A question about じる verbs

I’ve been noticing that every verb which consists of a kanji followed by じる such as 感じる, 存じる, and 禁じる all use the on’yomi reading of the kanji which leads me to believe that the じ in じる corresponds to another kanji but is always written in kana form. Is this the case and if so, which kanji is it?

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じる comes from ずる (which you will also encounter) and that comes from する. Yes, that する, so, not an onyomi.

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Interesting, so it’s an old form of する verbs using Chinese readings of the kanji.

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