字

宇 ၊ 亭  နှင့် 宁 ကိုလည်း ကြည့်ပါ။

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ဘုံဝေါဟာရ

字

• အစွန်း: 子子 + ၃ ဆင့်
• အဆင့်: ၆ဆင့်၆

စာလုံးရေးဆွဲပုံ

စာလုံးရေးဆွဲပုံ

အက္ခရာရင်းမြစ်

ရွှေစာ	ရွှေစာ	ရွှေစာ	စလစ်စာ	တံဆိပ်သေးစာ	ရှေးဟောင်းဒဏ္ဍာရီစာ
ယင်	အနောက်ကျူ	နွေဦးနှင့် ဆောင်းဦးခေတ်	စစ်ပြည်ထောင်ခေတ်	ရှိုစာ (ကန်)	လျူရှူတွံ (မင်)

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Chinese

ရိုးရှင်းနှင့် ရိုးရာ		字

Glyph origin

ရွှေစာ	ရွှေစာ	ရွှေစာ	စလစ်စာ	တံဆိပ်သေးစာ	ရှေးဟောင်းဒဏ္ဍာရီစာ
ယင်	အနောက်ကျူ	နွေဦးနှင့် ဆောင်းဦးခေတ်	စစ်ပြည်ထောင်ခေတ်	ရှိုစာ (ကန်)	လျူရှူတွံ (မင်)

တမ်းပလိတ်:Han compound.

Etymology

From ရှေးဦး-တရုတ်-တိဘက်နွယ် *tsa ~ za (“child; to give birth; to take care; to be kind”). Related to:

• တမ်းပလိတ်:och-l (also its phonetic component)
• တမ်းပလိတ်:och-l
• တမ်းပလိတ်:och-l
• တမ်းပလိတ်:och-l
• တမ်းပလိတ်:och-l

Original sense (1): “to become pregnant, to give birth to, to nurture, to love” has essentially become obsolete. The sense (2) “letter, character” is either from a different root or a derivation from the sense “to produce, to generate”.

Cognate with တိဘက် ཚ་བོ (tsha bo, “nephew”), တိဘက် ཚ་རུས (tsha rus, “descendant”), တိဘက် བཙའ (btsa', “to give birth to; to guard”), တိဘက် མཛའ (mdza', “kind, peaceful, friendly”) (တမ်းပလိတ်:zh-ref).

Definitions

字

1. letter; symbol; character, especially a Chinese character (Classifier: 個／个 m c; 隻／只 c)

   這個字怎麼唸？ / 这个字怎么念？  ―  Zhège zì zěnme niàn?  ―  How do you read this character?

   字母  ―  zìmǔ  ―  letter

   字串  ―  zìchuàn  ―  character string

2. word; term; wording; diction

   這字拼錯了。 / 这字拼错了。  ―  Zhè zì pīn cuò le.  ―  This word is wrongly spelt; you've left out a letter.

3. (computing) word
4. handwriting; writing

   他的字很差。  ―  Tā de zì hěn chà.  ―  His handwriting is very bad.

5. (historical) courtesy name; Chinese-style name (a name traditionally given to Chinese males at the age of 20 and females at the age of 15)
6. (historical) to style; to give someone a courtesy name
7. (calligraphy) style of handwriting; printing type
8. (calligraphy) (a calligrapher's) calligraphy work
9. written letter; message; correspondence
10. receipt; contract; slip
11. pronunciation of a character; pronunciation
12. (colloquial) side of a coin with written characters; tails

    တမ်းပလိတ်:zh-ant

13. (Cantonese, Min, Malaysia, Singapore) five minutes (derived from the locations of 1 to 12 on a clock face) (Classifier: 個／个 m c)

    三個字 / 三个字 [Cantonese]  ―  saam¹ go³ zi⁶ [Jyutping]  ―  fifteen minutes [i.e. when the minute hand points to 3]

    七點兩字 / 七点两字 [Min Nan]  ―  七 點 nn̄g jī [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]  ―  ten past seven

    一個字 / 一个字 [Teochew]  ―  zêg⁸ gai⁵ ri⁷ [Peng'im]  ―  five minutes [i.e. when the minute hand points to 1]

    而家係一點十一個字。 [Guangzhou Cantonese, ရိုးရာ]
    而家系一点十一个字。 [Guangzhou Cantonese, ရိုးရှင်း]

    Ji⁴ gaa¹ hai⁶ jat¹ dim² sap⁶ jat¹ go³ zi⁶. [Jyutping]

    It's five to two now. (Literally: It's one o'clock [and] eleven five-minutes.)

