室

Translingual

Stroke order

Wikipedia

Han character

室 (radical 40 宀+6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 十一戈土 (JMIG), four-corner 3010₄, composition ⿱宀至)

1. room, chamber
2. home, house
3. (in addresses): apartment number, flat number
4. (astronomy) Encampment, a Chinese constellation near Pegasus

References

• KangXi: page 285, character 2
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7136
• Dae Jaweon: page 563, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 925, character 3
• Unihan data for U+5BA4

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Chinese

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simp. and trad.		室

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shì, Shì (shi⁴, Shi⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄕˋ, ㄕˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): sat¹
• Min Nan (POJ): sek

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: shì
    • Zhuyin: ㄕˋ
    • Wade-Giles: shih⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shyh
    • IPA ^(key): /ʂʐ̩⁵¹/
      
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: Shì
    • Zhuyin: ㄕˋ
    • Wade-Giles: shih⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Shyh
    • IPA ^(key): /ʂʐ̩⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: sat¹
    • Yale: sāt
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sat⁷
    • IPA ^(key): /sɐt̚⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sek
    • Tâi-lô: sik
    • IPA (Taipei): /ɕɪk̚³²/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /ɕɪk̚³²/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (室, reconstructed)
Character (室), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 書 (26) Final: 質 Division: III			Openness: Open Tone: Checked (Ø)			Fanqie: 式質切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/ɕiɪt̚/	/ɕi̯ĕt̚/	/ɕiĕt̚/	/ɕit̚/	/ɕit̚/	/ɕĭĕt̚/	/ɕjet̚/

Old Chinese pronunciation (室, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
室								shì								‹ syit ›								/*s.ti[t]/								chamber; house
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
室					17374					至					質					2					失					/*hliɡ/

Compounds

• 室友 (roommate)
• 室宿

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Japanese

Kanji

室

(grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. room

Readings

• Goon: しち (shichi) (non-Jōyō reading)
• Kan’on: しつ (shitsu)
• Kun: むろ (muro), へや (heya)

Compounds

• 寝室 (しんしつ, shinshitsu, “bedroom”)
• 教室 (きょうしつ, kyōshitsu, “classroom”)
• 霊安室 (れいあんしつ, reianshitsu, “morgue”)

Noun

室 (hiragana しつ, romaji shitsu)

1. room, cellar

Suffix

室 (hiragana しつ, romaji -shitsu)

1. room

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Korean

Hanja

室 (sil)
Eumhun:

• Sound (hangeul): 실 (revised: sil, McCune-Reischauer: shil, Yale: sil)

• Name (hangeul): 집 (revised: jip, McCune-Reischauer: chip, Yale: cip)

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Compounds

• 실내 (室內, silnae)
• 교실 (敎室, gyosil)
• 객실 (客室, gaeksil)
• 거실 (居室, geosil)
• 별실 (別室, byeolsil)
• 침실 (寢室, jimsil)
• 암실 (暗室, amsil)
• 정실 (正室, jeongsil)
• 측실 (側室, cheuksil)
• 내실 (內室, naesil)
• 석실 (石室, seoksil)
• 빙실 (氷室, bingsil)
• 황실 (皇室, hwangsil)
• 왕실 (王室, wangsil)
• 사무실 (事務室, samusil)

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Vietnamese

Han character

室 (thất)

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