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指 (Kangxi radical 64, 手+6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 手心日 (QPA), four-corner 5106₁, composition ⿰扌旨)

Kangxi Dictionary: page 429, character 20
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 12034
Dae Jaweon: page 778, character 15
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1873, character 5
Unihan data for U+6307

trad.		指
simp. ^#		指
alternative forms		𢫾

	Old Chinese
稽	kiː, kʰiːʔ
詣	*ŋɡiːs
栺	ŋɡiːs, kji
榰	*klje
脂	*kji
鴲	kji, kjis
指	*kjiʔ
旨	*kjiʔ
恉	*kjiʔ
嗜	*ɡjis
蓍	*qʰlji
鰭	*ɡri
耆	*ɡri
鮨	*ɡri
鬐	*ɡri

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *kjiʔ) : semantic 手 + phonetic 旨 (OC *kjiʔ).

Mandarin
(Standard)
(Pinyin): zhǐ (zhi³)

(Zhuyin): ㄓˇ

(Chengdu, Sichuanese Pinyin): zi³

(Dungan, Cyrillic and Wiktionary): зы (zɨ, I)
Cantonese
(Guangzhou–Hong Kong, Jyutping): zi²

(Taishan, Wiktionary): zi²
Gan (Wiktionary): zi³
Hakka
(Sixian, PFS): chṳ́

(Meixian, Guangdong): zi³
Jin (Wiktionary): zeh⁴
Northern Min (KCR): gǐ
Eastern Min (BUC): cī
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): kí / chái / cháiⁿ / chúiⁿ / chán / chí

(Teochew, Peng'im): zi² / zoin² / zain² / gi² / zeng²
Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁵tsy
Xiang (Changsha, Wiktionary): zhr⁶

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: zhǐ
  - Zhuyin: ㄓˇ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: jhǐh
  - Wade–Giles: chih³
  - Yale: jř
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jyy
  - Palladius: чжи (čži)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʐ̩²¹⁴/
- (Chengdu)
  - Sichuanese Pinyin: zi³
  - Scuanxua Ladinxua Xin Wenz: z
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sz̩⁵³/
- (Dungan)
  - Cyrillic and Wiktionary: зы (zɨ, I)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sz̩²⁴/
  (Note: Dungan pronunciation is currently experimental and may be inaccurate.)
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: zi²
  - Yale: jí
  - Cantonese Pinyin: dzi²
  - Guangdong Romanization: ji²
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡siː³⁵/
- (Taishanese, Taicheng)
  - Wiktionary: zi²
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡si⁵⁵/
Gan
- (Nanchang)
  - Wiktionary: zi³
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sz̩²¹³/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chṳ́
  - Hakka Romanization System: zii^ˋ
  - Hagfa Pinyim: zi³
  - Sinological IPA: /t͡sɨ³¹/
- (Meixian)
  - Guangdong: zi³
  - Sinological IPA: /t͡sz̩³¹/
Jin
- (Taiyuan)⁺
  - Wiktionary: zeh⁴
  - Sinological IPA (old-style): /t͡səʔ²/
Northern Min
- (Jian'ou)
  - Kienning Colloquial Romanized: gǐ
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ki²¹/
Eastern Min
- (Fuzhou)
  - Bàng-uâ-cê: cī
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡si³³/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, Jinjiang, Nan'an, Hui'an, Changtai, Zhangpu, Longyan, General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kí
  - Tâi-lô: kí
  - Phofsit Daibuun: kie
  - IPA (Hui'an): /ki⁵⁴/
  - IPA (Longyan): /ki²¹/
  - IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Changtai, Zhangpu, Taipei): /ki⁵³/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /ki⁴¹/
  - IPA (Quanzhou, Jinjiang, Nan'an): /ki⁵⁵⁴/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Zhangpu, Longyan, Kinmen)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chái
  - Tâi-lô: tsái
  - Phofsit Daibuun: zae
  - IPA (Longyan): /t͡sai²¹/
  - IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Zhangpu, Kinmen): /t͡sai⁵³/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Changtai, Taipei, Kaohsiung, Tainan, Taichung, Hsinchu, Sanxia, Yilan)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: cháiⁿ
  - Tâi-lô: tsáinn
  - Phofsit Daibuun: zvae
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡sãi⁴¹/
  - IPA (Xiamen, Changtai, Taipei, Tainan, Yilan): /t͡sãi⁵³/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Jinjiang, Hui'an, Nan'an, Lukang)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chúiⁿ
  - Tâi-lô: tsuínn
  - Phofsit Daibuun: zvuie
  - IPA (Lukang): /t͡suĩ⁵⁵/
  - IPA (Quanzhou, Jinjiang, Nan'an): /t͡suĩ⁵⁵⁴/
  - IPA (Hui'an): /t͡suĩ⁵⁴/
- (Hokkien: Magong)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chán
  - Tâi-lô: tsán
  - Phofsit Daibuun: zarn
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, Jinjiang, Nan'an, Hui'an, Changtai, Zhangpu, Longyan, General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chí
  - Tâi-lô: tsí
  - Phofsit Daibuun: cie
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡si⁴¹/
  - IPA (Hui'an): /t͡si⁵⁴/
  - IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Changtai, Zhangpu, Taipei): /t͡si⁵³/
  - IPA (Quanzhou, Jinjiang, Nan'an): /t͡si⁵⁵⁴/
  - IPA (Longyan): /t͡si²¹/

