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Translingual

Han character

(radical 149 +6, 13 strokes, cangjie input 卜口土木戈 (YRGDI), four-corner 04641, composition)

References

  • KangXi: page 1157, character 15
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 35427
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1622, character 16
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3961, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+8A69

Chinese

trad.
simp.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Large seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*tɯːʔ, *tɯːŋʔ
*dɯːʔ
*ljɯs
*l'ɯ
*dɯʔ
*dɯʔ
*dɯʔ
*dɯʔ
*dɯʔ, *tjɯʔ
*dɯʔ, *tjɯʔ, *djɯʔ
*dɯʔ, *djɯs
*dɯʔ
*djɯ
*djɯ
*djɯ
*djɯ, *djɯs
*djɯ
*djɯʔ
*djɯs
*hljɯ
*hljɯ
*dɯːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *hljɯ) : semantic  (speech) + phonetic  (OC *ljɯs) – poetry is a form of language, speech.

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (26)
Final () (19)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ɕɨ/
Pan
Wuyun
/ɕɨ/
Shao
Rongfen
/ɕie/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ɕɨ/
Li
Rong
/ɕiə/
Wang
Li
/ɕĭə/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ɕi/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
shī
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 12052
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*hljɯ/

Definitions

  1. poem; verse; ode; poetry   (Classifier: m)
  2. Short for 詩經诗经 (Shījīng, “Classic of Poetry”).

Compounds


Japanese

Kanji

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. poetry, poem
  2. (archaic) Chinese-style poetry
  3. modern Japanese poetry

Readings

Noun

(hiragana , romaji shi)

  1. poem

Derived terms


Korean

Hanja

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

Noun

(si) (hangeul )

  1. Hanja form? of , “poem, poetry”.

Vietnamese

Han character

Noun

  1. Hán tự form of thi, thơ, “poetry, poem