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棲

棲

See also: 栖

Translingual

Han character

棲 (radical 75 木+8, 12 strokes, cangjie input 木十中女 (DJLV), four-corner 45944, composition ⿰木妻)

References

  • KangXi: page 534, character 17
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14980
  • Dae Jaweon: page 922, character 13
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1229, character 6
  • Unihan data for U+68F2

Chinese

trad. 棲
simp. 栖

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (妻) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
妻 *sʰiːl, *sʰiːls
萋 *sʰiːl
淒 *sʰiːl
凄 *sʰiːl
悽 *sʰiːl
鶈 *sʰiːl
郪 *sʰiːl, *sʰil
緀 *sʰiːl, *sʰiːlʔ
霋 *sʰiːl
棲 *siːl

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 棲
Mandarin Beijing /t͡ɕʰi⁵⁵/
Harbin /t͡ɕʰi⁴⁴/
Tianjin /t͡ɕʰi²¹/
Jinan /t͡ɕʰi²¹³/
Qingdao /t͡sʰi²¹³/
Zhengzhou /t͡sʰi²⁴/
Xi'an /t͡ɕʰi²¹/
Xining /ɕji⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /t͡ɕʰi⁴⁴/
Lanzhou /ɕi³¹/
/t͡ɕʰi³¹/
Ürümqi /t͡ɕʰi⁴⁴/
Wuhan /t͡ɕʰi⁵⁵/
Chengdu /t͡ɕʰi⁵⁵/
Guiyang /ɕi⁵⁵/
Kunming /t͡ɕi⁴⁴/
Nanjing /t͡sʰi³¹/
Hefei /t͡sʰz̩²¹/
Jin Taiyuan /t͡ɕʰi¹¹/
Pingyao
Hohhot /t͡ɕʰi³¹/
Wu Shanghai /t͡ɕʰi⁵³/
Suzhou /t͡sʰi⁵⁵/
Hangzhou /t͡ɕʰi³³/
Wenzhou /t͡sʰei³³/
Hui Shexian /t͡sʰi³¹/
Tunxi
Xiang Changsha /t͡sʰi³³/
Xiangtan /si³³/
Gan Nanchang
Hakka Meixian /t͡si⁴⁴/
Taoyuan /t͡sʰi²⁴/
Cantonese Guangzhou /t͡sʰɐi⁵³/
Nanning /t͡sʰɐi⁵⁵/
Hong Kong /t͡sʰɐi⁵³/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /se⁵⁵/
/t͡sʰe⁵⁵/ ～身
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /t͡sʰɛ⁴⁴/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /t͡sʰi⁵⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /t͡sʰi³³/
Haikou (Min Nan) /si²³/
Rime
Character 棲
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 心 (16)
Final (韻) 齊 (39)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) IV
Fanqie 先稽切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /sei/
Pan
Wuyun		 /sei/
Shao
Rongfen		 /sɛi/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /sɛj/
Li
Rong		 /sei/
Wang
Li		 /siei/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /siei/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 xī
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 棲
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 qī
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ sej ›
Old
Chinese		 /*s-nˤər/
English bird"s nest

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 棲
Reading # 1/1
No. 9924
Phonetic
component		 妻
Rime
group		 脂
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 西
Old
Chinese		 /*siːl/

Definitions

棲

  1. to perch
  2. to roost
  3. to stay

Japanese

Kanji

棲

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

棲 • ‎(seo) (hangeul 서, revised seo, McCune-Reischauer sŏ, Yale se)

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Vietnamese

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