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Translingual

Stroke order

Alternative forms

  • (when used as a left Chinese radical)
  • 𡭕
  • 𥘅

Han character

(radical 113 示+0, 5 strokes, cangjie input 一一火 (MMF), four-corner 10901, composition)

  1. show, manifest
  2. demonstrate
  3. Kangxi radical #113, (spirit).

Derived characters

  • Index:Chinese radical/示

References

  • KangXi: page 839, character 20
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 24623
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1256, character 25
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2385, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+793A

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Oracle bone script Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*ɡle, *ɢljils
*ɡril, *kljilʔ
*ŋɡril, *ɡʷren
*ɡljilʔ, *ɡljils, *ɢljils
*ɡljilʔ, *ɡljils, *ɢljils
*li

Pictogram (象形) – an altar.

Pronunciation



  • Dialectal data
Variety Location
Mandarin Beijing /ʂʐ̩⁵¹/
Harbin /ʂʐ̩⁵³/
Tianjin /sz̩⁵³/
Jinan /ʂʐ̩²¹/
Qingdao /ʂʐ̩⁴²/
Zhengzhou /ʂʐ̩³¹²/
Xi'an /sz̩⁴⁴/
Xining /sz̩²¹³/
Yinchuan /ʂʐ̩¹³/
Lanzhou /ʂʐ̩¹³/
Ürümqi /sz̩²¹³/
Wuhan /sz̩³⁵/
Chengdu /sz̩¹³/
Guiyang /sz̩²¹³/
Kunming /ʂʐ̩²¹²/
Nanjing /ʂʐ̩⁴⁴/
Hefei /ʂʐ̩⁵³/
Jin Taiyuan /sz̩⁴⁵/
Pingyao /sz̩³⁵/
Hohhot /sz̩⁵⁵/
Wu Shanghai /zz̩²³/
Suzhou /zz̩ʷ³¹/
Hangzhou /zz̩¹³/
Wenzhou /zz̩²²/
Hui Shexian /sz̩²²/
Tunxi /ɕi²⁴/
Xiang Changsha /ʂʐ̩⁵⁵/
Xiangtan /ʈ͡ʂʐ̩⁵⁵/
Gan Nanchang /sz̩²¹/
Hakka Meixian /sz̩⁵³/
Taoyuan /ʃï⁵⁵/
Cantonese Guangzhou /si²²/
Nanning /si²²/
Hong Kong /si²²/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /si²²/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /sɛi²⁴²/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /si⁴⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /si³¹/
Haikou (Min Nan) /si³⁵/
/mai³⁵/ 訓讀

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial () (30) (27)
Final () (11) (15)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () III III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ɡiᴇ/ /ʑiɪH/
Pan
Wuyun
/ɡiɛ/ /ʑiH/
Shao
Rongfen
/ɡjɛ/ /ʑjɪH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/giə̆/ /ʑiH/
Li
Rong
/ɡie/ /d͡ʑiH/
Wang
Li
/ɡǐe/ /d͡ʑiH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/gie̯/ /d͡ʑʰiH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
shì
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
shì zhì
Middle
Chinese
‹ zyijH › ‹ tsyeH ›
Old
Chinese
/*s-ɡijʔ-s/ /*ke-s/
English show (v.) put (= 寘)

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. 11598 11606
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0 1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ɡle/ /*ɢljils/
Notes

Definitions

  1. to show

Compounds

  • 不甘示弱
  • 傳示传示
  • 公示
  • 公示催告
  • 公示行為公示行为
  • 公示送達公示送达
  • 出示 (chūshì)
  • 告示 (gàoshì)
  • 啟示启示 (qǐshì)
  • 啟示錄启示录
  • 回示
  • 圖示图示 (túshì)
  • 安民告示
  • 宣示
  • 展示 (zhǎnshì)
  • 意思表示 (yìsi biǎoshì)
  • 批示 (pīshì)
  • 指示 (zhǐshì)
  • 提示 (tíshì)
  • 提示人
  • 揭示 (jiēshì)
  • 斬首示眾斩首示众
  • 明示 (míngshì)
  • 昭示 (zhāoshì)
  • 暗示 (ànshì)
  • 曉示晓示
  • 核示
  • 榜示
  • 標示标示 (biāoshì)
  • 沒頭告示没头告示
  • 演示 (yǎnshì)
  • 炫示
  • 無頭告示无头告示
  • 牌示
  • 牓示
  • 發蹤指示发踪指示
  • 示例 (shìlì)
  • 示好 (shìhǎo)
  • 示威 (shìwēi)
  • 示威遊行示威游行
  • 示寂
  • 示弱
  • 示意 (shìyì)
  • 示意圖示意图 (shìyìtú)
  • 示愛示爱
  • 示波器

Japanese

Kanji

(grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. causing attention, showing, important

Readings

Compounds


Korean

Hanja

(si, gi) (hangeul , , revised si, gi, McCune-Reischauer si, ki, Yale si, ki)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(thị, )

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