"緇" meaning in Chinese

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Character

IPA: /t͡sɹ̩⁵⁵/ [Mandarin, Standard-Chinese, Sinological-IPA], /t͡siː⁵⁵/ [Cantonese, Guangzhou, Sinological-IPA], /t͡sɨ²⁴/ [Hakka, Sixian, Miaoli, Neipu, Sinological-IPA], /t͡sɨ⁵³/ [Hakka, Hailu, Zhudong, Sinological-IPA], /t͡sy⁵⁵/ [Min-Dong, Fuzhou, Sinological-IPA], /t͡so⁵³³/ [Puxian-Min, Sinological-IPA], /t͡so⁵⁴⁴/ [Puxian-Min, Sinological-IPA], /t͡su⁴⁴/ [Min-Nan, Hokkien, Xiamen, Sinological-IPA], /t͡sɯ³³/ [Min-Nan, Teochew, Sinological-IPA], /t͡sɹ̩⁵³/ [Wu, Northern, Chongming, Suzhou, Ningbo, Sinological-IPA], /t͡sɹ̩⁵⁵/ [Wu, Northern, Chongming, Suzhou, Ningbo, Sinological-IPA], /t͡sɹ̩⁴⁴/ [Wu, Northern, Chongming, Suzhou, Ningbo, Sinological-IPA], /t͡sɹ̩⁵⁵/ [Wu, Northern, Chongming, Suzhou, Ningbo, Sinological-IPA], /t͡sɹ̩⁵⁵/ [Wu, Northern, Chongming, Suzhou, Ningbo, Sinological-IPA], /t͡sɹ̩⁴⁴/ [Wu, Northern, Chongming, Suzhou, Ningbo, Sinological-IPA], /t͡sɹ̩⁵²/ [Wu, Northern, Chongming, Suzhou, Ningbo, Sinological-IPA], /t͡sɹ̩⁵²/ [Wu, Northern, Chongming, Suzhou, Ningbo, Sinological-IPA]
Etymology: 緇 (OC *tsrə) "black < color of burnt soil?", possibly same word as 菑 (OC *tsrə) "field cleared by slash and burn" (Schuessler, 2007). See there for etymology. Etymology templates: {{och-l|緇|tr=*tsrə}} 緇 (OC *tsrə), {{och-l|菑|tr=*tsrə}} 菑 (OC *tsrə), {{zh-ref|Schuessler, 2007}} Schuessler, 2007 Head templates: {{head|zh|hanzi}} 緇
  1. (literary) to blacken Tags: literary
    Sense id: en-緇-zh-character-gj6LjQI7
  2. (literary) black Tags: literary
    Sense id: en-緇-zh-character-wAbH46sU
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Categories (other): Chinese entries with incorrect language header, Chinese hanzi, Eastern Min hanzi, Middle Chinese hanzi, Old Chinese hanzi, Pages with 4 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Chinese entries with incorrect language header: 0 0 Disambiguation of Chinese hanzi: 0 0 Disambiguation of Eastern Min hanzi: 0 0 Disambiguation of Middle Chinese hanzi: 0 0 Disambiguation of Old Chinese hanzi: 0 0 Disambiguation of Pages with 4 entries: 0 0 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 0 0 Derived forms: 削髮披緇, 削发披缁, 剪髮披緇, 剪发披缁, 披緇, 披缁, 涅而不緇 (niè'érbùzī), 涅而不缁 (niè'érbùzī), 素衣化緇, 素衣化缁, 緇塵, 缁尘, 緇服, 缁服, 緇流, 缁流, 緇衣, 缁衣, 緇門, 缁门, 緇黃, 缁黄
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          "english": "Is it not said, that, if a thing be really white, it may be steeped in a dark fluid without being made black?",
          "ref": " The Analects of Confucius, c. 475 – 221 BCE",
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          "text": "不曰白乎,涅而不緇。",
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          "english": "How well do the black robes befit you!",
          "ref": " The Classic of Poetry, c. 11ᵗʰ – 7ᵗʰ centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version",
          "roman": "zī yī zhī yí xī",
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      "zh_pron": "ㄗ"
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      "zh_pron": "zi¹"
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      "roman": "czy",
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        "Neipu",
        "Hakka-Romanization-System"
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      "zh_pron": "zii^ˊ"
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      "zh_pron": "zi¹"
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        "Shaoxing"
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        "Northern",
        "Chongming",
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        "Ningbo",
        "Sinological-IPA"
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    },
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        "Tongxiang",
        "Songjiang",
        "Changzhou",
        "Shaoxing"
      ],
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        "Wu",
        "Northern",
        "Chongming",
        "Suzhou",
        "Ningbo",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
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      "tags": [
        "Middle-Chinese"
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      "zh_pron": "tsri"
    },
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        "Baxter-Sagart"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "/*[ts]rə/"
    },
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      "tags": [
        "Old-Chinese",
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      "zh_pron": "/*ʔsrɯ/"
    }
  ],
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}
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    {
      "word": "削髮披緇"
    },
    {
      "word": "削发披缁"
    },
    {
      "word": "剪髮披緇"
    },
    {
      "word": "剪发披缁"
    },
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      "word": "披緇"
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      "word": "披缁"
    },
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      "roman": "niè'érbùzī",
      "word": "涅而不緇"
    },
    {
      "roman": "niè'érbùzī",
      "word": "涅而不缁"
    },
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      "word": "素衣化緇"
    },
    {
      "word": "素衣化缁"
    },
    {
      "word": "緇塵"
    },
    {
      "word": "缁尘"
    },
    {
      "word": "緇服"
    },
    {
      "word": "缁服"
    },
    {
      "word": "緇流"
    },
    {
      "word": "缁流"
    },
    {
      "word": "緇衣"
    },
    {
      "word": "缁衣"
    },
    {
      "word": "緇門"
    },
    {
      "word": "缁门"
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    {
      "word": "緇黃"
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      "word": "缁黄"
    }
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      },
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    },
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      "args": {
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              25,
              27
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              8,
              9
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              108
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          "english": "Is it not said, that, if a thing be really white, it may be steeped in a dark fluid without being made black?",
          "ref": " The Analects of Confucius, c. 475 – 221 BCE",
          "roman": "Bù yuē bái hū, niè ér bù zī.",
          "tags": [
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            "Pinyin"
