紫

紫 U+7D2B, 紫
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7D2B
← 紪
[U+7D2A] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 紬 →
[U+7D2C]

Translingual

Han character

紫 (radical 120 糸+6, 12 strokes, cangjie input 卜心女戈火 (YPVIF), four-corner 21903, composition ⿱此糸)

References

  • KangXi: page 919, character 29
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27337
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1350, character 12
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3392, character 12
  • Unihan data for U+7D2B

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 紫

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 紫
Spring and Autumn Warring States Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions Chu Slip and silk script Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
Characters in the same phonetic series (此) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
些 *saːls, *sjaːl, *seːs
跐 *ʔsreːʔ, *ʔseʔ, *sʰeʔ, *ʔsreʔ
柴 *zreː
祡 *zreː
茈 *zreː, *ʔseʔ, *ze
眦 *zreːs
砦 *zraːds
寨 *zraːds, *slɯːɡ
啙 *ʔseː, *zeːʔ, *ʔseʔ
泚 *sʰeːʔ, *sʰeʔ
玼 *sʰeːʔ, *sʰeʔ, *ze
皉 *sʰeːʔ
鮆 *zeːʔ, *ʔse
眥 *zeːs, *zes
貲 *ʔse
髭 *ʔse
頾 *ʔse
訾 *ʔse, *ʔseʔ
鴜 *ʔse, *ze
鈭 *ʔse, *sʰe
姕 *ʔse, *sʰe, *ze
觜 *ʔse, *ʔse, *ʔseʔ
紫 *ʔseʔ
訿 *ʔseʔ
呰 *ʔseʔ
嘴 *ʔseʔ
雌 *sʰe
此 *sʰeʔ
佌 *sʰeʔ, *seʔ
庛 *sʰes
疵 *ze
骴 *ze, *zes
胔 *ze, *zes
飺 *ze
齜 *ʔsre

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ʔseʔ) : phonetic 此 (OC *sʰeʔ) + semantic 糸.

Pronunciation

Note:
  • chí - vernacular;
  • chír/chú - literary.
Rime
Character 紫
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 精 (13)
Final (韻) 支 (11)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 將此切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /t͡siᴇX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /t͡siɛX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /t͡sjɛX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /t͡siə̆X/
Li
Rong		 /t͡sieX/
Wang
Li		 /t͡sǐeX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /t͡sie̯X/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 zǐ
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 紫
Reading # 1/1
No. 1712
Phonetic
component		 此
Rime
group		 支
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 紫
Old
Chinese		 /*ʔseʔ/

Definitions

紫

  1. (～色) purple; violet; dark pink (combination of red and blue colours)
  2. amethyst
  3. A surname​.

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

紫

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

Compounds

Noun

紫 (hiragana むらさき, rōmaji murasaki)

  1. purple; violet
  2. a gromwell
  3. soy (sauce)

See also

Colors in Japanese · 色 (いろ) (iro) (layout · text)
     白 (しろ) (shiro)      灰 (はい)色 (いろ) (haiiro),
鼠 (ねずみ)色 (いろ) (nezumiiro) (dated)		      黒 (くろ) (kuro)      茶 (ちゃ)色 (いろ) (chairo),
褐 (かっ)色 (しょく) (kasshoku)
             ピンク (pinku),
桃 (もも)色 (いろ) (momoiro)		              赤 (あか) (aka) ; 深 (しん)紅 (く) (shinku),
クリムゾン (kurimuzon),
紅 (べに)色 (いろ) (beniiro),
紅 (くれない)色 (いろ) (kurenaiiro)		              オレンジ (orenji),
橙 (だいだい)色 (いろ) (daidaiiro)		              黄 (き)色 (いろ) (kiiro) ; クリーム色 (いろ) (kurīmuiro)
             黄 (き)緑 (みどり) (kimidori)              緑 (みどり) (midori),
青 (あお) (ao) (dated)		                           シアン (shian) ; 鴨 (かも)の羽色 (はねいろ) (kamo no hane iro)
             水 (みず)色 (いろ) (mizuiro)              青 (あお) (ao)              菫 (すみれ)色 (いろ) (sumireiro) ; 藍 (あい)色 (いろ) (aiiro),
インジゴ (injigo)		              マゼンタ (mazenta) ; 紫 (むらさき) (murasaki)

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

紫 (tử, tía)

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References

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