Note:

kí, chái/cháiⁿ/chúiⁿ/chán - vernacular;
chí - literary.

(Teochew)
- Peng'im: zi² / zoin² / zain² / gi² / zeng²
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tsí / tsóiⁿ / tsáiⁿ / kí / tsṳ́ng
- Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡si⁵²/, /t͡sõĩ⁵²/, /t͡sãĩ⁵²/, /ki⁵²/, /t͡sɯŋ⁵²/

Note:

zi2 - literary;
zoin2/zain2 - vernacular (“finger”);
zoin2 - Chaozhou, Shantou;
zain2 - Jieyang;
gi2 - vernacular (“to point”);
zeng2 - colloquial (俗).

Wu
- (Northern: Shanghai)
  - Wugniu: ⁵tsy
  - MiniDict: tsy^去
  - Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ²tsr
  - Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /t͡sz̩³⁴/
Xiang
- (Changsha)
  - Wiktionary: zhr⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key) (old-style): /ʈ͡ʂʐ̩²⁴/
  - Sinological IPA ^(key) (new-style): /t͡sz̩²⁴/

Middle Chinese: tsyijX

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*mə.kijʔ/

(Zhengzhang): /*kjiʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	指
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	zhǐ
Middle Chinese	‹ tsyij^X ›
Old Chinese	/*mə.kijʔ/
English	finger; point
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. [t] as coda may in fact be -t or -p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	指
Reading #	1/1
No.	17325
Phonetic component	旨
Rime group	脂
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	旨
Old Chinese	/*kjiʔ/

指

finger (Classifier: 個／个 mn-t)
手指 ― shǒuzhǐ ― finger
to point; to point out; to aim
指出 ― zhǐchū ― to point out

指人 ― zhǐ rén ― to point at a person
to indicate; to show; to demonstrate
to refer to; to mean
春天指的是冬天後面的那個季節。 [MSC, trad.]
春天指的是冬天后面的那个季节。 [MSC, simp.]
Chūntiān zhǐ de shì dōngtiān hòumiàn de nàge jìjié. [Pinyin]
Spring refers to the season after winter.
to rely on; to depend on
to criticize; to rebuke
to make one’s hair stand on end
Classifier for fingerwidths.

(finger): 手指 (shǒuzhǐ)

