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巳

巳

See also: 己 and 已

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

巳 (radical 49 己+0, 3 strokes, cangjie input 口山 (RU), four-corner 77717)

  1. sixth of twelve earthly branches (十二支): snake (蛇) of Chinese zodiac

Derived characters

  • Index:Chinese radical/己
  • 包 (Chinese form)
  • 导

References

  • KangXi: page 326, character 12
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 8744
  • Dae Jaweon: page 631, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 984, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+5DF3

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 巳

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 巳
Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (巳) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
巳 *ljɯʔ, *lɯs
祀 *ljɯʔ
汜 *ljɯʔ
戺 *zrɯʔ
起 *kʰɯʔ
熙 *qʰlɯ
媐 *qʰlɯ, *lɯ
圯 *lɯ
异 *lɯ, *lɯs
巸 *lɯ

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 巳 巳 巳
Reading # 1/3 2/3 3/3
Initial (聲) 以 (36) 邪 (17) 以 (36)
Final (韻) 之 (19) 之 (19) 之 (19)
Tone (調) Rising (X) Rising (X) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open Open Open
Division (等) III III III
Fanqie 羊己切 詳里切 羊吏切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /jɨX/ /zɨX/ /jɨH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /jɨX/ /zɨX/ /jɨH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ieX/ /zieX/ /ieH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /jɨX/ /zɨX/ /jɨH/
Li
Rong		 /iəX/ /ziəX/ /iəH/
Wang
Li		 /jĭəX/ /zĭəX/ /jĭəH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /iX/ /ziX/ /iH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 yǐ sì yì
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 巳
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 sì
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ ziX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*s-[ɢ]əʔ/
English 6th earthly branch

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 巳 巳
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 12007 12018
Phonetic
component		 巳 巳
Rime
group		 之 之
Rime
subdivision		 0 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 似 異
Old
Chinese		 /*ljɯʔ/ /*lɯs/

Definitions

巳

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Compounds

References

Japanese

Kanji

巳

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

  1. sign of the snake

Readings

Noun

巳 ‎(hiragana み, romaji mi)

  1. the sign of the snake in the Chinese zodiac

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

巳 (tị, anh)

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