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誓
誓
Translingual
Han character
誓 (radical 149 言+7, 14 strokes, cangjie input 手中卜一口 (QLYMR), four-corner 52601, composition ⿱折言)
References
- KangXi: page 1162, character 1
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 35514
- Dae Jaweon: page 1627, character 1
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3973, character 5
- Unihan data for U+8A93
Chinese
|
simp. and trad. |
誓 | |
|---|---|---|
Glyph origin
| Historical forms of the character 誓
| ||
|---|---|---|
| Bronze inscriptions | Bamboo and silk script | Small seal script |
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| Characters in the same phonetic series (折) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
|---|---|
| Old Chinese | |
| 晢 | *ʔljeds, *ʔljed |
| 狾 | *ʔljeds |
| 誓 | *ɦljeds |
| 逝 | *ɦljeds |
| 銴 | *ɢljeds, *ɢʷleds |
| 折 | *l'eːl, *ʔljed, *ɦljed |
| 娎 | *hleːws, *qʰred |
| 哳 | *ʔr'eːd |
| 踅 | *sɢʷled |
| 哲 | *ʔl'ed |
| 蜇 | *ʔl'ed |
| 悊 | *ʔl'ed |
| 嚞 | *ted |
| 喆 | *ted |
| 硩 | *l̥ʰed, *l̥ʰeːɡ |
| 浙 | *ʔljed |
| 晣 | *ʔljed |
| 焎 | *hred |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ɦljeds) : phonetic 折 (OC *l'eːl, *ʔljed, *ɦljed) + semantic 言 (“speech”).
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄕˋ
- Wade-Giles: shih4
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shyh
- IPA (key): /ʂʐ̩⁵¹/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: sai6
- Yale: saih
- Cantonese Pinyin: sai6
- IPA (key): /sɐi̯²²/
- (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
- (Hokkien)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chōa
- Tâi-lô: tsuā
- Phofsit Daibuun: zoa
- IPA (Xiamen): /t͡sua²²/
- IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sua⁴¹/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡sua²²/
- IPA (Taipei): /t͡sua³³/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡sua³³/
- (Hokkien)
| Rime | |
|---|---|
| Character | 誓 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 常 (25) |
| Final (韻) | 祭 (35) |
| Tone (調) | Departing (H) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 時制切 |
| Reconstructions | |
| Zhengzhang Shangfang |
/d͡ʑiᴇiH/ |
| Pan Wuyun |
/d͡ʑiɛiH/ |
| Shao Rongfen |
/d͡ʑjæiH/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank |
/d͡ʑiajH/ |
| Li Rong |
/ʑiɛiH/ |
| Wang Li |
/ʑĭɛiH/ |
| Bernard Karlgren |
/ʑi̯ɛiH/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex |
shì |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 誓 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 16934 |
| Phonetic component |
折 |
| Rime group |
祭 |
| Rime subdivision |
2 |
| Corresponding MC rime |
逝 |
| Old Chinese |
/*ɦljeds/ |
Definitions
誓
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Japanese
Kanji
誓
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Readings
Korean
Hanja
誓 • (seo) (hangeul 서, revised seo, McCune-Reischauer sŏ, Yale se)
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Vietnamese
Han character
誓 (thệ, thề)
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