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          "text": "不曰白乎,涅而不緇。",
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              9
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              108
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          "english": "Is it not said, that, if a thing be really white, it may be steeped in a dark fluid without being made black?",
          "ref": " The Analects of Confucius, c. 475 – 221 BCE",
          "roman": "Bù yuē bái hū, niè ér bù zī.",
          "tags": [
            "Simplified-Chinese",
            "Pinyin"
          ],
          "text": "不曰白乎,涅而不缁。",
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        }
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        "to blacken"
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          "english": "How well do the black robes befit you!",
          "ref": " The Classic of Poetry, c. 11ᵗʰ – 7ᵗʰ centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version",
          "roman": "zī yī zhī yí xī",
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          "english": "How well do the black robes befit you!",
          "ref": " The Classic of Poetry, c. 11ᵗʰ – 7ᵗʰ centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version",
          "roman": "zī yī zhī yí xī",
          "tags": [
            "Simplified-Chinese",
            "Pinyin"
          ],
          "text": "缁衣之宜兮",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "black"
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        [
          "black",
          "black"
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        "(literary) black"
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        "literary"
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      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Pinyin"
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      "zh_pron": "zī (zi¹)"
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      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Bopomofo"
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    },
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        "Cantonese",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "zi¹"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Sixian",
        "Phak-fa-su"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "chṳ̂"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Hailu",
        "Hakka-Romanization-System"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "zii^ˋ"
    },
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      "tags": [
        "Min-Dong",
        "Foochow-Romanized"
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    },
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        "Puxian-Min"
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    },
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        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "POJ"
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      "zh_pron": "chu"
    },
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        "Min-Nan",
        "Teochew",
        "Peng'im"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "ze¹"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Wugniu"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Wu",
        "Northern"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "¹tsy"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "zī"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Bopomofo"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "ㄗ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Tongyong-Pinyin"
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      "zh_pron": "zih"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Wade-Giles"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "tzŭ¹"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "dz̄"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Gwoyeu-Romatsyh"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "tzy"
    },
    {
      "roman": "czy",
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Palladius"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "цзы"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/t͡sɹ̩⁵⁵/",
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
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        "Hong Kong"
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        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Jyutping"
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    },
    {
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        "Hong Kong"
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        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
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      "zh_pron": "jī"
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    {
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        "Hong Kong"
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        "Pinyin"
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    {
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        "Hong Kong"
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        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Guangdong-Romanization"
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      "zh_pron": "ji¹"
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        "Hong Kong"
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      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Sinological-IPA"
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      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Sixian",
        "Miaoli",
        "Neipu",
        "Phak-fa-su"
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    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Sixian",
        "Miaoli",
        "Neipu",
        "Hakka-Romanization-System"
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      "zh_pron": "zii^ˊ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Sixian",
        "Miaoli",
        "Neipu",
        "Hagfa-Pinyim"
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        "Hakka",
        "Sixian",
        "Miaoli",
        "Neipu",
        "Sinological-IPA"
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    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Hailu",
        "Zhudong",
        "Hakka-Romanization-System"
