芝

See also: 艺
芝 U+829D, 芝
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-829D
← 芜
[U+829C]
CJK Unified Ideographs 芞 →
[U+829E]
芝 U+2F991, 芝
CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-2F991
← 芋
[U+2F990]
CJK Compatibility Ideographs Supplement 劳 →
[U+2F992]

Translingual

Han character

芝 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+3, 7 strokes in traditional Chinese, 6 strokes in mainland China and Japanese and Korean, cangjie input 廿戈弓人 (TINO), four-corner 44307, composition ⿱艹之)

Derived characters

  • 𡝳, 徔, 𪫿, 𣷸, 𣔰, 𤦧, 𮐘

References

Chinese

trad. 芝
simp. # 芝
alternative forms 𦭩

Glyph origin

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

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

Pronunciation



Rime
Character 芝
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 章 (23)
Final (韻) 之 (19)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 止而切
Baxter tsyi
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/t͡ɕɨ/
Pan
Wuyun
/t͡ɕɨ/
Shao
Rongfen
/t͡ɕie/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/cɨ/
Li
Rong
/t͡ɕiə/
Wang
Li
/t͡ɕĭə/
Bernard
Karlgren
/t͡ɕi/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
zhī
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
zi1
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 芝
Reading # 1/1
No. 17189
Phonetic
component
之
Rime
group
之
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
之
Old
Chinese
/*tjɯ/

Definitions

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 of Chicago”).
  5. a surname

Compounds

  • 三芝 (Sānzhī)
  • 劉蘭芝/刘兰芝
  • 張芝/张芝
  • 得挹芝眉
  • 斑芝 (pan-chi) (Min Nan)
  • 焚芝
  • 焚芝鋤蕙/焚芝锄蕙
  • 王仙芝
  • 瑞芝
  • 紫芝
  • 紫芝眉宇
  • 肉芝
  • 芝儀/芝仪
  • 芝加哥 (Zhījiāgē)
  • 芝宇
  • 芝標/芝标
  • 芝焚蕙嘆/芝焚蕙叹
  • 芝田
  • 芝眉
  • 芝艾俱焚
  • 芝草 (zhīcǎo)
  • 芝草無根/芝草无根
  • 芝蘭/芝兰
  • 芝蘭之化/芝兰之化
  • 芝蘭之室/芝兰之室
  • 芝蘭氣味/芝兰气味
  • 芝蘭玉樹/芝兰玉树
  • 芝顏/芝颜
  • 芝麻 (zhīma)
  • 芝麻官 (zhīmaguān)
  • 芝麻小事 (zhīmaxiǎoshì)
  • 芝麻油 (zhīmayóu)
  • 芝麻灣/芝麻湾 (Zhīmawān)
  • 芝麻秸
  • 芝麻糊 (zhīmahù)
  • 芝麻綠豆/芝麻绿豆 (zhīma lǜdòu)
  • 芝麻醬/芝麻酱 (zhīmajiàng)
  • 鄭芝龍/郑芝龙
  • 野芝麻
  • 雲芝/云芝
  • 靈芝/灵芝 (língzhī)
  • 龍芝茶/龙芝茶

Japanese

Kanji

芝

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. turf, lawn, grass

Readings

Etymology 1

芝: common grass, especially as found in lawns.
Kanji in this term
芝
しば
Grade: S
kun’yomi

From Old Japanese. One of the oldest attested words in the Japanese language, used in the Man'yōshū and Nihon Shoki.

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

Pronunciation

    Noun

    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 on grassy 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 the grass and spying on one's enemies or scouting out the situation; a spy in the grass
    Derived terms

    Proper noun

    芝(しば) • (Shiba) 

    1. a surname

    Verb

    芝(しば)する • (shiba suru) suru (stem 芝(しば)し (shiba shi), past 芝(しば)した (shiba shita))

    1. short for 芝見 (​shibami): to hide in the grass and spy on one's enemies or scout out the situation
    Conjugation

    Etymology 2

    Kanji in this term
    芝
    しざま
    Grade: S
    kun’yomi

    Compound of し (shi, adjectival ending) +‎ 様 (sama, “kind, type”).[2] The sama changes to zama as an instance of rendaku (連濁). The kanji 芝 was used as an ateji, probably based on its on'yomi of shi.

    Pronunciation

      • IPA(key): [ɕiza̠ma̠]

      Noun

      芝(しざま) • (shizama) 

      1. (grammar, obsolete) “shi-type”, referring to the i 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 the nomenclature used in the grammar devised by 富士谷成章 (Fujitani Nariakira), a classical Japanese scholar and grammarian in the middle Edo period. Modern i 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.

      Etymology 3

      Kanji in this term
      芝
      し
      Grade: S
      on’yomi

      From Middle Chinese 芝 (*chi). Compare modern Mandarin 芝 (zhī).

      Pronunciation

        • IPA(key): [ɕi]

        Affix

        芝(し) • (shi) 

        1. the 万年茸 (​mannentake) mushroom
        Derived terms

        Etymology 4

        Used as ateji in various surnames.

        Proper noun

        芝(しはざき) • (Shihazaki) 

        1. a surname

        Proper noun

        芝(しばさき) • (Shibasaki) 

        1. a surname

        Proper noun

        芝(しばざき) • (Shibazaki) 

        1. a surname

        Proper noun

        芝(しばたか) • (Shibataka) 

        1. a surname

        References

        1. 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), Tōkyō: NHK Publishing, →ISBN
        2. Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典(新装版) [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN

        Korean

        Hanja

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

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        Vietnamese

        Han character

        芝: Hán Nôm readings: chi

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