私

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Contents 1 Translingual 1.1 Han character 1.1.1 References 2 Cantonese 2.1 Hanzi 3 Japanese 3.1 Kanji 3.1.1 Readings 3.2 Pronoun 3.2.1 See also 3.2.2 Compounds 4 Korean 4.1 Hanja 5 Mandarin 5.1 Hanzi 6 Vietnamese 6.1 Han character

[edit] Translingual

[edit] Han character

私 (radical 115 禾+2, 7 strokes, cangjie input 竹木戈 (HDI), four-corner 2293₀, composition ⿰禾厶)

1. private, personal
2. secret

[edit] References

• KangXi: page 849, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 24913
• Dae Jaweon: page 1271, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2589, character 6
• Unihan data for U+79C1

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[edit] Cantonese

[edit] Hanzi

私 (Yale si1)

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[edit] Japanese

[edit] Kanji

私 (grade 6 kanji)

[edit] Readings

• On: し (shi)
• Kun: わたし (watashi), わたくし (watakushi), ひそか (hisoka)

[edit] Pronoun

私 (hiragana わたし, romaji watashi)

also read as (わたくし, watakushi) more formal

also read as (あたし, atashi) generally only used by women when referring to themselves

1. I (first person pronoun)
   • 私はイギリス人だ。

     わたしはイギリスじんだ。

     Watashi wa igirisu-jin da.

     I'm English.

   • 私は何ですか?

     わたしはなんですか?

     Watashi wa nan desuka?

     What am I?

[edit] See also

• 俺 (おれ, ore)
• 僕 (ぼく, boku) I (generally used by males)
• 我 (われ, ware)

[edit] Compounds

• 私用
• 私的
• 私案
• 私文書
• 私物
• 私大
• 私道
• 私営
• 私腹を肥やす
• 私議
• 私人
• 私書箱
• 私書函
• 私共
• 私が愛する所ノ女性 (わたくしがあいするところのじょせい, watakushi ga ai suru tokoro no josei, the woman whom I love)
• 私儀
• 私自身
• 私も又
• 私する
• 私たち
• 私達
• 私宛
• 私供
• 私も亦

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[edit] Korean

[edit] Hanja

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

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[edit] Mandarin

[edit] Hanzi

私 (pinyin sī (si1), Wade-Giles ssu¹)

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[edit] Vietnamese

[edit] Han character

私 (tư, tây)