. 枝
(Fifth grade kyōiku kanji )
Inherited fromProto-Ryukyuan *yoda , fromProto-Japonic *yonta .
枝( いぃだ ) or 枝( ゆだ ) (yida or yuda )
branch ( of a tree or plant ) ;bough “いだ・いぃだ・ゐだ・ゆぃだ【枝】 ” inJLect - Japonic Languages and Dialects Database Dictionary , 2019. “ゆだ【枝】 ” inJLect - Japonic Languages and Dialects Database Dictionary , 2019. 枝 :Hán Nôm readings:chi ,che
This term needs a translation to English. Please help out andadd a translation , then remove the text{{rfdef }}. 枝
(Fifth grade kyōiku kanji )
Inherited fromProto-Ryukyuan *yoda , fromProto-Japonic *yonta .
枝( ゆだ ) (yuda )
branch ( of a tree or plant ) ;bough “ゆだ【枝】 ” inJLect - Japonic Languages and Dialects Database Dictionary , 2019. 枝
(Fifth grade kyōiku kanji )
Inherited fromProto-Ryukyuan *yoda , fromProto-Japonic *yonta .
枝( どぅだ ) (duda )
branch ( of a tree or plant ) ;bough “どぅだ【枝】 ” inJLect - Japonic Languages and Dialects Database Dictionary , 2019.