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寺
寺
Translingual
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Han character
寺 (radical 41 寸+3, 6 strokes, cangjie input 土木戈 (GDI), four-corner 40341, composition ⿱土寸)
Derived terms
References
- KangXi: page 293, character 33
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7414
- Dae Jaweon: page 581, character 8
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 503, character 11
- Unihan data for U+5BFA
Chinese
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simp. and trad. |
寺 | |
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Glyph origin
| Historical forms of the character 寺
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| Bronze inscriptions | Large seal script | Small seal script |
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| Characters in the same phonetic series (寺) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
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| Old Chinese | |
| 等 | *tɯːʔ, *tɯːŋʔ |
| 待 | *dɯːʔ |
| 寺 | *ljɯs |
| 持 | *l'ɯ |
| 峙 | *dɯʔ |
| 痔 | *dɯʔ |
| 跱 | *dɯʔ |
| 歭 | *dɯʔ |
| 洔 | *dɯʔ, *tjɯʔ |
| 畤 | *dɯʔ, *tjɯʔ, *djɯʔ |
| 秲 | *dɯʔ, *djɯs |
| 庤 | *dɯʔ |
| 時 | *djɯ |
| 鰣 | *djɯ |
| 塒 | *djɯ |
| 蒔 | *djɯ, *djɯs |
| 榯 | *djɯ |
| 恃 | *djɯʔ |
| 侍 | *djɯs |
| 詩 | *hljɯ |
| 邿 | *hljɯ |
| 特 | *dɯːɡ |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ljɯs) : phonetic 止 (OC *kjɯʔ) + semantic 又 (“hand”) – to grasp, to hold. Phonetic 止 (之) became 土 in Clerical Script and semantic 又 become 寸 in Small Seal Script.
The derivative 持 refers to the original word.
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄙˋ
- Wade-Giles: szu4
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: syh
- IPA (key): /sz̩⁵¹/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: zi6
- Yale: jih
- Cantonese Pinyin: dzi6
- IPA (key): /t͡siː²²/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sī
- Tâi-lô: sī
- Phofsit Daibuun: si
- IPA (Xiamen): /ɕi²²/
- IPA (Quanzhou): /ɕi⁴¹/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /ɕi²²/
- IPA (Taipei): /ɕi³³/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /ɕi³³/
- (Hokkien)
| Rime | |
|---|---|
| Character | 寺 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 邪 (17) |
| Final (韻) | 之 (19) |
| Tone (調) | Departing (H) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 祥吏切 |
| Reconstructions | |
| Zhengzhang Shangfang |
/zɨH/ |
| Pan Wuyun |
/zɨH/ |
| Shao Rongfen |
/zieH/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank |
/zɨH/ |
| Li Rong |
/ziəH/ |
| Wang Li |
/zĭəH/ |
| Bernard Karlgren |
/ziH/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex |
sì |
| Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014) | |
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| Character | 寺 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) |
sì |
| Middle Chinese |
‹ ziH › |
| Old Chinese |
/*s-[d]əʔ-s/ |
| English | hall |
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; | |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 寺 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 12030 |
| Phonetic component |
寺 |
| Rime group |
之 |
| Rime subdivision |
0 |
| Corresponding MC rime |
寺 |
| Old Chinese |
/*ljɯs/ |
| Notes | 說文之聲，文源雲象手持 |
Definitions
寺
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Compounds
References
- (Min Nan) “Entry #2292”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (in Chinese and Min Nan), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2011.
Japanese
Kanji
寺