芝

芝 (radical 140, 艸+3, 7 strokes in traditional Chinese, 6 strokes in mainland China and Japanese and Korean, cangjie input 廿戈弓人 (TINO), four-corner 4430₇, composition ⿱艹之)

• KangXi: page 1019, character 15
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30699
• Dae Jaweon: page 1477, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3176, character 5
• Unihan data for U+829D

Historical forms of the character 芝
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *tjɯ) : semantic 艹 (“grass”) + phonetic 之 (OC *tjɯ) – a type of plant.

芝

1. lingzhi
2. Alternative form of 芷.
3. A surname​.

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. turf, lawn, grass

• Go-on: し (shi)
• Kan-on: し (shi)
• Kun: しば (shiba, 芝, Jōyō); しざま (shizama)
• Nanori: こげ (koge); しは (shiha); しば (shiba); しはざき (shihazaki); しばさき (shibasaki); しばざき (shibazaki); しばたか (shibataka)

芝: common grass, especially as found in lawns.

From Old Japanese. One of the oldest attested words in the Japanese language, used in the Man'yōshū and Nihon Shoki.

This character usually means a type of fungus in Chinese. However, it was also used phonetically in 芝麻 (*chimæ, “sesame”) (modern Mandarin 芝麻 (zhīmá)), and it seems that the Japanese use of this character for the sense of grass may have come from this sesame sense in Chinese.

• Kun’yomi
  • (Tokyo) しば [shìbá] (Heiban – [0])[1]
  • IPA^(key): [ɕiba̠]

芝 (hiragana しば, rōmaji shiba)

1. grass, turf

   芝付乃 御宇良佐伎奈流 根都古具佐 安比見受安良婆 安礼古非米夜母。[2]

   芝 (しば)付 (つき)の　御宇良崎 (みうらさき)なる　ねつこ草 (ぐさ)　相見 (あひみ)ずあらば　我 (あ)れ恋 (こ)ひめやも。

   Shibatsukino miurasakinaru netsukogusa ahimizuaraba arekohimeyamo.

   The anemone flowers on grassy Miura Point; if we hadn't seen each other, I probably wouldn't be so in love.

2. short for 芝見 (​shibami): hiding in the grass and spying on one's enemies or scouting out the situation; a spy in the grass

芝 (hiragana しば, rōmaji Shiba)

1. A surname​.

芝する (suru conjugation, hiragana しばする, rōmaji shiba suru)

1. short for 芝見 (​shibami): to hide in the grass and spy on one's enemies or scout out the situation

Compound of し (shi, adjectival ending) +‎ 様 (sama, “kind, type”).[3] The sama changes to zama as an instance of rendaku (連濁). The kanji 芝 was used as an ateji, probably based on its on'yomi of shi.

• Kun'yomi
• IPA^(key): [ɕiza̠ma̠]

芝 (hiragana しざま, rōmaji shizama)

1. (grammar, obsolete) “shi-type”, referring to the i adjective in Japanese grammar, specifically the ク活用 (ku katsuyō, “ku inflection”), corresponding to modern Japanese adjectives ending in -i but not -shii

   This is the nomenclature used in the grammar devised by 富士谷成章 (Fujitani Nariakira), a classical Japanese scholar and grammarian in the middle Edo period. Modern i adjectives still had the 終止形 (shūshikei, “terminal form”) ending in -shi in the mid-Edo period, hence Fujitani's description of these as the “shi-type” of adjective.

From Middle Chinese 芝 (*chi). Compare modern Mandarin 芝 (zhī).

• On'yomi
• IPA^(key): [ɕi]

芝 (hiragana し, rōmaji shi)

1. the 万年茸 (​mannentake) mushroom

Used as ateji in various surnames.

芝 (hiragana しはざき, rōmaji Shihazaki)

1. A surname​.

芝 (hiragana しばさき, rōmaji Shibasaki)

1. A surname​.

芝 (hiragana しばざき, rōmaji Shibazaki)

1. A surname​.

芝 (hiragana しばたか, rōmaji Shibataka)

1. A surname​.

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

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芝 (chi, liện, liên)

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