誓

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): phonetic 折 + semantic 言 (“speech”)

Han character

誓 (radical 149 言+7, 14 strokes, cangjie input 手中卜一口 (QLYMR), four-corner 5260₁, composition ⿱折言)

1. swear, pledge
2. oath

References

• KangXi: page 1162, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 35514
• Dae Jaweon: page 1627, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3973, character 5
• Unihan data for U+8A93

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Cantonese

Hanzi

誓 (Yale sai6)

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Japanese

Kanji

誓

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

• On: せい (sei), ぜい (zei)
• Kun: ちかう (chikau), ちかい (chikai)

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Mandarin

Hanzi

誓 (Pinyin bèi (bei4), shì (shi4), Wade-Giles pei⁴, shih⁴)

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Middle Chinese

Han character

誓 (*shiɛ̀i)

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Vietnamese

Han character

誓 (thệ, thề)

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