寺

Translingual

Stroke order

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): phonetic 止 + semantic 寸 (“hand”) – giving an offering with the hand at a temple. Phonetic 止 (之) here written as 土.

Han character

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

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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Cantonese

Hanzi

寺 (jyutping zi6, Yale ji6)

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Japanese

Kanji

寺 (grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: じ (ji), し (shi)
• 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 (hangeul 사, 시, revised sa, si, McCune-Reischauer sa, si)

Compounds

• 寺刹 (사찰, sachal)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

寺 (pinyin sì (si4), Wade-Giles ssu⁴)

Compounds

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

寺 (tự)