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什

什

什 U+4EC0, 什
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-4EC0
← 亿
[U+4EBF] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 仁 →
[U+4EC1]
See also: 甚

Translingual

Stroke order
Stroke order

Han character

什 (radical 9 人+2, 4 strokes, cangjie input 人十 (OJ), four-corner 24200, composition ⿰亻十)

  1. file of ten soldiers
  2. 10

References

  • KangXi: page 91, character 6
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 348
  • Dae Jaweon: page 192, character 6
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 108, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+4EC0

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 什

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 什
Large seal script

L38517
Small seal script

s05782
References:

Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation),
which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including:

  • Shuowen Jiezi (small seal),
  • Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions),
  • Liushutong (large seal) and
  • Xu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).
Characters in the same phonetic series (十) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
針 *kjum, *kjums
汁 *kjub
卙 *kʰljub
十 *ɡjub
什 *ɡjub

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 什
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 常 (25)
Final (韻) 緝 (141)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 是執切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /d͡ʑiɪp̚/
Pan
Wuyun		 /d͡ʑip̚/
Shao
Rongfen		 /d͡ʑjep̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /d͡ʑip̚/
Li
Rong		 /ʑiəp̚/
Wang
Li		 /ʑĭĕp̚/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ʑi̯əp̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 shí
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 什
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 shí
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ dzyip ›
Old
Chinese		 /*t.[ɡ]əp/
English troop of ten men

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 什
Reading # 1/1
No. 11453
Phonetic
component		 十
Rime
group		 緝
Rime
subdivision		 3
Corresponding
MC rime		 十
Old
Chinese		 /*ɡjub/

Numeral

什

  1. ten (used in fractions)

Adjective

什

  1. miscellaneous, assorted

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

什

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

什 • ‎(sip, jip) (hangeul 십, 집, revised sip, jip, McCune-Reischauer sip, chip)

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Vietnamese

Han character

什 (thập, lặt, thậm)

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References

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