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Translingual

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*l̥ʰaːl
*l̥ʰaːl, *l̥ʰaːls
*l'aːl
*l'aːl, *l'al
*ljalʔ
*ɦljaːl, *hljal, *hljals
*ɦljal, *laːlʔ, *lal
*laːlʔ
*hleːl
*l'eːls
*l̥ʰalʔ, *l'alʔ, *lal
*l̥ʰalʔ, *lalʔ
*l'al
*l'alʔ, *hljalʔ
*hljal, *hljals
*hljal
*hljal
*hljalʔ
*lal
*lel, *lalʔ
*lel
*lal, *lalʔ
*lal, *lalʔ
*lal, *lalʔ
*lalʔ
*lalʔ
*lalʔ
*lals, *ɦljels, *lels
*l'els

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *hljal, *hljals) : semantic  + phonetic  (OC *laːlʔ).

Han character

(radical 70 +5, 9 strokes, cangjie input 卜尸人心木 (YSOPD), four-corner 08212, composition𠂉)

  1. grant, bestow
  2. give
  3. to act
  4. A surname.

References

  • KangXi: page 482, character 1
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13629
  • Dae Jaweon: page 843, character 10
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2176, character 6
  • Unihan data for U+65BD

Chinese

Etymology 1

simp. and trad.

Pronunciation



  • Dialectal data
Variety Location
Mandarin Beijing /ʂʐ̩⁵⁵/
Harbin /ʂʐ̩⁴⁴/ 设~
/ʂʐ̩²⁴/ ~工
Tianjin /sz̩²¹/
Jinan /ʂʐ̩⁵⁵/
Qingdao /ʂʐ̩⁵⁵/
Zhengzhou /ʂʐ̩²⁴/
Xi'an /sz̩²¹/
Xining /sz̩⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /ʂʐ̩¹³/
Lanzhou /ʂʐ̩³¹/
Ürümqi /sz̩⁴⁴/
Wuhan /sz̩⁵⁵/
Chengdu /sz̩⁵⁵/
Guiyang /sz̩⁵⁵/
Kunming /ʂʐ̩⁴⁴/
Nanjing /ʂʐ̩³¹/
Hefei /ʂʐ̩²¹/
Jin Taiyuan /sz̩¹¹/
Pingyao /sz̩¹³/
Hohhot /sz̩³¹/
Wu Shanghai /sz̩⁵³/
Suzhou /sz̩ʷ⁵⁵/
Hangzhou /sz̩³³/
Wenzhou /sz̩³³/
Hui Shexian /sz̩³¹/
Tunxi /sz̩¹¹/
Xiang Changsha /ʂʐ̩³³/
Xiangtan /ʂʐ̩³³/
Gan Nanchang /sz̩⁴²/
Hakka Meixian /sz̩⁴⁴/
Taoyuan /sï²⁴/
Cantonese Guangzhou /si⁵³/
Nanning /si⁵⁵/
Hong Kong /si⁵⁵/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /si⁵⁵/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /sie⁴⁴/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /si⁵⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /si³³/
Haikou (Min Nan) /ti²³/

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial () (26) (26)
Final () (11) (11)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () III III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ɕiᴇ/ /ɕiᴇH/
Pan
Wuyun
/ɕiɛ/ /ɕiɛH/
Shao
Rongfen
/ɕjɛ/ /ɕjɛH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ɕiə̆/ /ɕiə̆H/
Li
Rong
/ɕie/ /ɕieH/
Wang
Li
/ɕǐe/ /ɕǐeH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ɕie̯/ /ɕie̯H/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
shī shì
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
shī
Middle
Chinese
‹ sye ›
Old
Chinese
/*l̥aj/
English give, bestow

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
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 14783 14789
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1 1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*hljal/ /*hljals/

Definitions

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Etymology 2

simp. and trad.

Pronunciation


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Etymology 3

simp. and trad.

Pronunciation

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Compounds

Descendants

  • (Hokkien dialect) Tagalog: See

References


Japanese

Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings


Korean

Hanja

(si, i) (hangeul , , revised si, i, McCune-Reischauer si, i, Yale si, i)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(thi, the, thè, thí, thỉ, thị, thia)

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