示

See also 元

Translingual

Stroke order

Alternative forms

• 礻 (when used as a left Chinese radical)

Etymology

Pictogram (象形) – an altar.

Also a simplification of 祭, as part of compounds (際 → 际).

Han character

示 (radical 113 示+0, 5 strokes, cangjie input 一一火 (MMF), four-corner 1090₁, composition ⿱二小)

1. show, manifest
2. demonstrate

Derived characters

• Index:Chinese radical/示
• 奈 柰

References

• KangXi: page 839, character 20
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 24623
• Dae Jaweon: page 1256, character 25
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2385, character 1
• Unihan data for U+793A

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Cantonese

Hanzi

示 (Yale si6)

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Hakka

Hanzi

示 (POJ shì, Guangdong si⁵; s'i⁶ [Hailu], sii⁵ [Siyan], s'i⁵ [Kwangtung], Hagfa Pinyim si4)

References

• CCDICT (Chineselanguage.org)
• Academia Sinica - Hakka-English Dictionary
• Lau, Chun-fat. Hakka Pinyin Dictionary (Chinese). Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 1997 (Chinese IME supplement) ISBN 962-201-750-9.

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Japanese

Kanji

示 (grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: し (shi), じ (ji), き (ki)
• Kun: しめす (shimesu), しめし (shimeshi)

Compounds

• 示威 (しい, shii)
• 示唆 (しさ, shisa)
• 開示 (かいじ, kaiji)
• 掲示 (ていじ, teiji)
• 指示 (しじ, shiji)
• 表示 (ひょうじ, hyōji)

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Korean

Hanja

示 (hangeul 시, 기, revised si, gi, McCune-Reischauer si, ki, Yale si, ki)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

示 (pinyin shì (shi4), Wade-Giles shih⁴)

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Vietnamese

Han character

示 (kì, thị)