Dialectal synonyms of 手指 (“finger”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical Chinese		指
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		手指
Northeastern Mandarin	Beijing	手指頭
	Taiwan	手指, 手指頭
	Hulunbuir (Hailar)	手指頭
	Harbin	手指頭
	Shenyang	手指頭
	Singapore	手指
Jilu Mandarin	Jinan	手指頭, 手指
Jiaoliao Mandarin	Yantai (Muping)	手指頭兒, 指頭
Central Plains Mandarin	Luoyang	指頭
	Wanrong	手圪頭
	Zhengzhou	手指頭
	Xi'an	手指頭, 指頭
	Xining	手指頭
	Xuzhou	手指頭, 手指
	Sokuluk (Gansu Dungan)	指頭
Lanyin Mandarin	Yinchuan	指頭
	Lanzhou	手指頭
	Ürümqi	手指頭
Southwestern Mandarin	Chengdu	手指拇兒, 手指
	Wuhan	指甲
	Guiyang	手指頭
	Kunming	手指頭
	Guilin	指媽
	Liuzhou	手指頭, 手指
Jianghuai Mandarin	Nanjing	手指抹頭, 手指頭
	Yangzhou	麻則, 手則頭, 則頭
	Nantong	手爪兒, 手折頭, 手折末頭兒
	Hefei	末爪頭, 末爪頭子, 手爪子
	Huanggang	指丫兒
Cantonese	Guangzhou	手指
	Hong Kong	手指
	Hong Kong (San Tin Weitou)	手指
	Hong Kong (Kam Tin Weitou)	手指
	Hong Kong (Ting Kok)	手指
	Hong Kong (Tung Ping Chau)	手指
	Macau	手指
	Guangzhou (Panyu)	手指
	Guangzhou (Huashan, Huadu)	手指
	Guangzhou (Conghua)	手指頭
	Guangzhou (Zengcheng)	手指
	Foshan	手指
	Foshan (Shatou, Nanhai)	手指
	Foshan (Shunde)	手指
	Foshan (Sanshui)	手指
	Foshan (Mingcheng, Gaoming)	手指
	Zhongshan (Shiqi)	手指
	Zhuhai (Qianshan, Xiangzhou)	手指
	Zhuhai (Shangheng, Doumen; Tanka)	手指
	Zhuhai (Doumen)	手指
	Jiangmen (Baisha)	手指
	Jiangmen (Xinhui)	手指
	Taishan	手指, 手仔
	Kaiping (Chikan)	手指
	Enping (Niujiang)	手指
	Heshan (Yayao)	手指
	Dongguan	手指
	Shenzhen (Shajing, Bao'an)	手指
	Shenzhen (Dapeng)	手指
	Shaoguan	手指
	Yunfu	手指
	Yangjiang	手指
	Xinyi	手指
	Lianjiang	手指
	Nanning	手指
	Wuzhou	手指
	Yulin	手兒
	Hepu (Lianzhou)	手指
	Kuala Lumpur (Guangfu)	手指
	Ho Chi Minh City (Guangfu)	手指
Gan	Nanchang	指頭子, 指頭, 手指頭, 指姆頭子
	Lichuan	手節
	Pingxiang	手指腦
Hakka	Meixian	手指
	Huizhou (Huicheng Bendihua)	手指
	Dongguan (Qingxi)	手指
	Shenzhen (Shatoujiao)	手指
	Zhongshan (Nanlang Heshui)	手指
	Heyuan (Bendihua)	手指
	Liannan	手指
	Guangzhou (Lütian, Conghua)	手指
	Jiexi	手指頭
	Changting	手指頭
	Yudu	手指
	Shicheng	手指腦
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	手指
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	手指
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	手指
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	手指
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	手指
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	手指頭, 手指
	Hong Kong	手指仔
	Luchuan (Daqiao)	手指
	Senai (Huiyang)	手指
	Singkawang	手指
Huizhou	Jixi	指頭, 手指頭
	Shexian	手美頭, 手指頭
	Huangshan (Tunxi)	指指兒, 手指指兒頭
	Xiuning	手指指兒
	Yixian	手指頭兒
	Qimen	手指
	Wuyuan	手指頭
Jin	Taiyuan	手指頭, 指頭兒
	Pingyao	指頭兒
	Xinzhou	指頭
	Hohhot	指頭子
Northern Min	Jian'ou	手指仔
	Jian'ou (Dikou)	手仔
	Zhenghe (Zhenqian)	手仔
	Pucheng (Shibei)	手指仔, 手爪仔
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	掌指, 手掌指, 手指
	Fuzhou (Changle)	掌指
	Fuqing	手掌指
	Yongtai	掌指
	Gutian	掌指
	Fu'an	掌頭
	Ningde	掌頭
	Shouning	掌頭囝
	Zhouning	掌頭
	Fuding	掌頭囝
	Matsu	掌指, 手掌指
Southern Min	Xiamen	掌頭仔, 手爪
	Quanzhou	掌頭仔, 手爪
	Jinjiang	掌頭仔
	Anxi	掌頭仔
	Yongchun	掌頭囝
	Dehua	掌頭囝
	Zhangzhou	手掌頭仔, 手掌指仔, 手掌指, 掌頭仔, 掌指仔, 掌指, 手爪, 手指
	Zhangzhou (Changtai)	掌頭仔
	Zhao'an	手掌指仔
	Dongshan	手掌頭仔
	Taipei	掌頭仔
	New Taipei (Sanxia)	掌頭仔
	Kaohsiung	掌頭仔
	Yilan	掌頭仔
	Changhua (Lukang)	掌頭仔
	Taichung	掌頭仔
	Tainan	掌頭仔
	Hsinchu	掌頭仔
	Kinmen	掌頭仔
	Penghu (Magong)	掌頭仔
	Penang (Hokkien)	手指, 惹捚
	Singapore (Hokkien)	手掌頭仔, 掌頭仔, 手爪
	Manila (Hokkien)	掌頭仔
	Longyan	手指仔
	Zhangping	手指
	Zhangping (Yongfu)	手指仔
	Datian	手指頭
	Pingnan (Shangdu)	手指
	Chaozhou	手指
	Shantou	手指
	Jieyang	指
	Haifeng	手指仔
	Bangkok (Teochew)	手指
	Ho Chi Minh City (Teochew)	指
	Johor Bahru (Teochew)	手指
	Singapore (Teochew)	手指
	Leizhou	手囝
	Wenchang	手囝
	Haikou	手囝
Puxian Min	Putian	手指頭
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	手指, 手指頭
Northern Pinghua	Guilin (Dahe)	手指
Shehua	Fu'an	手仔
	Fuding	手仔
	Luoyuan	手仔
	Sanming	手仔
	Shunchang	手仔
	Hua'an	手指
	Guixi (Zhangping)	手指仔
	Cangnan	手仔
	Jingning (Hexi)	手指仔
	Lishui	手仔
	Longyou	手仔
	Chaozhou	手指
	Fengshun	手指
Wu	Shanghai	手節頭, 手指頭, 節頭官, 節頭骨
	Shanghai (Chongming)	手節頭, 節頭
	Suzhou	手節頭
	Wuxi	手節頭
	Danyang	指頭, 手指頭, 手拇指頭
	Hangzhou	手指頭兒, 手指頭
	Ningbo	指末頭, 手指末頭
	Wenzhou	手指頭兒, 指頭兒
	Jinhua	手拇執頭, 手指頭
	Jinhua (Tangxi)	手末節頭
Xiang	Changsha	手指腦, 手指拇
	Xiangtan	手指腦
	Loudi	手指腦
	Shuangfeng	手指腦
	Hengyang	手指腦
	Quanzhou	手指頭

