尸

See also: 戶, 户, 戸, and 屍

Translingual

Stroke order

Etymology

Pictogram (象形) - A man with his legs bending, and a side to the front. The picture is variously interpreted as either sitting or lying, with its original meaning being "corpse".

When used as a radical, 尸 is usually derived from a variation of 人 or 亻, as in 尾.

Han character

尸 (radical 44 尸+0, 3 strokes, cangjie input 尸 (S), four-corner 7720₇)

1. corpse
2. to impersonate the dead
3. to preside
4. rad. no. 44

Descendants

• ㄕ

References

• KangXi: page 299, character 26
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7630
• Dae Jaweon: page 595, character 7
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 963, character 14
• Unihan data for U+5C38

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Chinese

For pronunciation and definitions of 尸 – see 屍. (This term, 尸, is the simplified form of 屍.)

Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan.

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Japanese

Kanji

尸

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On: し (shi)
• Kun: しかばね (shikabane), かたしろ (katashiro)

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Korean

Hanja

尸 (si) (hangeul 시, revised si, McCune-Reischauer si, Yale si)

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Vietnamese

Han character

尸 (thi)

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