Zi:只
只 [zhǐ] only [zhī] (F隻) (量词) measure word (一只猫 ‘a cat’, 三只鸡 ‘three chickens’); (HDZ:) …
2 monosyllabic entries in The ABC Chinese-English Comprehensive Dictionary (namespace Ci):
►¹zhǐ* 只[-/祇] {A} adv. only; merely ‖ Wọ̌ ∼ qùguo yị̄ cì. 我∼去过一次。 I've been there only once.
►²zhī 只[隻] {A} m. (for animals, vessels, some utensils, one of a pair of things) ◆b.f. single ►zhīzìwèití 只字未提
The character 只 zhǐ ‘only’ is an old form (with various old usages), also used in place of 隻 zhī (measure word); today 只 replaces 隻 among simple-form characters (except as a component, cf. 隻).
The Shuōwén Seal form of 只 zhǐ ‘(final part.) finished/exclamation’ combines 口 kǒu ‘mouth’ (spoken gr. funct. word), and 八 bā ‘distinguish’ (as in 兮, 分别).
Note: (诗) (柏舟) 母也天只、不諒人只 “O mother, O Heaven, Why will you not understand me?” (Legge)
Compare: 双/雙 shuāng ‘pair of birds’.
Note: As a component in simplified characters, 只 usually replaces 戠, but in one case replaces 責.
Compare: 帜/幟, 炽/熾, 织/織, 职/職, 识/識; 积/積.
HDZ: 只 : zhǐ : (语气词) (终结, 感叹 (cf. 只且); 限止, 耳; …); (代词) 這; 咫; (姓); 作/做 (cf. 制); (副词) (只, 仅; 就; 本, 本来); (助词) 着 • zhī : (简体) 隻
►references: Guǎngyùn:040.38,240.27; Wieger:72a,168g; Karlgren:AD1213,1265a,GSR865a; Hànyǔ Dà Zìdiǎn:1.570.3; Mathews:946; Kāngxī Zìdiǎn:172.05; Bǐshùn Guīfàn:015.0.08; Wáng(1993):68; EDOC:1
►components: 口八
►Cantonese: jek-
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</cdl>
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<!-- 2013-09-04T18:45:35Z -->
</cdl>
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Unicode: U+53EA
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