    爭三個字到六點 [Guangzhou Cantonese, ရိုးရာ]
    争三个字到六点 [Guangzhou Cantonese, ရိုးရှင်း]

    zaang¹ saam¹ go³ zi⁶ dou³ luk⁶ dim² [Jyutping]

    a quarter to six (Literally: Missing three five-minutes to six o'clock)

14. တမ်းပလိတ်:† to give birth to; to deliver a baby; to bring into the world
15. တမ်းပလိတ်:† to be pregnant; to be carrying a baby
16. တမ်းပလိတ်:† (historical, of a girl) to be betrothed; to be allowed to marry

    待字閨中 / 待字闺中  ―  dàizìguīzhōng  ―  to stay in the boudoir waiting to be betrothed

17. တမ်းပလိတ်:† to bring up; to raise; to rear (a child)

    • 其僚無子，使字敬叔。 [Classical Chinese, ရိုးရာ]
      其僚无子，使字敬叔。 [Classical Chinese, ရိုးရှင်း]

      From: Commentary of Zuo, circa 4^th century BCE

      Qí liáo wú zǐ, shǐ zì Jìngshū. [Pinyin]

      Her companion had no child, but she was employed to bring up Jingshu.

18. (obsolete or Guzhang Waxiang) to love; to cherish; to care very much for

    • 子弗祗服厥父事，大傷厥考心；于父不能字厥子，乃疾厥子。 [Classical Chinese, ရိုးရာ]
      子弗祗服厥父事，大伤厥考心；于父不能字厥子，乃疾厥子。 [Classical Chinese, ရိုးရှင်း]

      From: The Book of Documents, circa 4^th – 3^rd century BCE

      Zǐ fú zhī fú jué fù shì, dà shāng jué kǎo xīn; yú fù bùnéng zì jué zǐ, nǎi jí jué zǐ. [Pinyin]

      The son who does not reverently discharge his duty to his father, but greatly wounds his father's heart, and the father who can (no longer) love his son, but hates him.

    • 楚雖大，非吾族也，其肯字我乎？ [Classical Chinese, ရိုးရာ]
      楚虽大，非吾族也，其肯字我乎？ [Classical Chinese, ရိုးရှင်း]

      From: Commentary of Zuo, circa 4^th century BCE

      Chǔ suī dà, fēi wú zú yě, qí kěn zì wǒ hū? [Pinyin]

      Although Chu is great, they are not akin to us; how will they be willing to love us?

19. (Luxi Waxiang) to envy; to be jealous of; to admire
20. တမ်းပလိတ်:† to educate; to teach; to instruct
21. တမ်းပလိတ်:† to govern; to administer
22. zh မိသားစုအမည်​။

Synonyms

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Descendants

တမ်းပလိတ်:CJKV Others:

References

• တမ်းပလိတ်:R:yue:Hanzi

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Japanese

Kanji

字

(grade 1 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• ဂိုအွန်: じ (ji, Jōyō)
• ခန်အွန်: し (shi)
• ခုန်: あざ (aza, 字, Jōyō); あざな (azana, 字); うむ (umu); ます (masu)

Etymology 1

ဤဝေါဟာရကို ခန်းဂျီး ဖြင့်
字
じ Grade: 1
on’yomi

Borrowed from Middle Chinese 字 with the southern pronunciation (kango, go-on).

Pronunciation

• အွန်ယိုမီ: ဂိုးအွန်
  • (တိုကျို) じ​ [jíꜜ] (အာတာမာဒါကာ – [1])
  • IPA^(key): [d͡ʑi]

Noun

字 (ဟိရဂန じ, ရိုမဂျိ ji)

1. letter, character

   この字 (じ)は何 (なん)と読 (よ)みますか？

   Kono ji wa nan to yomimasu ka?

   How do you pronounce this character?

2. handwriting, penmanship

   彼 (かの)女 (じょ)は字 (じ)が上 (う)手 (ま)い（汚 (きたな)い）。

   Kanojo wa ji ga umai (kitanai).

   She has good (bad) handwriting.

Derived terms

ဆင့်ပွားအသုံးများ

• 永 (えい)字 (じ) (eiji, “the character 永 (ei, “eternity”)”)
• 十 (じゅう)字 (じ) (jūji, “cross”)
• 字 (じ)解 (かい) (jikai)
• 字 (じ)義 (ぎ) (jigi, “the meaning of a word”)
• 字 (じ)源 (げん) (jigen, “the construction of a character”)
• 字 (じ)体 (たい) (jitai, “font or lettering”)
• 字 (じ)典 (てん) (jiten, “character dictionary”)
• 字 (じ)母 (ぼ) (jibo, “letter (of the alphabet)”)
• 漢 (かん)字 (じ) (kanji, “Chinese characters”)

  漢 (かん)字 (じ)返 (がえ)し (kanjigaeshi, “kanji repeater”)

• 文 (も)字 (じ) (moji, “letter, character, or ideograph”)
• 字 (じ)引 (びき) (jibiki, “dictionary”)
• 数 (すう)字 (じ) (sūji, “numeral or number”)
• 字 (じ)訳 (やく) (jiyaku)
• 二 (に)字 (じ) (niji, “two characters”)
• 大 (だい)字 (じ) (daiji, “a large character”)

Counter

字 (ဟိရဂန じ, ရိုမဂျိ ji)

1. letters, characters

   ４ (よん)０ (じゅう)字 (じ)以 (い)内 (ない)で書 (か)いてください。

   Yonjū-ji inai de kaite kudasai.

