犀

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): phonetic 尾 + semantic 牛 (“ox”)

Han character

犀 (radical 93 牛+8, 12 strokes, cangjie input 尸水竹手 (SEHQ), 尸卜卜手 (SYYQ), four-corner 7725₁)

1. rhinoceros
2. sharp, hard, well-tempered (as metal)

Derived characters

• 遲

References

• KangXi: page 701, character 14
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 20045
• Dae Jaweon: page 1114, character 23
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1815, character 1
• Unihan data for U+7280

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Chinese

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simp. and trad.		犀

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xī (xi¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): sai¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: xī
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧ
    • Wade-Giles: hsih¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shi
    • IPA ^(key): /ɕi⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: sai¹
    • Yale: sāi
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sai¹
    • IPA ^(key): /sɐi̯⁵⁵/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (犀, reconstructed)
Character (犀), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 心 (16) Final: 齊 Division: IV			Openness: Open Tone: Level (Ø)			Fanqie: 先稽切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/sei/	/siei/	/sei/	/sei/	/sɛj/	/siei/	/sɛi/

Old Chinese pronunciation (犀, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
犀								xī								‹ sej ›								/*s.lˤəj/								rhinoceros
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
犀					13345					犀					脂					1					西					/*sliːl/					說文尾聲

Compounds

• 犀牛
• 犀利
• 木犀

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Japanese

Kanji

犀

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

Readings

• Goon: さい (sai)
• Kan’on: せい (sei)
• Kun: かたい (katai), するどい (surudoi)

Noun

犀 (hiragana さい, katakana サイ, romaji sai)

1. rhinoceros

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Korean

Hanja

犀 (seo) (hangeul 서, revised seo, McCune-Reischauer sŏ, Yale se)

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Vietnamese

Han character

犀 (tê, tây)

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