只

See also: 隻, 衹, and 祇
只 U+53EA, 只
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-53EA
← 叩
[U+53E9] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 叫 →
[U+53EB]

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

只 (radical 30, 口+2, 5 strokes, cangjie input 口金 (RC), four-corner 60800, composition ⿱口八)

References

  • KangXi: page 172, character 5
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3239
  • Dae Jaweon: page 383, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 570, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+53EA

Chinese

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (只) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
只 *klje, *kljeʔ
胑 *klje
疻 *klje, *klji
軹 *kljeʔ
咫 *kljeʔ
枳 *kljeʔ, *kleʔ
抧 *kljeʔ
伿 *kljes, *les
齞 *ŋleːnʔ

Ideogrammic compound (會意) : 口 (“mouth”) + airflow, an interjection.

Etymology 1

trad. 只/祇*
simp. 只
alt. forms 衹

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 只
Reading # 1/2
Initial (聲) 章 (23)
Final (韻) 支 (11)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 章移切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /t͡ɕiᴇ/
Pan
Wuyun		 /t͡ɕiɛ/
Shao
Rongfen		 /t͡ɕjɛ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ciə̆/
Li
Rong		 /t͡ɕie/
Wang
Li		 /t͡ɕǐe/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /t͡ɕie̯/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 zhī
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 只
Reading # 1/2
No. 17304
Phonetic
component		 只
Rime
group		 支
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 支
Old
Chinese		 /*klje/

Definitions

只

  1. only; just; simply
    我只去過一次。 / 我只去过一次。  ―  Wǒ zhǐ qù guò yī cì.  ―  I've only been there once.
    湯裡只放了一點兒胡椒粉。 [MSC, trad.]
    汤里只放了一点儿胡椒粉。 [MSC, simp.]
    Tāng lǐ zhǐ fàng le yīdiǎnr hújiāofěn. [Pinyin]
    There was just a hint of pepper in the soup.
Synonyms

Compounds

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 只 – see 隻.
(This character, 只, is the simplified form of 隻.)
Notes:

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

Definitions

只

  1. (Min Nan) this
Synonyms
Dialectal synonyms of 這 (“this”) [map]
Variety Location Words
Classical Chinese 此、斯
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 這
Mandarin Beijing 這
Taiwan 這
Cantonese Guangzhou 呢、依
Hong Kong 呢、依
Taishan 該
Hakka Miaoli (N. Sixian) 這
Liudui (S. Sixian) 這
Hsinchu (Hailu) 這
Dongshi (Dabu) 這
Zhuolan (Raoping) 這
Yunlin (Zhao'an) 這
Min Dong Fuzhou 茲
Min Nan Xiamen 這
Quanzhou 只、這
Zhangzhou 這
Taipei 這
Chaozhou 只
Shantou 只
Wu Shanghai 搿、迭 old-style、第 obsolete

Etymology 4

Pronunciation 1

Rime
Character 只
Reading # 2/2
Initial (聲) 章 (23)
Final (韻) 支 (11)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 諸氏切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /t͡ɕiᴇX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /t͡ɕiɛX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /t͡ɕjɛX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ciə̆X/
Li
Rong		 /t͡ɕieX/
Wang
Li		 /t͡ɕǐeX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /t͡ɕie̯X/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 zhǐ
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 只
Reading # 2/2
No. 17307
Phonetic
component		 只
Rime
group		 支
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 紙
Old
Chinese		 /*kljeʔ/
Definitions

只

  1. a particle, similar to 啊 (ā) or 耳 (ěr)
  2. this
  3. A surname​.

Pronunciation 2

Rime
Character 只
Reading # 1/2
Initial (聲) 章 (23)
Final (韻) 支 (11)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 章移切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /t͡ɕiᴇ/
Pan
Wuyun		 /t͡ɕiɛ/
Shao
Rongfen		 /t͡ɕjɛ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ciə̆/
Li
Rong		 /t͡ɕie/
Wang
Li		 /t͡ɕǐe/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /t͡ɕie̯/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 zhī
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 只
Reading # 1/2
No. 17304
Phonetic
component		 只
Rime
group		 支
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 支
Old
Chinese		 /*klje/
Definitions

只

  1. to do
  2. just
  3. at first
  4. a particle, similar to 著 (zhuó)

Etymology 5

For pronunciation and definitions of 只 – see 咫 (“foot measure during the Zhou dynasty”).
(This character, 只, is a variant form of 咫.)

Japanese

Kanji

只

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

  1. only, simply

Readings

Pronunciation

References

  1. ↑ 1974, 新明解国語辞典 (Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten), Second Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

只 (chỉ, chích)

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