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徙
徙
Translingual
Alternative forms
- 𨑭
 
Han character
徙 (radical 60 彳+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 竹人卜中人 (HOYLO), four-corner 21281, composition ⿰彳⿱止龰)
References
- KangXi: page 368, character 5
 - Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 10142
 - Dae Jaweon: page 692, character 4
 - Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 827, character 12
 - Unihan data for U+5F99
 
Chinese
| 
simp. and trad. | 
徙 | |
|---|---|---|
Glyph origin
| Characters in the same phonetic series (徙) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
|---|---|
| Old Chinese | |
| 簁 | *sreːl, *srel, *srelʔ | 
| 徙 | *selʔ | 
| 褷 | *srel | 
| 屣 | *srelʔ, *srels | 
| 縰 | *srelʔ | 
| 蓰 | *srelʔ | 
Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *selʔ) : semantic 辵 (“walk”) + phonetic 止 (OC *kjɯʔ).
Pronunciation
-  Mandarin
-  (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
 - Zhuyin: ㄒㄧˇ
 - Wade-Giles: hsih3
 - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shii
 - IPA (key): /ɕi²¹⁴/
 
 
 -  (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
 -  Cantonese
-  (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: saai2
 - Yale: sáai
 - Cantonese Pinyin: saai2
 - IPA (key): /sɑːi̯³⁵/
 
 
 -  (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
 -  Hakka
-  (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: sái
 - Hakka Romanization System: sai`
 - Hagfa Pinyim: sai3
 - IPA: /sa̯i³¹/
 
 
 -  (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
 -  Min Nan
-  (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Xiamen)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sú
 - Tâi-lô: sú
 - Phofsit Daibuun: suo
 - IPA (Quanzhou): /su⁵⁵⁴/
 - IPA (Xiamen): /su⁵³/
 
 -  (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sí
 - Tâi-lô: sí
 - Phofsit Daibuun: sie
 - IPA (Zhangzhou): /ɕi⁵³/
 
 -  (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, mainstream Taiwanese)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sóa
 - Tâi-lô: suá
 - Phofsit Daibuun: soar
 - IPA (Xiamen): /sua⁵³/
 - IPA (Quanzhou): /sua⁵⁵⁴/
 - IPA (Zhangzhou): /sua⁵³/
 - IPA (Taipei): /sua⁵³/
 - IPA (Kaohsiung): /sua⁴¹/
 - Note: sú/sí - literary; sóa - vernacular.
 
 
 -  (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Xiamen)
 
-  Dialectal data▼
 
| Variety | Location | 徙 | 
|---|---|---|
| Mandarin | Beijing | /ɕi²¹⁴/ | 
| Harbin | /ɕi⁴⁴/ | |
| Tianjin | /ɕi¹³/ | |
| Jinan | /ɕi²¹³/ | |
| Qingdao | /si⁵⁵/ | |
| Zhengzhou | /si⁵³/ | |
| Xi'an | /ɕi²¹/ | |
| Xining | /ɕji⁵³/ | |
| Yinchuan | /ɕi¹³/ | |
| Lanzhou | /ɕi⁴⁴²/ | |
| Ürümqi | /ɕi⁵¹/ | |
| Wuhan | /ɕi⁴²/ | |
| Chengdu | /ɕi⁵³/ | |
| Guiyang | /ɕi⁴²/ | |
| Kunming | /ɕi⁵³/ | |
| Nanjing | /si²¹²/ | |
| Hefei | /sz̩²⁴/ | |
| Jin | Taiyuan | /ɕi⁵³/ | 
| Pingyao | ||
| Hohhot | /ɕi⁵³/ | |
| Wu | Shanghai | /ɕi³⁵/ | 
| Suzhou | /si⁵⁵/ | |
| Hangzhou | /ɕi⁵³/ | |
| Wenzhou | /sz̩³⁵/ | |
| Hui | Shexian | /si³⁵/ | 
| Tunxi | ||
| Xiang | Changsha | /si⁴¹/ | 
| Xiangtan | /si⁴²/ | |
| Gan | Nanchang | |
| Hakka | Meixian | /sai³¹/ | 
| Taoyuan | /sɑi³¹/ | |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou | /sɐi³⁵/ | 
| Nanning | /ɬɐi³⁵/ | |
| Hong Kong | /sɐi³⁵/ | |
| Min | Xiamen (Min Nan) | 
/su⁵³/  /sua⁵³/ ~動  | 
| Fuzhou (Min Dong) | /sɛ³²/ | |
| Jian'ou (Min Bei) | /si²¹/ | |
| Shantou (Min Nan) | /sua⁵³/ | |
| Haikou (Min Nan) | /tua²¹³/ | 
| Rime | |
|---|---|
| Character | 徙 | 
| Reading # | 1/1 | 
| Initial (聲) | 心 (16) | 
| Final (韻) | 支 (11) | 
| Tone (調) | Rising (X) | 
| Openness (開合) | Open | 
| Division (等) | III | 
| Fanqie | 斯氏切 | 
| Reconstructions | |
| Zhengzhang Shangfang  | 
/siᴇX/ | 
| Pan Wuyun  | 
/siɛX/ | 
| Shao Rongfen  | 
/sjɛX/ | 
| Edwin Pulleyblank  | 
/siə̆X/ | 
| Li Rong  | 
/sieX/ | 
| Wang Li  | 
/sǐeX/ | 
| Bernard Karlgren  | 
/sie̯X/ | 
| Expected Mandarin Reflex  | 
sǐ | 
| Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 徙 | 
| Reading # | 1/1 | 
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin)  | 
xǐ | 
| Middle Chinese  | 
‹ sjeX › | 
| Old Chinese  | 
/*[s]ajʔ/ | 
| English | move (to) | 
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: 					* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;  | |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 徙 | 
| Reading # | 1/1 | 
| No. | 13400 | 
| Phonetic component  | 
徙 | 
| Rime group  | 
歌 | 
| Rime subdivision  | 
2 | 
| Corresponding MC rime  | 
徙 | 
| Old Chinese  | 
/*selʔ/ | 
Definitions
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Kanji
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Readings
Korean
Hanja
徙 • (sa) (hangeul 사, revised sa, McCune-Reischauer sa, Yale sa)
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