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誰

誰

See also: 谁

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

誰 (radical 149 言+8, 15 strokes, cangjie input 卜口人土 (YROG), four-corner 00614, composition ⿰言隹)

References

  • KangXi: page 1165, character 11
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 35686
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1630, character 27
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3987, character 10
  • Unihan data for U+8AB0

Chinese

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (隹) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
蜼 *lus, *rulʔ, *luls
堆 *tuːl
嵟 *tuːl
碓 *tuːls
推 *tʰuːl, *tʰjul
蓷 *tʰuːl, *tʰjul
陮 *duːlʔ
魋 *duːl
嶊 *stuːlʔ
崔 *zluːl, *sʰluːl
猚 *ŋreːl, *rulʔ
椎 *dul
顀 *dul
隹 *tjul
錐 *tjul
萑 *kljul
騅 *tjul
鵻 *sɢʷinʔ, *tjul
誰 *djul
脽 *djul

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *djul) : semantic 言 ‎(“speak”) + phonetic 隹 ‎(OC *tjul) – to ask “who?”.

Etymology 1

trad. 誰
simp. 谁

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 誰
Mandarin Beijing /ʂei³⁵/
/ʂuei³⁵/
Harbin /ʂei²⁴/
/ʂuei²⁴/
Tianjin /sei⁴⁵/
/suei⁴⁵/
Jinan /ʂuei⁴²/
/ʂei⁴²/
Qingdao /ʂe⁴²/
Zhengzhou /ʂuei⁴²/
/ʂei⁴²/
Xi'an /sei²⁴/
Xining /fɨ²⁴/
Yinchuan /ʂuei⁵³/
Lanzhou /fei⁵³/
Ürümqi /sei⁵¹/
Wuhan /suei²¹³/
Chengdu /suei³¹/
Guiyang /suei²¹/
Kunming /suei³¹/
Nanjing /ʂuəi²⁴/
Hefei /ʂue⁵⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /sei¹¹/
/suei¹¹/
Pingyao /suei¹³/
Hohhot /suei³¹/
Wu Shanghai /zø²³/
Suzhou /ze̞¹³/
Hangzhou /d͡zz̩ʷei²¹³/
Wenzhou /zz̩³¹/
Hui Shexian /ɕye⁴⁴/
Tunxi
Xiang Changsha /ɕyei¹³/
Xiangtan /ɕyəi¹²/
Gan Nanchang
Hakka Meixian /sui¹¹/
Taoyuan
Cantonese Guangzhou /søy²¹/
Nanning /sui²¹/
Hong Kong /søy²¹/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /sui³⁵/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /suoi⁵³/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /sy³³/
Shantou (Min Nan) /sui⁵⁵/
Haikou (Min Nan) /ʔdiaŋ³³/ 訓讀
Rime
Character 誰
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 常 (25)
Final (韻) 脂 (16)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) III
Fanqie 視隹切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /d͡ʑiuɪ/
Pan
Wuyun		 /d͡ʑʷi/
Shao
Rongfen		 /d͡ʑjuɪ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /d͡ʑwi/
Li
Rong		 /ʑui/
Wang
Li		 /ʑwi/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ʑwi/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 chuí
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 誰
Reading # 1/1
No. 17725
Phonetic
component		 隹
Rime
group		 微
Rime
subdivision		 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 誰
Old
Chinese		 /*djul/

Definitions

誰

  1. who; whom
  2. someone; anyone
  3. anyone; whoever
  4. A surname​.

Etymology 2

trad. 誰
simp. 谁
alt. forms 倽

From elision of 啥人 (siáⁿ-lâng).

Pronunciation

Definitions

誰

  1. (Min Nan) who; whom

Etymology 3

trad. 誰
simp. 谁

From elision of 底人 (tī-lâng).

Pronunciation

Definitions

誰

  1. (Kinmen, Magong and Teochew Min Nan) who; whom

Etymology 4

trad. 誰
simp. 谁

From shortening of 是誰／是谁 (chī-chūi), from 是誰／是谁 (sī-sûi).

Pronunciation

Definitions

誰

  1. (Xiamen and Quanzhou Min Nan) who; whom

Etymology 5

trad. 誰
simp. 谁
alt. forms 孰 (chiâ)
咜 (chôa)

From shortening of 是誰／是谁 (chī-choa̍h), from 是誰啊／是谁啊 (sī-sûi--ah).

Pronunciation

Definitions

誰

  1. (Zhangzhou and Taichung Min Nan) who; whom

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 誰 (“who; whom”)
Variety Location Words
Classical Chinese 誰、誰人、何人
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 誰
Mandarin Beijing 誰
Taiwan 誰
Jinan 誰
Xi'an 誰
Wuhan 哪個、啥個
Chengdu 哪個、啥子人
Yangzhou 哪一個、哪個
Hefei 哪個、哈個
Cantonese Guangzhou 邊個、乜誰
Hong Kong 邊個、乜誰
Taishan 誰、阿誰
Yangjiang 乜誰
Gan Nanchang 哪個
Hakka Meixian 麼人
Miaoli (N. Sixian) 麼人、麼儕
Liudui (S. Sixian) 麼人、麼儕
Hsinchu (Hailu) 麼人、麼儕
Dongshi (Dabu) 麼人、麼儕
Zhuolan (Raoping) 麼人、麼儕
Yunlin (Zhao'an) 麼儕
Jin Taiyuan 誰、誰們
Min Bei Jian'ou 孰人
Min Dong Fuzhou 底人
Min Nan Quanzhou 誰、是誰、啥人
Xiamen 誰、是誰、啥人、啥物人、什物人、底人
Zhangzhou 誰、是誰、啥人
Taipei 啥物人
Kaohsiung 啥物人
Tainan 啥物人
Taichung 誰、啥人
Yilan 啥人、誰
Lukang 啥物人、誰
Sanxia 啥人
Kinmen 誰
Magong 誰
Hsinchu 誰、啥物人
Malaysia 誰誰、誰誰人、是誰
Chaozhou 底人、誰
Wu Shanghai 啥人
Suzhou 啥人
Wenzhou 何人、何呢人
Xiang Changsha 哪個
Shuangfeng 哪個

See also

Question words

Japanese

Pronoun

誰 ‎(hiragana た, romaji ta)

  1. interrogative personal pronoun; who

Pronoun

誰 ‎(hiragana たれ, romaji tare)

  1. interrogative personal pronoun; who
    • 1603–1604, Nippo Jisho (page 614)
      Tare. タレ (誰) 誰. 例, Tarega maittaca. l, tareca maitta. (誰が参つたか. まはは, 誰か参つた) 誰が来たか. Tare naritomo. (誰なりとも) 誰であろうとも.

Etymology

From earlier /tare/. The voicing of the initial /t-/ to /d-/ is likely due to analogy to the interrogative demonstrative 何処 ‎(doko).

Pronoun

誰 ‎(hiragana だれ, romaji dare)

  1. interrogative personal pronoun; who

Synonyms

Kanji

誰

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. interrogative personal pronoun; who

Readings

References

Korean

Hanja

誰 • ‎(su) (hangeul 수, McCune-Reischauer su, Yale swu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

誰 (thùy, thuỳ)

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