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犀

犀

Translingual

Han character

犀 (radical 93 牛+8, 12 strokes, cangjie input 尸水竹手 (SEHQ) or 尸卜卜手 (SYYQ), four-corner 77251)

Derived characters

References

  • KangXi: page 701, character 14
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 20045
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1114, character 23
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1815, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+7280

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 犀

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (犀) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
摨 *rniːd
犀 *sliːl
遲 *l'il
墀 *l'il

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *sliːl) : phonetic 尾 ‎(OC *mɯlʔ) + semantic 牛 ‎(“ox”).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 犀
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 犀
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 xī
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ sej ›
Old
Chinese		 /*s.lˤəj/
English rhinoceros

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 犀
Reading # 1/1
No. 13345
Phonetic
component		 犀
Rime
group		 脂
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 西
Old
Chinese		 /*sliːl/
Notes 說文尾聲

Definitions

犀

  1. rhinoceros
  2. sharp, hard, well-tempered (as metal)

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

犀

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

Readings

Etymology

Kanji in this term
犀
さい
Jinmeiyō
on'yomi

Pronunciation

Noun

犀 ‎(hiragana さい, katakana サイ, romaji sai)

  1. rhinoceros; rhino

References

  1. ↑ 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, ISBN 978-4-14-011112-3

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

犀 (tê, tây)

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