窒 · zhì
stop up, obstruct
Meanings & readings
Meaning & readings
stop up, obstruct
- Mandarin
- zhì
- Cantonese
- zat6
Unihan definitions and selected character readings. Read the word to establish its pronunciation in context.
Readings in Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese
Readings recorded for 窒 in other language traditions. These are character-level records, not word translations or interchangeable pronunciations.
Japanese 日本語
Grouped by the source’s kana notation; no frequency ranking is implied.
On’yomi · katakana
Kun’yomi · hiragana
Katakana generally indicates on’yomi; hiragana generally indicates kun’yomi. The source does not identify everyday, rare, historical or name use per reading. Kana strings are preserved, including any written endings; consult a Japanese word entry for actual use.
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Source record & scope
Unicode Unihan 17.0.0 · kJapanese ↗ · provisional property
チツ デツ ネチ テツ テチ ふさがる ふさぐKorean 한국어
Hanja readings · Hangul
Source codes are separated below. They are neither sounds nor tones; a character reading alone does not specify a whole word’s pronunciation.
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Reading sources explained
- 질
- KS X 1001 (0) · Personal-name Hanja (N)
Vietnamese Tiếng Việt
Character readings · Quốc ngữ
Vietnamese readings associated with this Han character. This field alone does not establish word meanings, current usage, or a complete account of Hán-Nôm reading traditions.
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Form & structure
Writing & identity
- Unicode
- U+7A92
- Radical
- 穴 · 116
- Strokes
- 11 · Unihan
- Residual
- 6
Source record · Unihan 17.0. Individual senses and historical claims have not yet been reviewed by zimai.
Stroke order
11 strokesModern stroke order; regional conventions can differ. Stroke medians: Make Me a Hanzi via HanziLookupJS, drawn as an even pen line.
Graphical structure
How to read these symbols
⿰ left–right · ⿱ above–below · ⿻ overlap. Dotted boxes indicate positions, not missing characters. Each symbol describes the components that follow it; nested symbols describe a component in more detail. Source codes identify alternative analyses, not a writing sequence or an etymology.
BabelStone IDS · 2025-06-27. Region tags are preserved; 〾 marks approximation and {n} identifies an unencoded source component. These describe graphical structure, not historical derivation.
Words & connections
Words using 窒
Character connections
No reverse component match in this collection.
Component roles · attributed
- 至 sound component · CJKVI analysis
Source analysis · 至聲
Line 15275 · ⿱穴至 · 至聲 · source reference 2720330
Source analyses, kept separate from modern IDS. CJKVI labels are not individually verified historical conclusions. Evidence & limits ↗
History & distinctions
Related forms
No simplified/traditional variant property is retained for this record.
Historical readings
- Middle Chinese
- trit · 陟栗 反切 · #3298
- Middle Chinese
- tet · 丁結 反切 · #3487
Guangyun-based transcriptions · PHONO-ML · CC BY 4.0. These describe historical reading categories, not modern word pronunciation.
Source row & reading categories
CSV line 17006 · trit = 臻開三入眞知 · tet = 山開四入先端
Automatically generated in the source dataset; the authors checked a subset and acknowledge possible errors. All source readings are retained separately. Notation & method ↗
Sources & reference
Evidence & next depth
Retained Unihan properties
- kMandarin
- zhì
- kCantonese
- zat6
- kDefinition
- stop up, obstruct
- kTotalStrokes
- 11
- kRSUnicode
- 116.6
- kTGH
- 2013:2456
Readings across dictionaries
- Hanyu Da Zidian
- zhì,dié 42728.140
- Xiandai Hanyu · 1983
- zhì 1491.050
- Tongyong Guifan · 2013
- zhì 479.100
- Mandarin / Cantonese · SMSZD
- zhì粵zat6
Reference desk
- Fanqie spellings
- 陟栗 丁結
- Kangxi positions
- 0865.110
- Guangyun positions
- 470.09 496.11
- GSR references
- 0413h
- Cangjie
- JCMIG
- Four-corner
- 3010.4