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Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

(radical 50 +2, 5 strokes, cangjie input 卜中月 (YLB), four-corner 00227, composition)

Derived characters

References

  • KangXi: page 328, character 3
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 8775
  • Dae Jaweon: page 632, character 13
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 729, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+5E02

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script

Oracle bone script and bronze inscriptions: Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *djɯʔ) : semantic  (bustling) + phonetic  (OC *tjɯ).

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (25)
Final () (19)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/d͡ʑɨX/
Pan
Wuyun
/d͡ʑɨX/
Shao
Rongfen
/d͡ʑieX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/d͡ʑɨX/
Li
Rong
/ʑiəX/
Wang
Li
/ʑĭəX/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ʑiX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
shì
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
shì
Middle
Chinese
‹ dzyiX ›
Old
Chinese
/*C.[d]əʔ/
English market (n.)

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 # 1/1
No. 11611
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*djɯʔ/

Definitions

  1. city; town
  2. market; fair
  3. trade

Compounds


Japanese

Kanji

(grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

Noun

Kanji in this term
いち
Grade: 2
kun'yomi

(hiragana いち, romaji ichi)

  1. market

Suffix

(hiragana , romaji -shi)

  1. city

Compounds


Korean

Hanja

(si)
Eumhun:

  • Sound (hangeul):  (McCune-Reischauer: si)
  1. market, city, town

Compounds


Vietnamese

Han character

(thị)

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Compounds