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Definition 2025

笥

笥

Translingual

Han character

笥 (radical 118 竹+5, 11 strokes, cangjie input 竹尸一口 (HSMR), four-corner 8862₇, composition ⿱⺮司)

References

KangXi: page 880, character 17

Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 25934

Dae Jaweon: page 1308, character 12

Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 2959, character 6

Unihan data for U+7B25

Chinese

simp. and trad.		笥

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (司) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
司	*slɯ
伺	slɯ, slɯs
覗	slɯ, slɯs
笥	slɯ, slɯs
詞	*ljɯ
祠	*ljɯ
柌	*ljɯ
嗣	*ljɯs
孠	*ljɯs
飼	*ljɯs
呞	*hljɯ

Pronunciation

Mandarin

(Pinyin): sì (si⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄙˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): zi⁶

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
  - Pinyin: sì
  - Zhuyin: ㄙˋ
  - Wade-Giles: szu⁴
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: syh
  - IPA ^(key): /sz̩⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: zi⁶
  - Yale: jih
  - Cantonese Pinyin: dzi⁶
  - IPA ^(key): /t͡siː²²/

Middle Chinese: /sɨ^H/▼

Rime
Character	笥
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	心 (16)
Final (韻)	之 (19)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	相吏切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/sɨ^H/
Pan Wuyun	/sɨ^H/
Shao Rongfen	/sie^H/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/sɨ^H/
Li Rong	/siə^H/
Wang Li	/sĭə^H/
Bernard Karlgren	/si^H/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	sì

Old Chinese▼
(Zhengzhang): /*slɯ/, /*slɯs/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	笥	笥
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	11954	11956
Phonetic component	司	司
Rime group	之	之
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	思	笥
Old Chinese	/*slɯ/	/*slɯs/

Definitions

笥

hamper, wicker basket

Japanese

Kanji

笥

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

On: し (shi), す (su)

Kun: はこ (hako)

Korean

Hanja

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

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