咫
咫 — ji
Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).
- Korean reading
- 여덟치 지
- Romanization
- ji
- English
- foot measure of Zhou dynasty
- Mandarin
- zhǐ
- Japanese on'yomi
- シ
- Japanese kun'yomi
- た
- Japanese usage
- Not on either list
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 口 (30, 6 residual)
- Unicode
- U+54AB
Parts that make up 咫
How 咫 was formed
Traditional analysis treats 咫 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 尺, 只.
Korean example words with 咫
- 지척咫尺 Korean gloss: 아주 가까운 거리
- 지척지지咫尺之地 Korean gloss: 매우 가까운 곳
- 지척불변咫尺不辨 Korean gloss: 매우 어둡거나 안개, 눈, 비 따위가 심하여 아주 가까운 곳도 분별하지 못함
- 지척지咫尺地 Korean gloss: 매우 가까운 곳.
- 천위지척天威咫尺 Korean gloss: 천자의 위엄과 권위가 지척에 있다는 뜻으로, 임금과 매우 가까운 곳 또는 제왕의 앞을 이르는 말.
Definitions from Woorimalsam, National Institute of Korean Language (CC BY-SA 2.0 KR)
Japanese words with 咫
- 咫あた distance between outstretched thumb and middle finger (approx. 18 cm)
- 咫尺しせき very short distance
- 八咫やあた eight ata (approx. 144 cm); large; long
- 八咫鏡やたのかがみ Yata no Kagami (the eight-span mirror; one of the Imperial regalia)
- 八咫烏やたがらす Yatagarasu; raven who aided Emperor Jimmu on his eastern expedition; three-legged crow inhabiting the sun
- 八咫の烏やたのからす Yatagarasu; raven who aided Emperor Jimmu on his eastern expedition; three-legged crow inhabiting the sun
Other hanja read “지”
Other hanja with radical 口
Some glosses are machine-generated. Sources and licences are listed together — sources and licences