Zi:自
自 [zì] (自己 zìjǐ) self; from, since; 自然 zìrán nature
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Picture of a nose: one points to one’s nose to indicate oneself in China.
“(Breath:) self; personally; by itself, naturally; (pass out:) out from, from ...picture of the nose in a human face (and means ‘nose’ e.g. in 鼻); breath > self, cf. Sanskrit atman- ‘breath’ and ‘self’; in compounds often contracted into 白, e.g. 皇, 習” —Karlgren.
The modern word for nose is 鼻 bí, from 自 and 畀 bì phonetic. 自 is also a component in 息 xī ‘breath’, 臭 xiù ‘smell’, 咱 zán ‘we’, etc.
►references: Guǎngyùn:355.48; Wieger:159a; Henshall:134; Karlgren:AD1091,GSR1237m; Hànyǔ Dà Zìdiǎn:5.3046.1; Lindqvist:33; Mathews:6960; Kāngxī Zìdiǎn:1000.07; Bǐshùn Guīfàn:031.0.01; Wáng(1993):12; EDOC:1
►components: 丿目
►Cantonese: jih-
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