诗

See also 詩

Translingual

simplified	诗
traditional	詩

Etymology

Simplified from 詩 (讠 → 言).

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 讠 (“speech”) + phonetic 寺 – poetry is a form of language, speech.

Han character

诗 (radical 149 讠+6, 8 strokes, cangjie input 戈女土木戈 (IVGDI))

1. poetry
2. poem, verse, ode

References

• KangXi: not present, would follow page 1188, character 18
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3961, character 6
• Unihan data for U+8BD7

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Cantonese

Hanzi

诗 (traditional 詩, Yale si1)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

诗 (traditional 詩, pinyin shī (shi1), Wade-Giles shih¹)