し

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Contents 1 Translingual 1.1 Syllable 2 Japanese 2.1 Etymology 1 2.1.1 Pronoun 2.2 Etymology 2 2.2.1 Hiragana character 2.2.1.1 Related terms 2.2.1.2 Derived terms 2.3 Etymology 3 2.3.1 Noun 2.4 Etymology 4 2.4.1 Suffix 2.5 Etymology 5 2.5.1 Kanji reading 2.5.1.1 On-reading of: 2.6 References

[edit] Translingual

The Hiragana script
あぁ	かゕが	さざ	ただ	な	はばぱ	ま	やゃ	ら	わゎ	ん
いぃ	きぎ	しじ	ちぢ	に	ひびぴ	み		り	ゐ
うぅゔ	くぐ	すず	つっづ	ぬ	ふぶぷ	む	ゆゅ	る
えぇ	けゖげ	せぜ	てで	ね	へべぺ	め		れ	ゑ
おぉ	こご	そぞ	とど	の	ほぼぽ	も	よょ	ろ	を
Additional symbols ーゝゞゟ
し Unicode: U+3057Katakana: シHepburn romanization: shiNihon-shiki romanization: siPolivanov cyrillization: сиJapanese braille: ⠳

[edit] Syllable

し

1. The hiragana syllable at さ行い段 (row SA, section I) in a gojūon table.

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Stroke order

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[edit] Etymology 1

Cognate with demonstrative pronoun so.

[edit] Pronoun

し (romaji shi)

1. third person personal pronoun; he, she, it
   • c. 759: Man'yōshū (book 5, poem #904)

   [...] 夕星乃 由布弊尓奈礼婆 伊射祢余登 手乎多豆佐波里 父母毛 表者奈佐我利 三枝之 中尓乎祢牟登 愛久 志我可多良倍婆 [...]

   • c. 759: Man'yōshū (book 19, poem #4191)

   鵜河立 取左牟安由能 之我波多波 吾等尓可伎无気 念之念婆

   • c. 759: Man'yōshū (book 19, poem #4254)

   [...] 八隅知之 吾大皇 秋花 之我色々尓 見賜 明米多麻比 酒見附 榮流今日之 安夜尓貴左 [...]

2. reflexive pronoun; one, oneself
   • c. 759: Man'yōshū (book 18, poem #4094)

   [...] 八十伴雄乎 麻都呂倍乃 牟気乃麻尓々々 老人毛 女童児毛 之我願 心太良比尓 撫賜 治賜婆 [...]

   • c. 935: Tosa Nikki (day 24)

   廿四日。講師、むまのはなむけしにいでませり。ありとあるかみしも、わらはまでゑひしれて、一文字をだにしらぬもの、しがあしは十文字にふみてぞあそぶ。

   • c. late 10th century: Ochikubo Monogatari (Volume 1)

   あなわかわかしの晝寢や。しが身のほど知らぬこそいと心憂けれ」とて、うちあざわらひ給ふ。

[edit] Etymology 2

Derived in the Heian period from writing the man'yōgana kanji 之 in the cursive sōsho style.

[edit] Hiragana character

し (romaji shi)

1. The /shi/ syllable.
2. The twelfth character in the gojūon ordering of hiragana. The previous character is さ and the next character is す. The equivalent katakana character is シ.

[edit] Related terms

• For a list of words starting with し (shi) see: Special:Allpages/し

[edit] Derived terms

• しゃ (sha)
• しゅ (shu)
• しょ (sho)
• じ (ji)
  • じゃ (ja)
  • じゅ (ju)
  • じょ (jo)

[edit] Etymology 3

[edit] Noun

し (romaji shi)

1. 四: four
2. 詩: poem, verse
3. 死: death
4. 師: teacher, Reverend
5. 仕: civil service

[edit] Etymology 4

[edit] Suffix

し (romaji shi)

1. 市: city

[edit] Etymology 5

[edit] Kanji reading

し (romaji shi)

[edit] On-reading of:

• 士: gentleman, samurai

[edit] References

• Fujii, Sadakazu; Keiji Inaga (1989). Shin Nihon Koten Bungaku Taikei 18: Ochikubo Monogatari, Sumiyoshi Monogatari (in Japanese). Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten. ISBN 4-00-240018-2.
• Hasegawa, Masaharu; Yūichirō Imanishi, Hiroshi Itō, Hiroshi Yoshioka (1989). Shin Nihon Koten Bungaku Taikei 24: Tosa Nikki, Kagerō Nikki, Murasaki Shikibu Nikki, Sarashina Nikki (in Japanese). Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten. ISBN 4-00-240024-7.
• Satake, Akihiro; Hideo Yamada, Rikio Kudō, Masao Ōtani, Yoshiyuki Yamazaki [c. 759] (1999). Shin Nihon Koten Bungaku Taikei 1: Man'yōshū 1 (in Japanese). Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten. ISBN 4-00-240001-8.
• Satake, Akihiro; Hideo Yamada, Rikio Kudō, Masao Ōtani, Yoshiyuki Yamazaki [c. 759] (2003). Shin Nihon Koten Bungaku Taikei 4: Man'yōshū 4 (in Japanese). Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten. ISBN 4-00-240004-2.