(to point): 點明／点明 (diǎnmíng)
(to rely on):

仗恃 (zhàngshì) (literary, chiefly derogatory)
仰仗 (yǎngzhàng)
仰賴／仰赖 (yǎnglài)
依 (yī)
依仗 (yīzhàng)
依倚 (Hokkien)
依恃 (yīshì) (literary)
依歸／依归 (yīguī) (literary)
依託／依托 (yītuō)
依賴／依赖 (yīlài)
依附 (yīfù)
依靠 (yīkào)
倚仗 (yǐzhàng)
倚倚 (Xiamen Hokkien, Zhangzhou Hokkien)
借助 (jièzhù)
倚賴／倚赖 (yǐlài)
倚靠 (yǐkào)
寄 (jì)
展品棒 (Zhangzhou Hokkien)
怙恃 (hùshì) (literary)
憑／凭 (píng)
憑仗／凭仗 (píngzhàng)
憑依／凭依 (píngyī)
憑借／凭借 (píngjiè)
憑恃／凭恃 (píngshì)
憑靠／凭靠 (píngkào)
據／据
歸依／归依 (guīyī) (literary)
聊 (liáo) (formal)
賴／赖 (lài) (literary, or in compounds only)

→ Thai: ชี้ (chíi, “to point”)

指

(Third grade kyōiku kanji)

Go-on: し (shi, Jōyō)
Kan-on: し (shi, Jōyō)
Kun: ゆび (yubi, 指, Jōyō)、さす (sasu, 指す, Jōyō)
Nanori: むね (mune)

Kanji in this term
指
ゆび Grade: 3
kun'yomi

From Old Japanese, from Proto-Japonic *oyonpE.

(Tokyo) ゆび [yùbíꜜ] (Odaka – [2])^[1]^[2]
IPA^(key): [jɯ̟bʲi]

指(ゆび) • (yubi) (counter 本)

a finger (including thumb)

(alternative reading hiragana および, rōmaji oyobi)

a finger

親(おや)指(ゆび) (oyayubi): thumb
人(ひと)差(さ)し指(ゆび) (hitosashiyubi): forefinger, index finger
中(なか)指(ゆび) (nakayubi): long finger, middle finger
薬(くすり)指(ゆび) (kusuriyubi): ring finger, medical finger, the third finger (UK), the fourth finger (US)
小(こ)指(ゆび) (koyubi): little finger, ear-finger, pinkie
指(ゆび)関(かん)節(せつ) (yubikansetsu): knuckle, finger joint
足(あし)指(ゆび) (ashiyubi), 足(あし)の指(ゆび) (ashi no yubi): toe

Minamoto, Shitagō with Kyōto Daigaku Bungakubu Kokugogaku Kokubungaku Kenkyūshitu (931–938) Shohon Shūsei Wamyō Ruijushō: Honbunhen (in Japanese), Kyōto: Rinsen, published 1968, →ISBN.