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視

視

See also: 视

Translingual

Han character

視 (radical 147 見+4, 11 strokes, cangjie input 戈火月山山 (IFBUU), four-corner 36210, composition ⿰礻見)

References

Chinese

trad. 視
simp. 视
alt. forms 𤋇

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 視
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Bamboo and silk script Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (示) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
示 *ɡle, *ɢljils
祁 *ɡril, *kljilʔ
狋 *ŋɡril, *ɡʷren
視 *ɡljilʔ, *ɡljils, *ɢljils
眎 *ɡljilʔ, *ɡljils, *ɢljils
沶 *li

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ɡljilʔ, *ɡljils, *ɢljils) : phonetic 示 ‎(OC *ɡle, *ɢljils) + semantic 見 ‎(“see”).

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 視
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 /sz̩⁴⁴/
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 /ʂʐ̩⁵⁵/
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) /si²⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /si³⁵/
Haikou (Min Nan) /si³⁵/
/ti³⁵/
/ti⁵⁵/ 俗
Rime
Character 視 視
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 常 (25) 常 (25)
Final (韻) 脂 (15) 脂 (15)
Tone (調) Rising (X) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division (等) III III
Fanqie 承矢切 常利切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /d͡ʑiɪX/ /d͡ʑiɪH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /d͡ʑiX/ /d͡ʑiH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /d͡ʑjɪX/ /d͡ʑjɪH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /d͡ʑiX/ /d͡ʑiH/
Li
Rong		 /ʑiX/ /ʑiH/
Wang
Li		 /ʑiX/ /ʑiH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ʑiX/ /ʑiH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 shì shì
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 視 視
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 shì shì
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ dzyijX › ‹ dzyijH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*ɡijʔ/ /*ɡijʔ-s/
English look, see look, see

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 視 視 視
Reading # 1/3 2/3 3/3
No. 11602 11604 11608
Phonetic
component		 示 示 示
Rime
group		 脂 脂 脂
Rime
subdivision		 1 1 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 視 嗜 示
Old
Chinese		 /*ɡljilʔ/ /*ɡljils/ /*ɢljils/
Notes 同眎依餘校王韻又神至反加

Definitions

視

  1. to see; to look; to view
  2. to inspect; to examine
  3. to regard; to consider
  4. to visit
  5. view; sight

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

視

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. to see; to look; to watch; to view; to observe
  2. to look over; to look on; to assess; to examine; to judge
  3. to look after; to keep an eye on; to take care of
  4. to view (e.g. flowers, movie)
  5. (usu. after the -te form of a verb) to try

Readings

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

視 • ‎(si) (hangeul 시)

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Vietnamese

Han character

視 (thị)

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Compounds

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