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Translingual

Han character

(radical 44 +6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 尸一弓心 (SMNP), four-corner 77211, composition)

References

  • KangXi: page 301, character 24
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7688
  • Dae Jaweon: page 598, character 14
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 971, character 9
  • Unihan data for U+5C4D

Chinese

trad.
simp.
alt. forms

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*l̥ʰis
*hli
*hli
*hli, *hlis
*hliʔ, *hri

Ideogrammic compound (會意) :  + .

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial () (26) (26)
Final () (15) (15)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () III III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ɕiɪ/ /ɕiɪH/
Pan
Wuyun
/ɕi/ /ɕiH/
Shao
Rongfen
/ɕjɪ/ /ɕjɪH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ɕi/ /ɕiH/
Li
Rong
/ɕi/ /ɕiH/
Wang
Li
/ɕi/ /ɕiH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ɕi/ /ɕiH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
shī shì
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
shī
Middle
Chinese
‹ syij ›
Old
Chinese
/*l̥[ə]j/
English corpse

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
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 11398 11400
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2 2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*hli/ /*hlis/

Definitions

  1. corpse; carcass   (Classifier: ; c)

Compounds

  • 五馬分屍五马分尸
  • 伍員鞭屍伍员鞭尸
  • 伏屍伏尸
  • 借屍還魂借尸还魂
  • 停屍停尸
  • 停屍間停尸间 (tíngshījiān)
  • 全屍全尸
  • 劈屍萬段劈尸万段
  • 屍山血海尸山血海
  • 屍格尸格
  • 屍橫遍野尸横遍野 (shī héng biànyě)
  • 屍櫬尸榇
  • 屍蠟尸蜡
  • 屍變尸变
  • 屍靈尸灵
  • 屍首尸首 (shīshǒu)
  • 屍骨尸骨 (shīgǔ)
  • 屍骨早寒尸骨早寒
  • 屍骨未寒尸骨未寒
  • 屍骨無存尸骨无存
  • 屍骸尸骸 (shīhái)
  • 屍體尸体 (shītǐ)
  • 戮屍戮尸
  • 拋屍露骨抛尸露骨
  • 挺屍挺尸
  • 撞屍撞尸
  • 收屍收尸
  • 暴屍於市暴尸于市 (pùshīyúshì)
  • 檢屍检尸
  • 死屍死尸 (sǐshī)
  • 殭屍僵尸 (jiāngshī)
  • 毀屍滅跡毁尸灭迹
  • 浮屍浮尸
  • 焚屍揚灰焚尸扬灰
  • 碎屍萬段碎尸万段
  • 簡屍简尸
  • 蒸骨驗屍蒸骨验尸
  • 血海屍山血海尸山
  • 行屍視肉行尸视肉
  • 裹屍裹尸 (guǒshī)
  • 裹屍馬革裹尸马革
  • 詐屍诈尸
  • 認屍认尸
  • 走肉行屍走肉行尸
  • 走骨行屍走骨行尸
  • 遊營撞屍游营撞尸
  • 陳屍陈尸
  • 鞭屍鞭尸
  • 馬革裹屍马革裹尸
  • 驗屍验尸 (yànshī)

Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Noun

(hiragana しかばね, romaji shikabane)
(alternative reading hiragana かばね, romaji kabane)

  1. corpse; dead body

Synonyms

  • See also Wikisaurus:しかばね

Korean

Hanja

(si) (hangeul , revised si, McCune-Reischauer si)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(thi, thây)

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