Zi:质
质(F質) [zhì] 物质 matter/substance; 质量 mass; 性质 substance/quality; 典质, 押质 mortgage/pawn
One monosyllabic entry in The ABC Chinese-English Comprehensive Dictionary (namespace Ci):
►⁵zhì 质[質] {C} n. quality ◆b.f. ①nature; character; temperament ►¹xìngzhì 性质 ②matter; substance ►¹wùzhì 物质 ③question ►zhìwèn 质问 ④pawn; mortgage; pledge ⑤hostage ►¹rénzhì 人质 ⑥simple; plain ►¹zhìpǔ 质朴 ⑦sincere; frank
The simple-form character 质 (8 strokes) is an abbrev. of the full-form character 質 (15 strokes), replacing the full-form component 斦 (8 strokes) with 𣂑 (4 strokes), and simplifying 貝 (7 strokes) to 贝 (4 strokes).
Note: In the simple form 质, as in the half-simple (intermediary) variant 貭, the full-form component 斦 (斤 doubled) is abbrev. to simply 𣂑, like the top of 盾.
The Shuōwén Seal form of 质/質() zhì ‘pawn/mortgage’ combines 贝/貝 (bèi) ‘cowrie-shell/money’, and 斦() zhì ‘axe doubled’ (phonosemantic); formerly 斦/質/櫍/鑕 ‘(executioner's) axe and chopping block’, in which 贝/貝 ‘monetary fine/penalty’.
Note: Analysis of 斦() yín/zhì (斤 jīn ‘axe’ doubled) and of its use in 質() are missing in SW (both seem to have been omitted by taboo); cf. 锧/鑕 ‘a guillotine-like execution device with two axes (腰斩), used to cut a person in half’.
Compare: 质/質() zhì ‘pawn/mortgage/guarantee (SW); objective/concrete thing (independent of ideas/promises); (concrete) matter/substance’ (HDZ).
Compare: 贽/贄 zhì ‘gift to one's senior (on first meeting)’; 赇/賕() qiú ‘bribe; gift’ (戴/載質/贄).
Compare: 盾() dùn ‘shield’.
►references: Wieger:128b; Karlgren:AD1227; Hànyǔ Dà Zìdiǎn:6.3627.4; Bǐshùn Guīfàn:084.1.09; EDOC:0
►components: 𣂑贝𠂆十
►Cantonese: jat\
<cdl char='质' uni='8D28' radical='K4 D1'>
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<comp char='贝' uni='8D1D' points='36,56 122,128' />
</cdl>
<cdl char='' uni='E5F1' radical='K0'>
<stroke type='p' points='112,0 26,16' />
<stroke type='wp' points='26,16 0,128' tail='long' />
<stroke type='h' points='26,36 128,36' head='cut' />
<stroke type='s' points='78,18 78,56' tail='cut' />
</cdl>
<cdl char='贝' uni='8D1D' points='4,4 124,128'>
<comp char='冂' uni='5182' variant='5' points='20,0 108,74' />
<stroke type='wp' points='64,28 0,128' tail='long' />
<stroke type='d' points='71,91 128,128' />
</cdl>
<cdl char='冂' uni='5182' variant='5' points='4,4 124,128'>
<stroke type='s' points='0,0 0,128' tail='long' />
<stroke type='hz' points='0,0 128,0 128,128' head='cut' tail='long' />
<!-- variant based on [U+EF7E](V=0) -->
</cdl>
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Unicode: U+8D28
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