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厶
厶
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Translingual
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Han character
厶 (radical 28 厶+0, 2 strokes, cangjie input 女戈 (VI) or X女戈 (XVI), four-corner 20730)
- private, secret
- Kangxi radical #28, ⼛ (“private”).
Descendants
Derived characters
Usage notes
Similar strokes occur in various Chinese characters, where they often represent a stylized tail, as in 离 (“beast”) and 鬼 (“demon”).
References
- KangXi: page 163, character 20
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3057
- Dae Jaweon: page 371, character 25
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 383, character 9
- Unihan data for U+53B6
Chinese
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simp. and trad. |
厶 | |
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Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄙ
- Wade-Giles: szu1
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: sy
- IPA (key): /sz̩⁵⁵/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄇㄡˇ
- Wade-Giles: mou3
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: moou
- IPA (key): /moʊ̯²¹⁴/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: si1, mau5
- Yale: sī, máuh
- Cantonese Pinyin: si1, mau5
- IPA (key): /siː⁵⁵/, /mɐu̯¹³/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: sṳ
- Hakka Romanization System: sii
- Hagfa Pinyim: si4
- IPA: /sɨ⁵⁵/
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Min Nan
| Rime | |
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| Character | 厶 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 心 (16) |
| Final (韻) | 脂 (15) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 息夷切 |
| Reconstructions | |
| Zhengzhang Shangfang |
/siɪ/ |
| Pan Wuyun |
/si/ |
| Shao Rongfen |
/sjɪ/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank |
/si/ |
| Li Rong |
/si/ |
| Wang Li |
/si/ |
| Bernard Karlgren |
/si/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex |
sī |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
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| Character | 厶 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 11950 |
| Phonetic component |
厶 |
| Rime group |
脂 |
| Rime subdivision |
1 |
| Corresponding MC rime |
私 |
| Old Chinese |
/*sil/ |
Definitions
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Japanese
Kanji
厶
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Readings
Korean
Hanja
厶 • (sa) (hangeul 사, revised sa, McCune-Reischauer sa)
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Vietnamese
Han character
厶 (khư)
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References
Etymology
| Historical forms of the character 厶
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| Bronze inscriptions | Bamboo and silk script | Large seal script | Small seal script |
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| Characters in the same phonetic series (厶) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
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| Old Chinese | |
| 私 | *sil |
| 厶 | *sil |
Multiple origins. One form is a descendant of 已; another is a pictograph of a bent arm, which later evolved into 厷; another is a pictograph of a cocoon, which eventually became 私. Also occurs as a corruption of 口, as in 勾, from 句