屎

Translingual

Etymology

The character is a pictograph representing [the remains of] rice (i.e. food, represented by the Chinese character 米) being excreted out of a human body (尸); additionally, the radical 尸 is used for its phonetic value.

Han character

屎 (radical 44 尸+6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 尸火木 (SFD), four-corner 7729₄, composition ⿸尸米)

1. excrement, dung

Synonyms

• 糞

References

• KangXi: page 301, character 25
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7689
• Dae Jaweon: page 598, character 15
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 973, character 6
• Unihan data for U+5C4E

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Cantonese

Hanzi

屎 (Jyutping hei1, si2, Yale hei1, si2)

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Japanese

Kanji

屎

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On: し (shi), き (ki)
• Kun: くそ (kuso)

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Mandarin

Hanzi

屎 (Pinyin shǐ (shi3), Wade-Giles shih³)

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Middle Chinese

Han character

屎 (śí)

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Min Nan

Hanzi

屎 (TLPA sú (su²), sái (sai²))

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References

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

屎 (thỉ, xái)

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