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斯

斯

Translingual

Han character

斯 (radical 69 斤+8, 12 strokes, cangjie input 廿金竹一中 (TCHML), four-corner 42821, composition ⿰其斤)

References

  • KangXi: page 480, character 4
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13563
  • Dae Jaweon: page 839, character 4
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2025, character 6
  • Unihan data for U+65AF

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 斯

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 斯
Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (斯) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
嘶 *seː
撕 *seː, *se
斯 *se
廝 *se
蟴 *se
燍 *se
鐁 *se
凘 *se
澌 *ses

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 斯
Mandarin Beijing /sz̩⁵⁵/
Harbin /sz̩⁴⁴/
Tianjin /sz̩²¹/
Jinan /sz̩²¹³/
Qingdao /sz̩²¹³/
Zhengzhou /sz̩²⁴/
Xi'an /sz̩²¹/
Xining /sz̩⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /sz̩⁴⁴/
Lanzhou /sz̩³¹/
Ürümqi /sz̩⁴⁴/
Wuhan /sz̩⁵⁵/
Chengdu /sz̩⁵⁵/
Guiyang /sz̩⁵⁵/
Kunming /sz̩⁴⁴/
Nanjing /sz̩³¹/
Hefei /sz̩²¹/
Jin Taiyuan /sz̩¹¹/
Pingyao /sz̩¹³/
Hohhot /sz̩³¹/
Wu Shanghai /sz̩⁵³/
Suzhou /sz̩⁵⁵/
Hangzhou /sz̩³³/
Wenzhou /sz̩³³/
Hui Shexian /sz̩³¹/
Tunxi /sz̩¹¹/
Xiang Changsha /sz̩³³/
Xiangtan /sz̩³³/
Gan Nanchang /sz̩⁴²/
Hakka Meixian /sz̩⁴⁴/
Taoyuan
Cantonese Guangzhou /si⁵³/
Nanning /sz̩⁵⁵/
Hong Kong /si⁵⁵/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /su⁵⁵/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /sy⁴⁴/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /su⁵⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /sɯ³³/
Haikou (Min Nan) /si²³/
Rime
Character 斯
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 心 (16)
Final (韻) 支 (11)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 息移切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /siᴇ/
Pan
Wuyun		 /siɛ/
Shao
Rongfen		 /sjɛ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /siə̆/
Li
Rong		 /sie/
Wang
Li		 /sǐe/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /sie̯/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 sī
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 斯 斯 斯
Reading # 1/3 2/3 3/3
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 sī sī sī
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ sje › ‹ sje › ‹ sje ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[s]e/ /*[s]e/ /*se/
English split (v.) this 斯須 a short time

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 斯
Reading # 1/1
No. 11995
Phonetic
component		 斯
Rime
group		 支
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 斯
Old
Chinese		 /*se/
Notes 朱駿聲雲斯爲會意字，非其聲

Definitions

斯

  1. † to lop off
  2. †this; thus; such
  3. †emphatic particle

Usage notes

  • In modern Chinese, This character is almost entirely used for phonetic translations. The character mainly represents the phoneme /s/ or /θ/ in word-final and preconsonantal positions.

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

斯

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

斯 (tư)

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