磁

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磁 U+78C1, 磁
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-78C1
← 磀
[U+78C0] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 磂 →
[U+78C2]

Translingual[edit]

Han character[edit]

磁 (Kangxi radical 112, 石+9, 14 strokes, cangjie input 一口廿女戈 (MRTVI), four-corner 18632, composition ⿰石兹)

References[edit]

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 834, character 14
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 24364
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1251, character 11
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2445, character 6
  • Unihan data for U+78C1

Chinese[edit]

simp. and trad.
 磁

Glyph origin[edit]

Characters in the same phonetic series (兹) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
糍 *zi
茲 *ʔsɯ, *zɯ
滋 *ʔsɯ
孳 *ʔsɯ, *zɯs
嵫 *ʔsɯ
嗞 *ʔsɯ
鎡 *ʔsɯ
鰦 *ʔsɯ
鶿 *ʔsɯ, *zɯ
稵 *ʔsɯ, *ʔsɯw
螆 *sʰɯs
慈 *zɯ
鷀 *zɯ
磁 *zɯ
礠 *zlɯ
濨 *zlɯ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *zɯ) : semantic 石 (“rock; stone”) + phonetic 兹 (OC *ʔsɯ, *zɯ).

Pronunciation[edit]

Note:
  • chû/chîr - literary;
  • hûi - vernacular.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 磁
Reading # 1/1
No. 17849
Phonetic
component 		兹
Rime
group 		之
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		慈
Old
Chinese 		/*zɯ/
Notes 同礠見山海經

Definitions[edit]

磁

  1. † magnet
  2. magnetism
  3. Alternative form of 瓷 (cí, “porcelain”)

Compounds[edit]

Japanese[edit]

Kanji[edit]

磁

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. magnet

Readings[edit]

Korean[edit]

Hanja[edit]

磁 • (ja) (hangeul 자, revised ja, McCune–Reischauer cha, Yale ca)

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Vietnamese[edit]

Han character[edit]

磁: Hán Nôm readings: từ

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