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Definition 2024

駟

駟

See also: 驷

Translingual

Han character

駟 (radical 187 馬+5, 15 strokes, cangjie input 尸火田金 (SFWC), four-corner 7630₀, composition ⿰馬四)

team of four horses

References

KangXi: page 1437, character 6

Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 44683

Dae Jaweon: page 1961, character 16

Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4547, character 11

Unihan data for U+99DF

Chinese

trad.		駟
simp.		驷

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 駟
Bronze inscriptions	Bamboo and silk script	Large seal script	Small seal script

Characters in the same phonetic series (四) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
訵	*l̥ʰids
四	*hljids
泗	*hljids
駟	*hljids
柶	*hljids
牭	*hljids
呬	*hrids

Pronunciation

Mandarin

(Pinyin): sì (si⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄙˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): si³

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
  - Pinyin: sì
  - Zhuyin: ㄙˋ
  - Wade-Giles: szu⁴
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: syh
  - IPA ^(key): /sz̩⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: si³
  - Yale: si
  - Cantonese Pinyin: si³
  - IPA ^(key): /siː³³/

Middle Chinese: /siɪ^H/▼

Rime
Character	駟
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	心 (16)
Final (韻)	脂 (15)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	息利切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/siɪ^H/
Pan Wuyun	/si^H/
Shao Rongfen	/sjɪ^H/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/si^H/
Li Rong	/si^H/
Wang Li	/si^H/
Bernard Karlgren	/si^H/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	sì

Old Chinese▼

(Baxter-Sagart): /*s.li[j]-s/

(Zhengzhang): /*hljids/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	駟
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	sì
Middle Chinese	‹ sij^H ›
Old Chinese	/*s.li[j]-s/
English	team of four horses
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	駟
Reading #	1/1
No.	12024
Phonetic component	四
Rime group	至
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	四
Old Chinese	/*hljids/

Definitions

駟

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Japanese

Kanji

駟

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

On: し (shi)

Korean

Hanja

駟 • ‎(sa) (hangeul 사, revised sa, McCune-Reischauer sa, Yale sa)

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