獅

See also: 狮

Translingual

Han character

獅 (radical 94 犬+10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 大竹竹口月 (KHHRB), four-corner 4122₇)

1. lion

References

• KangXi: page 717, character 10
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 20609
• Dae Jaweon: page 1128, character 25
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1363, character 4
• Unihan data for U+7345

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Cantonese

Hanzi

獅 (simplified 狮, Jyutping si1, Yale si1)

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Japanese

Kanji

獅

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

1. a lion

Readings

• On: し (shi)
• Kun: (rare) しし (shishi)

Etymology

From Middle Chinese.

Pronunciation

• On'yomi
• IPA^(key): [ɕi]

Noun

獅 (hiragana し, romaji shi)

1. lion

Usage notes

Very rarely used on its own. The shishi reading is almost always spelled as 獅子.

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Mandarin

Etymology

From Middle Chinese /ʃɣiɪ/, from Old Chinese /*srij/, likely from Middle Persian 𐭱𐭩𐭥 (šēr).

獅 / 獅子 / 師 / 師子 was first mentioned in the Book of Han (finished 111 CE), in the description of the "specialties" of the 烏弋山離 country in the Western Regions. 烏弋山離 in Old Chinese had a pronunciation of /*ʔa lək sren raj/, hence referring to *Alexandria, likely "Alexandria Prophthasia", which was part of the Parthian Empire during the time of Han, speaking an Indo-Iranian language.

Hanzi

獅 (simplified 狮, Pinyin shī (shi1), Wade-Giles shih¹)

1. a lion

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Vietnamese

Han character

獅 (sư)

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Readings

• Nôm: sư

References

• Thiều Chửu : Hán Việt Tự Điển Hà Nội 1942
• Trần Văn Chánh: Từ Điển Hán Việt NXB Trẻ, Ho Chi Minh Ville, 1999
• Vũ Văn Kính: Đại Tự Điển Chữ Nôm , NXB Văn Nghệ, Ho Chi Minh Ville, 1999