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戲

戲

See also: 戯 and 戏

Translingual

Traditional 戲
Shinjitai 戯
Simplified 戏

Han character

戲 (radical 62 戈+13, 17 strokes, cangjie input 卜廿戈 (YTI), four-corner 23250, composition ⿰䖒戈)

References

Chinese

trad. 戲
simp. 戏
alt. forms 戯

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (虍) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
唬 *qʰraːs, *kʷraːɡ
戲 *qʰral, *qʰrals, *qʰaː
巇 *qʰra
隵 *qʰra
嚱 *qʰras
盧 *b·raː
鑪 *raː
壚 *raː
籚 *raː
蘆 *raː, *ra
顱 *b·raː
髗 *b·raː
鱸 *raː
攎 *raː
櫨 *raː
轤 *raː
黸 *raː
獹 *raː
鸕 *raː
艫 *raː
纑 *raː
瀘 *raː
瓐 *raː
爐 *raː
嚧 *raː
矑 *b·raː
罏 *raː
蠦 *raː
虜 *raːʔ
擄 *raːʔ
艣 *raːʔ
鐪 *raːʔ
虖 *qʰaː, *qʰʷa, *qʰaː, *qʰʷa
虍 *qʰaː
雐 *qʰʷlaː
虎 *qʰlaːʔ
琥 *qʰlaːʔ
萀 *qʰlaːʔ
臚 *b·ra
廬 *ra
驢 *b·ra
藘 *ra
爈 *ra, *ras
櫖 *ra, *ras
儢 *raʔ
慮 *ras
勴 *ras
鑢 *ras
濾 *ras
攄 *r̥ʰa
處 *kʰljaʔ, *kʰljas
豦 *kas, *ɡa
據 *kas
鐻 *kas, *ɡa, *ɡaʔ
澽 *kas, *ɡas
虛 *kʰa, *qʰa
墟 *kʰa
懅 *ɡa
蘧 *ɡa, *ɡʷa
籧 *ɡa
醵 *ɡa, *ɡas, *ɡaɡ
璩 *ɡa
虡 *ɡaʔ
遽 *ɡas
勮 *ɡas
嘘 *qʰa, *qʰas
驉 *qʰa
歔 *qʰa
魖 *qʰa
膚 *pla
虧 *kʰʷral
噱 *ɡaɡ
臄 *ɡaɡ
劇 *ɡaɡ
諕 *qʰʷraːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *qʰral, *qʰrals, *qʰaː) : phonetic 䖒 + semantic 戈.

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 戲
Mandarin Beijing /ɕi⁵¹/
Harbin /ɕi⁵³/
Tianjin /ɕi⁵³/
Jinan /ɕi²¹/
Qingdao /ɕi⁴²/
Zhengzhou /ɕi³¹²/
Xi'an /ɕi⁴⁴/
Xining /ɕji²¹³/
Yinchuan /ɕi¹³/
Lanzhou /ɕi¹³/
Ürümqi /ɕi⁵¹/
Wuhan /ɕi³⁵/
Chengdu /ɕi¹³/
Guiyang /ɕi²¹³/
Kunming /ɕi²¹²/
Nanjing /ɕi⁴⁴/
Hefei /sz̩⁵³/
Jin Taiyuan /ɕi⁴⁵/
Pingyao /ɕi³⁵/
Hohhot /ɕi⁵⁵/
Wu Shanghai /ɕi³⁵/
Suzhou /ɕi⁵¹³/
Hangzhou /ɕi⁴⁴⁵/
Wenzhou /sz̩⁴²/
Hui Shexian /ɕi³²⁴/
Tunxi /ɕi⁴²/
Xiang Changsha /ɕi⁵⁵/
Xiangtan /ɕi⁵⁵/
Gan Nanchang /ɕi⁴⁵/
Hakka Meixian /hi⁵³/
Taoyuan /hi⁵⁵/
Cantonese Guangzhou /hei³³/
Nanning /hi³³/
Hong Kong /hei³³/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /hi²¹/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /hiɛ²¹²/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /xi³³/
Shantou (Min Nan) /hi²¹³/
Haikou (Min Nan) /hi³⁵/
Rime
Character 戲 戲 戲
Reading # 1/3 2/3 3/3
Initial (聲) 曉 (32) 曉 (32) 曉 (32)
Final (韻) 支 (13) 模 (23) 支 (13)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Level (Ø) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open Open Open
Division (等) Chongniu III I Chongniu III
Fanqie 許羈切 荒烏切 香義切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /hˠiᴇ/ /huo/ /hˠiᴇH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /hᵚiɛ/ /huo/ /hᵚiɛH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /xiɛ/ /xo/ /xiɛH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /hjiə̆/ /hɔ/ /hjiə̆H/
Li
Rong		 /xje/ /xo/ /xjeH/
Wang
Li		 /xǐe/ /xu/ /xǐeH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /xie̯/ /xuo/ /xie̯H/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 xī hū xì
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 戲
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 xì
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ xjeH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*ŋ̊(r)ar-s/
English sport, joke

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 戲 戲 戲
Reading # 1/3 2/3 3/3
No. 5194 5195 5227
Phonetic
component		 虍 虍 虍
Rime
group		 歌 歌 魚
Rime
subdivision		 1 1 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 犧 戲 呼
Old
Chinese		 /*qʰral/ /*qʰrals/ /*qʰaː/
Notes 古文呼字

Definitions

戲

  1. to play; to amuse; to have fun
  2. to tease; to chaff
  3. theatrical play; show; theater; opera   (Classifier: 齣／出; 部 m)
    Synonyms: 劇／剧 (jù)
  4. (figuratively) interesting part; hope

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

戲

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 戯)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

戲 • ‎(hui) (hangeul 희, revised hui, McCune-Reischauer hŭi, Yale huy)

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Vietnamese

Han character

戲 (hí, hé, hi, hô)

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