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祀

祀

Translingual

Han character

祀 (radical 113 示+3, 8 strokes, cangjie input 戈火口山 (IFRU), four-corner 37217)

  1. to sacrifice, worship

References

  • KangXi: page 840, character 1
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 24633
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1258, character 3
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2387, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+7940

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 祀

Glyph origin

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 祀
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 邪 (17)
Final (韻) 之 (19)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 詳里切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /zɨX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /zɨX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /zieX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /zɨX/
Li
Rong		 /ziəX/
Wang
Li		 /zĭəX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ziX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 sì
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 祀
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 sì
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ ziX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*s-[ɢ]əʔ/
English sacrifice; year

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 祀
Reading # 1/1
No. 12008
Phonetic
component		 巳
Rime
group		 之
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 似
Old
Chinese		 /*ljɯʔ/

Definitions

祀

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Japanese

Kanji

祀

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

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

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