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Translingual[edit]

Stroke order
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Stroke order
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Phonosemantic interpretation[edit]

Old Chinese Initial /*s-/ lends semantic value Small/Thin/Slender. Pictogram (象形) of an erect object (compare the graphically similar and phonetically close ). Present-day meanings are via association and extension, the connection being "stand erect." Source: Howell & Morimoto

Etymology[edit]

Also simplified from , as in .

士 士 士 士
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script

Han character[edit]

(radical 33 +0, 3 strokes, cangjie input 十一 (JM), four-corner 40100, composition)

  1. scholar, gentleman
  2. soldier, non-commissioned officer
  3. A certain Chinese chess (xiangqi) piece

References[edit]

  • KangXi: page 242, character 38
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5638
  • Dae Jaweon: page 482, character 38
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 416, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+58EB

Cantonese[edit]

Hanzi[edit]

(Yale si6)


Hakka[edit]

Hanzi[edit]

(POJ sṳ, Guangdong se5 [Meixian], sii6 [Hailu], sii5 [Kwangtung, Siyan], su3 [Bao'an, Dongguan], Hagfa Pinyim si4)

References[edit]


Japanese[edit]

Kanji[edit]

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. gentleman
  2. samurai

Readings[edit]

Compounds[edit]


Korean[edit]

Hanja[edit]

(hangeul , revised sa, McCune-Reischauer sa)


Mandarin[edit]

Hanzi[edit]

(pinyin shì (shi4), Wade-Giles shih4)

Compounds[edit]


Middle Chinese[edit]

Han character[edit]

(*jrhiə̌)


Vietnamese[edit]

Han character[edit]

(, sãi, sõi, sỡi)