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      "ipa": "/t͡sɨ⁵³/",
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        "Hakka",
        "Hailu",
        "Zhudong",
        "Sinological-IPA"
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    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Dong",
        "Fuzhou",
        "Foochow-Romanized"
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      "zh_pron": "cṳ̆"
    },
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      "ipa": "/t͡sy⁵⁵/",
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        "Min-Dong",
        "Fuzhou",
        "Sinological-IPA"
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        "Putian",
        "Pouseng-Ping'ing"
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        "Puxian-Min"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "zo¹"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
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        "Hinghwa-Romanized"
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        "Puxian-Min"
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        "Putian"
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        "Puxian-Min",
        "Sinological-IPA"
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      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "Xiamen",
        "POJ"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "chu"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "Xiamen",
        "Tai-lo"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "tsu"
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    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "Xiamen",
        "Phofsit-Daibuun"
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    },
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      "ipa": "/t͡su⁴⁴/",
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        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "Xiamen",
        "Sinological-IPA"
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    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Teochew",
        "Peng'im"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "ze¹"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Teochew",
        "POJ"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "tsṳ"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/t͡sɯ³³/",
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Teochew",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
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        "Tongxiang",
        "Songjiang",
        "Changzhou",
        "Shaoxing",
        "Wugniu"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Wu",
        "Northern",
        "Chongming",
        "Suzhou",
        "Ningbo"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "¹tsy"
    },
    {
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        "Yixing",
        "Tongxiang",
        "Songjiang",
        "Changzhou",
        "Shaoxing",
        "MiniDict"
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        "Wu",
        "Northern",
        "Chongming",
        "Suzhou",
        "Ningbo"
      ],
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    },
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        "Yixing",
        "Tongxiang",
        "Songjiang",
        "Changzhou",
        "Shaoxing",
        "Songjiang"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Wu",
        "Northern",
        "Chongming",
        "Suzhou",
        "Ningbo",
        "Sinological-IPA"
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        "Tongxiang",
        "Songjiang",
        "Changzhou",
        "Shaoxing"
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        "Wu",
        "Northern",
        "Chongming",
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        "Ningbo",
        "Sinological-IPA"
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    {
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        "Yixing",
        "Tongxiang",
        "Songjiang",
        "Changzhou",
        "Shaoxing"
      ],
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        "Wu",
        "Northern",
        "Chongming",
        "Suzhou",
        "Ningbo",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/t͡sɹ̩⁵⁵/",
      "raw_tags": [
        "Yixing",
        "Tongxiang",
        "Songjiang",
        "Changzhou",
        "Shaoxing"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Wu",
        "Northern",
        "Chongming",
        "Suzhou",
        "Ningbo",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/t͡sɹ̩⁵⁵/",
      "raw_tags": [
        "Yixing",
        "Tongxiang",
        "Songjiang",
        "Changzhou",
        "Shaoxing",
        "Changzhou"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Wu",
        "Northern",
        "Chongming",
        "Suzhou",
        "Ningbo",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/t͡sɹ̩⁴⁴/",
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        "Yixing",
        "Tongxiang",
        "Songjiang",
        "Changzhou",
        "Shaoxing"
      ],
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        "Wu",
        "Northern",
        "Chongming",
        "Suzhou",
        "Ningbo",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/t͡sɹ̩⁵²/",
      "raw_tags": [
        "Yixing",
        "Tongxiang",
        "Songjiang",
        "Changzhou",
        "Shaoxing",
        "Shaoxing"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Wu",
        "Northern",
        "Chongming",
        "Suzhou",
        "Ningbo",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/t͡sɹ̩⁵²/",
      "raw_tags": [
        "Yixing",
        "Tongxiang",
        "Songjiang",
        "Changzhou",
        "Shaoxing"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Wu",
        "Northern",
        "Chongming",
        "Suzhou",
        "Ningbo",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Middle-Chinese"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "tsri"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Old-Chinese",
        "Baxter-Sagart"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "/*[ts]rə/"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Old-Chinese",
        "Zhengzhang"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "/*ʔsrɯ/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "緇"
}

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