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泗
泗
Translingual
Han character
泗 (radical 85 水+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 水田金 (EWC), four-corner 36100, composition ⿰氵四)
References
- KangXi: page 616, character 17
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17294
- Dae Jaweon: page 1011, character 1
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1587, character 3
- Unihan data for U+6CD7
Chinese
|
simp. and trad. |
泗 | |
|---|---|---|
Glyph origin
| Historical forms of the character 泗
| |
|---|---|
| Large seal script | Small seal script |
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| Characters in the same phonetic series (四) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
|---|---|
| Old Chinese | |
| 訵 | *l̥ʰids |
| 四 | *hljids |
| 泗 | *hljids |
| 駟 | *hljids |
| 柶 | *hljids |
| 牭 | *hljids |
| 呬 | *hrids |
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄙˋ
- Wade-Giles: szu4
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: syh
- IPA (key): /sz̩⁵¹/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: si3, sei3
- Yale: si, sei
- Cantonese Pinyin: si3, sei3
- IPA (key): /siː³³/, /sei̯³³/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
| Rime | |
|---|---|
| Character | 泗 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 心 (16) |
| Final (韻) | 脂 (15) |
| Tone (調) | Departing (H) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 息利切 |
| Reconstructions | |
| Zhengzhang Shangfang |
/siɪH/ |
| Pan Wuyun |
/siH/ |
| Shao Rongfen |
/sjɪH/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank |
/siH/ |
| Li Rong |
/siH/ |
| Wang Li |
/siH/ |
| Bernard Karlgren |
/siH/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex |
sì |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 泗 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 12023 |
| Phonetic component |
四 |
| Rime group |
至 |
| Rime subdivision |
1 |
| Corresponding MC rime |
四 |
| Old Chinese |
/*hljids/ |
Definitions
泗
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Japanese
Kanji
泗
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Readings
Korean
Hanja
泗 • (sa) (hangeul 사, revised sa, McCune-Reischauer sa, Yale sa)
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