司

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

司 (radical 30 口+2, 5 strokes, cangjie input 尸一口 (SMR), four-corner 1762₀, composition ⿹𠃌𠮛)

1. take charge of, control, manage
2. officer
3. a surname

Derived characters

• 伺 詞 (词)

References

• KangXi: page 174, character 3
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3257
• Dae Jaweon: page 385, character 8
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 572, character 8
• Unihan data for U+53F8

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Chinese

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simp. and trad.		司

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): sī, yù (si¹, yu⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄙ, ㄩˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): si¹
• Min Nan (POJ): sai / si / su

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: sī
    • Zhuyin: ㄙ
    • Wade-Giles: szu¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: sy
    • IPA ^(key): /sz̩⁵⁵/
      
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: yù
    • Zhuyin: ㄩˋ
    • Wade-Giles: yü⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yiw
    • IPA ^(key): /y⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: si¹
    • Yale: sī
    • Cantonese Pinyin: si¹
    • IPA ^(key): /siː⁵⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sai / si / su
    • Tâi-lô: sai / si / su
    • IPA (Taipei): /saɪ⁴⁴/, /ɕi⁴⁴/, /su⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /saɪ³⁴/, /ɕi³⁴/, /su³⁴/
  • Note: sai, si - vernacular, su - literary.

Middle Chinese pronunciation (司, reconstructed)
Character (司), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 心 (16) Final: 之 Division: III			Openness: Open Tone: Level (Ø)			Fanqie: 息兹切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/sɨ/	/si/	/siə/	/sɨ/	/sɨ/	/sĭə/	/sie/

Old Chinese pronunciation (司, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
司								sī								‹ si ›								/*s-lə/								superintend
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					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
司					11951					司					之					0					思					/*slɯ/

Definitions

司

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Compounds

• 司舵
• 司法
• 司号员
• 司机, 司機
• 司空见惯
• 司令
• 司令部
• 司令员
• 司炉
• 司南
• 司售人员
• 司药
• 司仪
• 司长
• 寿司
• 贝司
• 公司

Phrase

• 司马昭之心，路人皆知

References

• Taiwan Min Nan Common Words Dictionary (臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典)

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Japanese

Kanji

司

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

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Readings

• Goon: し (shi)
• Kan’on: し (shi)
• Kan’yōon: す (su, rare)
• On (unclassified): じ (ji)
• Kun: つかさどる (tsukasadoru), つかさ (tsukasa)

Compounds

• 司会
• 司書
• 司法
• 司令
• 行司
• 寿司 (すし, sushi, “sushi”)

Proper noun

司 (hiragana つかさ, romaji Tsukasa)

1. A male given name

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Korean

Hanja

司 (sa) (hangeul 사, revised sa, McCune-Reischauer sa)

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Vietnamese

Han character

司 (ti, tư, tơ, hoàng)

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