芝 (Kangxi radical 140,艸+3, 7 strokesin traditional Chinese, 6 strokesin mainland China and Japanese and Korean,cangjie input廿戈弓人 (TINO),four-corner4430₇,composition⿱艹之)

• 𡝳,徔,𪫿,𣷸,𣔰,𤦧,𮐘

• Kangxi Dictionary:page 1019, character 15
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30699
• Dae Jaweon: page 1477, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3176, character 5
• Unihan data for U+829D

• Unihan data for U+2F991

Historical forms of the character芝
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled inHan)
Small seal script

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声,OC*tjɯ): semantic 艹(“grass”) + phonetic 之(OC*tjɯ) – a type of plant.

芝

1. lingzhi;Ganoderma

   靈芝／灵芝  ― língzhī  ―  lingzhi

2. Alternative form of芷
3. Used in芝麻 (zhīma, “sesame”).
4. Used in芝城 (Zhīchéng, “city ofChicago”).
5. asurname

(Jōyō kanji)

1. turf,lawn,grass

• Go-on:し(shi)
• Kan-on:し(shi)
• Kun:しば(shiba,芝,Jōyō)、しざま(shizama)
• Nanori:こげ(koge)、しは(shiha)、しば(shiba)、しはざき(shihazaki)、しばさき(shibasaki)、しばざき(shibazaki)、しばたか(shibataka)

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FromOld Japanese. One of the oldest attested words in the Japanese language, used in theMan'yōshū andNihon Shoki.

This character usually means a type offungus in Chinese. However, it was also used phonetically in芝麻(*chimæ,“sesame”) (modernMandarin芝麻(zhīmá)), and it seems that the Japanese use of this character for the sense ofgrass may have come from thissesame sense in Chinese.

• (Tokyo)しば[shìbá] (Heiban – [0])^[1]
• IPA^(key): [ɕiba̠]

芝(しば)• (shiba) 

1. grass,turf,green
   • c.759,Man’yōshū,book 14,poem 3508:

     芝(しば)付(つき)乃(の)　御(み)宇(う)良(ら)佐(さ)伎(き)奈流(なる)　根(ね)都(つ)古(こ)具(ぐ)佐(さ)　安(あ)比(ひ)見(み)受(ず)安(あ)良(ら)婆(ば)　安(あ)礼(れ)古(こ)非(ひ)米(め)夜(や)母(も)。

     Shibatsuki no Miurasaki naru netsukogusa ahi mizu araba are kohi meyamo.

     The anemone flowers ongrassy Miura Point; if we hadn't seen each other, I probably wouldn't be so in love.

2. Short for芝見(shibami):hiding in thegrass andspying on one'senemies orscouting out the situation; aspy in thegrass

芝(しば)• (Shiba) 

1. asurname
2. (~区) one of the 35 formerwards ofTokyo Prefecture (1868–1943),Tokyo City.

   Synonym:芝区(Shiba ku,“Shiba ward”)

芝(しば)する• (shibasuru) suru (stem芝(しば)し(shibashi),past芝(しば)した(shibashita))

1. short for芝見 (​shibami): tohide in thegrass andspy on one'senemies orscout out the situation

Compound ofし(shi,adjectival ending) +‎様(sama,“kind, type”).^[2] Thesama changes tozama as an instance ofrendaku (連濁). The kanji芝 was used as anateji, probably based on itson'yomi ofshi.

• IPA^(key): [ɕiza̠ma̠]

芝(しざま)• (shizama) 

1. (grammar, obsolete) “shi-type”, referring to thei adjective in Japanese grammar, specifically theク活用(ku katsuyō,“ku inflection”), corresponding to modern Japanese adjectives ending in-i but not-shii

   This is thenomenclature used in thegrammar devised by富士谷成章 (Fujitani Nariakira), a classical Japanesescholar andgrammarian in the middleEdo period. Moderni adjectives still had the終止形(shūshikei,“terminal form”) ending in-shi in the mid-Edo period, hence Fujitani's description of these as the “shi-type” of adjective.

FromMiddle Chinese芝(*chi). Compare modernMandarin芝(zhī).

• IPA^(key): [ɕi]

芝(し)• (shi) 

1. the万年茸 (​mannentake)mushroom

Used asateji in various surnames.

芝(しはざき)• (Shihazaki) 

1. asurname

芝(しばさき)• (Shibasaki) 

1. asurname

芝(しばざき)• (Shibazaki) 

1. asurname

芝(しばたか)• (Shibataka) 

1. asurname

芝• (ji) (hangeul지,revised ji,McCune–Reischauer chi,Yale ci)

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芝:Hán Nôm readings:chi

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