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史

史

史 U+53F2, 史
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-53F2
← 叱
[U+53F1] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 右 →
[U+53F3]
See also: 吏 and 更

Translingual

Han character

史 (radical 30 口+2, 5 strokes, cangjie input 中大 (LK), four-corner 50006)

  1. history, chronicle, annals

References

  • KangXi: page 173, character 3
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3249
  • Dae Jaweon: page 384, character 4
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 571, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+53F2

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 史

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 史
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (史) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
吏 *rɯs
倳 *ʔsrɯs
剚 *ʔsrɯs
事 *ʔsrɯs, *zrɯs
史 *srɯʔ
使 *srɯʔ, *srɯs
駛 *srɯʔ, *srɯs

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 史
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 生 (21)
Final (韻) 之 (19)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 踈士切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ʃɨX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ʃɨX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ʃieX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ʂɨX/
Li
Rong		 /ʃiəX/
Wang
Li		 /ʃĭəX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ʂiX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 shǐ
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 史
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 shǐ
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ sriX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*s-rəʔ/
English scribe

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 史
Reading # 1/1
No. 11487
Phonetic
component		 史
Rime
group		 之
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 史
Old
Chinese		 /*srɯʔ/

Definitions

史

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Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

史

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. record, recording
  2. history

Readings

Proper noun

史 ‎(hiragana ひろし, romaji Hiroshi)

  1. A male given name

Korean

Hanja

史 • ‎(sa) (hangeul 사, revised sa, McCune-Reischauer sa, Yale sa)

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Vietnamese

Han character

史 (sử, minh)

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