斯

Translingual

Han character

斯 (radical 69 斤+8, 12 strokes, cangjie input 廿金竹一中 (TCHML), four-corner 4282₁, composition ⿰其斤)

1. this, thus, such
2. to lop off
3. emphatic particle

References

• KangXi: page 480, character 4
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13563
• Dae Jaweon: page 839, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2025, character 6
• Unihan data for U+65AF

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Chinese

		-
simp. and trad.		斯

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): sī (si¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄙ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): si¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: sī
    • Zhuyin: ㄙ
    • Wade-Giles: szu¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: sy
    • IPA ^(key): /sz̩⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: si¹
    • Yale: sī
    • Cantonese Pinyin: si¹
    • IPA ^(key): /siː⁵⁵/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (斯, reconstructed)
Character (斯), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 心 (16) Final: 支 Division: III			Openness: Open Tone: Level (Ø)			Fanqie: 息移切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/siᴇ/	/sie̯/	/sie/	/siɛ/	/siə̆/	/sǐe/	/sjɛ/

Old Chinese pronunciation (斯, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
斯								sī								‹ sje ›								/*[s]e/								split (v.)
斯								sī								‹ sje ›								/*[s]e/								this
斯								sī								‹ sje ›								/*se/								斯須 a short time
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
斯					11995					斯					支					0					斯					/*se/					朱駿聲雲斯爲會意字，非其聲

Definitions

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Compounds

• 斯巴达
• 斯大林
• 斯堪的纳维亚半岛
• 斯拉夫人
• 斯里贾亚瓦德纳普拉科提
• 斯里兰卡
• 斯洛伐克
• 斯洛文尼亚
• 斯美塔那
• 斯塔夫罗波尔
• 斯特拉地瓦利
• 斯特拉斯堡
• 斯图加特
• 斯威士兰
• 斯文
• 萨克斯管

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Japanese

Kanji

斯

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings

• On: し (shi)
• Kun: この (kono), これ (kore), かく (kaku)

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

斯 (tư)

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