寺

Translingual

Stroke order

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): phonetic 止 + semantic 又 – to grasp, to hold. Phonetic 止 (之) become 土 in Clerical Script amd semantic 又 become 寸 in Small Seal Script.

The derivative 持 refers to the original word.

Han character

寺 (radical 41 寸+3, 6 strokes, cangjie input 土木戈 (GDI), four-corner 4034₁, composition ⿱土寸)

1. court, office
2. temple, monastery

Derived terms

• 待 持 詩

References

• KangXi: page 293, character 33
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7414
• Dae Jaweon: page 581, character 8
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 503, character 11
• Unihan data for U+5BFA

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Chinese

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simp. and trad.		寺

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): sì (si⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄙˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zi⁶
• Min Nan (POJ): sī

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: sì
    • Zhuyin: ㄙˋ
    • Wade-Giles: szu⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: syh
    • IPA ^(key): /sz̩⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: zi⁶
    • Yale: jih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzi⁶
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡siː²²/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sī
    • Tâi-lô: sī
    • IPA (Taipei): /ɕi³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /ɕi²²/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (寺, reconstructed)
Character (寺), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 邪 (17) Final: 之 Division: III			Openness: Open Tone: Departing (H)			Fanqie: 祥吏切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/zɨH/	/ziH/	/ziəH/	/zɨH/	/zɨH/	/zĭəH/	/zieH/

Old Chinese pronunciation (寺, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
寺								sì								‹ ziH ›								/*s-[d]əʔ-s/								hall
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
寺					12030					寺					之					0					寺					/*ljɯs/					說文之聲，文源雲象手持

Compounds

• 清真寺 (qīngzhēnsì)
• 婦寺, 妇寺 (fùsì)
• 碧云寺 (Bìyún Sì)

References

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

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Japanese

Kanji

寺

(grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. temple

Readings

• Goon: じ (ji)
• Kan’on: し (shi) (non-Jōyō reading)
• Kun: てら (tera)

Compounds

• 実相寺昭雄 (じっそうじあきお, Jissōji Akio)
• 誕生寺 (たんじょうじ, Tanjōji)
• 寺社 (じしゃ, jisha): temples and shrines

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Korean

Hanja

寺 (sa, si) (hangeul 사, 시, revised sa, si, McCune-Reischauer sa, si, Yale sa, si)

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Compounds

• 寺刹 (사찰, sachal)

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Vietnamese

Han character

寺 (tự)

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