巳

See also: 己 and 已

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

巳 (radical 49 己+0, 3 strokes, cangjie input 口山 (RU), four-corner 7771₇)

1. sixth of twelve earthly branches (十二支): snake (蛇) of Chinese zodiac

Derived characters

• Index:Chinese radical/己
• 包 (Chinese form)
• 导

References

• KangXi: page 326, character 12
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 8744
• Dae Jaweon: page 631, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 984, character 2
• Unihan data for U+5DF3

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Chinese

		-
simp. and trad.		巳

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): sì (si⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄙˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zi⁶
• Min Nan (POJ): chī / sū

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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: chī / sū
    • Tâi-lô: tsī / sū
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡ɕi³³/, /su³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡ɕi²²/, /su²²/
  • Note: chī - vernacular, sū - literary.

Middle Chinese pronunciation (巳, reconstructed)
Character (巳), Pronunciation 1/3
Initial: 以 (36) Final: 之 Division: III			Openness: Open Tone: Rising (X)			Fanqie: 羊己切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/jɨX/	/iX/	/iəX/	/jɨX/	/jɨX/	/jĭəX/	/ieX/
Character (巳), Pronunciation 2/3
Initial: 邪 (17) Final: 之 Division: III			Openness: Open Tone: Rising (X)			Fanqie: 詳里切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/zɨX/	/ziX/	/ziəX/	/zɨX/	/zɨX/	/zĭəX/	/zieX/
Character (巳), Pronunciation 3/3
Initial: 以 (36) Final: 之 Division: III			Openness: Open Tone: Departing (H)			Fanqie: 羊吏切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/jɨH/	/iH/	/iəH/	/jɨH/	/jɨH/	/jĭəH/	/ieH/

Old Chinese pronunciation (巳, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
巳								sì								‹ ziX ›								/*s-[ɢ]əʔ/								6th earthly branch
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
巳					12007					巳					之					0					似					/*ljɯʔ/
巳					12018					巳					之					0					異					/*lɯs/

Compounds

• 巳蛇
• 巳时 (simp.), 巳時 (trad.)

References

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

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Japanese

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Kanji

巳

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

1. sign of the snake

Readings

• On: し (shi)
• Kun: み (mi)

Noun

巳 (hiragana み, romaji mi)

1. the sign of the snake in the Chinese zodiac

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Korean

Hanja

巳 (sa) (hangeul 사, revised sa, McCune-Reischauer sa, Yale sa)

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Vietnamese

Han character

巳 (tị, anh)

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