尸

See also 戶, 户, 戸, and 屍

Translingual

Stroke order

Etymology

The current meaning of 尸 as a Simplified Chinese character is an extension of its old meaning: idle.

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

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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Cantonese

Hanzi

尸 (traditional 屍, jyutping si1)

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Japanese

Kanji

尸 (uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

Readings

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

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Mandarin

Hanzi

尸 (traditional 屍, pinyin shī (shi1), Wade-Giles shih¹)

Compounds

尸位素餐 (Here 尸 is NOT a simplified equivalent of 屍)

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Vietnamese

Han character

尸 (thi)