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嗣

嗣

嗣 U+55E3, 嗣
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-55E3
← 嗢
[U+55E2] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 嗤 →
[U+55E4]

Translingual

Han character

嗣 (radical 30 口+10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 口月尸一口 (RBSMR), four-corner 67220, composition ⿰⿱口𠕁司)

  1. to connect, inherit
  2. descendants, heirs

References

  • KangXi: page 203, character 30
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 4109
  • Dae Jaweon: page 426, character 10
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 667, character 11
  • Unihan data for U+55E3

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 嗣

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (司) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
司 *slɯ
伺 *slɯ, *slɯs
覗 *slɯ, *slɯs
笥 *slɯ, *slɯs
詞 *ljɯ
祠 *ljɯ
柌 *ljɯ
嗣 *ljɯs
孠 *ljɯs
飼 *ljɯs
呞 *hljɯ

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 嗣
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 邪 (17)
Final (韻) 之 (19)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 祥吏切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /zɨH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /zɨH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /zieH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /zɨH/
Li
Rong		 /ziəH/
Wang
Li		 /zĭəH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ziH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 sì
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 嗣
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 sì
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ ziH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*sə.lə-s/
English succeed, inherit

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 嗣
Reading # 1/1
No. 11961
Phonetic
component		 司
Rime
group		 之
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 寺
Old
Chinese		 /*ljɯs/

Definitions

嗣

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Japanese

Kanji

嗣

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

嗣 • ‎(sa) (hangeul 사, revised sa, McCune-Reischauer sa)

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Vietnamese

Han character

嗣 (tự)

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