   Please write it down in 40 characters or fewer.

Etymology 2

ဤဝေါဟာရကို ခန်းဂျီး ဖြင့်
字
あざ Grade: 1
kun’yomi

Shortened form of あざな (azana, “a section of a village”) of ancient Japanese origin (wago).

Pronunciation

• ကုန်ယိုမီ
  • (တိုကျို) あ​ざ [áꜜzà] (အာတာမာဒါကာ – [1])
  • IPA^(key): [a̠za̠]

Noun

字 (ဟိရဂန あざ, ရိုမဂျိ aza)

1. a section of a village

Derived terms

• 大 (おお)字 (あざ) (ōaza)
• 小 (こ)字 (あざ) (koaza)

Etymology 3

ဤဝေါဟာရကို ခန်းဂျီး ဖြင့်
字
あざな Grade: 1
kun’yomi

Of ancient Japanese origin (wago).

Pronunciation

• ကုန်ယိုမီ
  • (တိုကျို) あざな [àzáná] (ဟေးဘန် – [0])
  • IPA^(key): [a̠za̠na̠]

Noun

字 (ဟိရဂန あざな, ရိုမဂျိ azana)

1. courtesy name

   たく郡 (ぐん)（河北 (かほく)省 (しょう)）の人 (ひと)。字 (あざな)は玄徳 (げんとく)。[၁]

   Taku-gun (Kahoku-shō) no hito. Azana wa Gentoku.

   Of Zhuo Commandery. Courtesy name Xuande.

2. nickname
3. a section of a village

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ကိုရီးယား

ရင်းမြစ်

အလယ်ခေတ် တရုတ် 字မှ။

အသံထွက်

• (တောင်ကိုရီယားစံ/ဆိုးလ်) IPA^(key): [t͡ɕa̠]
• ကိုရီးယားအသံထွက်: [자]

ဟန်ဂျာ

Wikisource

字 (အုမ်ဟုန် 글자 자 (geulja ja))

1. 자 (“စာ”)၏ ဟန်ဂျာပုံစံ^?

ပေါင်းစပ်‌စကားလုံးများ

Compounds

• 글자 (글字, geulja)
• 적자 (赤字, jeokja)
• 한자 (漢字, hanja)
• 숫자 (數字, sutja)
• 동자 (同字, dongja)
• 속자 (俗字, sokja)
• 본자 (本字, bonja)
• 고자 (古字, goja)
• 약자 (略字, yakja)
• 파자 (破字, paja)
• 자구 (字句, jagu)
• 자음 (字音, ja'eum)
• 자형 (字形, jahyeong)
• 흑자 (黑字, heukja)
• 자의 (字義, jaui)
• 서자 (書字, seoja)
• 자학 (字學, jahak)
• 채자 (採字, chaeja)
• 오자 (誤字, oja)
• 자훈 (字訓, jahun)
• 자원 (字源, jawon)
• 자서 (字書, jaseo)
• 국자 (國字, gukja)
• 점자 (點字, jeomja)
• 자림 (字林, jarim)
• 정자 (正字, jeongja)
• 자모 (字母, jamo)
• 자휘 (字彙, jahwi)
• 팔자 (八字, palja)
• 자막 (字幕, jamak)
• 활자 (活字, hwalja)
• 자간 (字間, jagan)
• 와자 (訛字, waja)
• 각자 (刻字, gakja)
• 자보 (字譜, jabo)
• 자면 (字面, jamyeon)
• 음자 (音字, eumja)
• 자체 (字體, jache)
• 주자 (鑄字, juja)
• 자수 (字數, jasu)
• 차자 (借字, chaja)
• 만자 (卍字, manja)
• 문자 (文字, munja)
• 자해 (字解, jahae)
• 천자문 (千字文, cheonjamun)
• 간체자 (簡體字, gancheja)
• 번체자 (繁體字, beoncheja)
• 항렬자 (行列字, hangnyeolja)
• 십자수 (十字繡, sipjasu)
• 십자가 (十字架, sipjaga)
• 십자군 (十字軍, sipjagun)
• 적십자 (赤十字, jeoksipja)

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Vietnamese

Han character

字: Hán Nôm readings: tự, chữ

1. character, letter
2. word

References

• Thiều Chửu : Hán Việt Tự Điển, Hà Nội, 1942
• Trần Văn Chánh: Từ Điển Hán Việt NXB Trẻ, Ho Chi Minh Ville, 1999
• Vũ Văn Kính: Đại Tự Điển Chữ Nôm, NXB Văn Nghệ, Ho Chi Minh Ville, 1999

Compounds

• 字儒 (chữ Nho)
• 字喃 (chữ Nôm)