祠

祠 U+7960, 祠 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7960 ← 祟 [U+795F] CJK Unified Ideographs 祡 → [U+7961]

Translingual

Han character

祠 (Kangxi radical 113, 示+5, 10 strokes, cangjie input 戈火尸一口 (IFSMR), four-corner 3722₀, composition ⿰礻司)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 842, character 6
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 24676
• Dae Jaweon: page 1262, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2395, character 1
• Unihan data for U+7960

Chinese

simp. and trad.		祠

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (司) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
司	*slɯ
伺	*slɯ, *slɯs
覗	*slɯ, *slɯs
笥	*slɯ, *slɯs
詞	*ljɯ
祠	*ljɯ
柌	*ljɯ
嗣	*ljɯs
孠	*ljɯs
飼	*ljɯs
呞	*hljɯ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ljɯ) and ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : semantic 礻 (“divinity”) + phonetic 司 (OC *slɯ).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): cí (ci²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄘˊ

• Cantonese

  (Guangzhou–Hong Kong, Jyutping): ci⁴

  (Taishan, Wiktionary): lhu³

• Hakka

  (Sixian, PFS): chhì

  (Meixian, Guangdong): ci²

• Eastern Min (BUC): sṳ̀
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): sîr / sû / sî

  (Teochew, Peng'im): se⁵

• Wu (Wugniu)
  • (Northern): ⁶zy

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: cí
    • Zhuyin: ㄘˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: cíh
    • Wade–Giles: tzʻŭ²
    • Yale: tsź
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tsyr
    • Palladius: цы (cy)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰz̩³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: ci⁴
    • Yale: chìh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsi⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: qi⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰiː²¹/
  • (Taishanese, Taicheng)
    • Wiktionary: lhu³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɬu²²/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chhì
    • Hakka Romanization System: qiˇ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: qi²
    • Sinological IPA: /t͡sʰi¹¹/
  • (Meixian)
    • Guangdong: ci²
    • Sinological IPA: /t͡sʰz̩¹¹/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: sṳ̀
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sy⁵³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sîr
    • Tâi-lô: sîr
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /sɯ²⁴/
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sû
    • Tâi-lô: sû
    • Phofsit Daibuun: suu
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /su²³/
    • IPA (Taipei, Xiamen): /su²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /su¹³/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sî
    • Tâi-lô: sî
    • Phofsit Daibuun: sii
    • IPA (Xiamen): /si²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /si¹³/

Note:

• sîr/sû - literary;
• sî - vernacular.

• (Teochew)
  • Peng'im: se⁵
  • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: sṳ̂
  • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɯ⁵⁵/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ⁶zy
    • MiniDict: zy^去
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ³zr
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /zz̩²³/

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• Middle Chinese: zi

Rime
Character	祠
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	邪 (17)
Final (韻)	之 (19)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	似兹切
Baxter	zi
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/zɨ/
Pan Wuyun	/zɨ/
Shao Rongfen	/zie/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/zɨ/
Li Rong	/ziə/
Wang Li	/zĭə/
Bernard Karlgren	/zi/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	sí
Expected Cantonese Reflex	ci4

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*sə.lə/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ljɯ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	祠
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	cí
Middle Chinese	‹ zi ›
Old Chinese	/*sə.lə/
English	sacrifice
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	祠
Reading #	1/1
No.	11959
Phonetic component	司
Rime group	之
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	詞
Old Chinese	/*ljɯ/

Definitions

祠

1. ancestral temple
2. (literary) to offer sacrifice
3. (literary) spring sacrifice

Compounds

• 仁祠
• 叢祠／丛祠
• 史祠 (Shǐcí)
• 奉祠
• 宗祠 (zōngcí)
• 家祠 (jiācí)
• 淫祠
• 生祠 (shēngcí)
• 祠兵
• 祠堂 (cítáng)
• 祠宇
• 祠官
• 禖祠
• 行祠
• 雷家祠 (Léijiācí)
• 龍祠／龙祠

 

References

• “祠”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Japanese

Alternative forms

Kanji in this term
祠
ほこら Hyōgaiji
kun’yomi

• 叢祠

Kanji

祠

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: じ (ji)
• Kan-on: し (shi)
• Kun: ほこら (hokora, 祠); まつる (matsuru, 祠る)

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) ほこら [hòkórá] (Heiban – [0])
• (Tokyo) ほこら​ [hòkóráꜜ] (Odaka – [3])
• IPA^(key): [ho̞ko̞ɾa̠]

Noun

祠(ほこら) • (hokora) 

1. a small shrine

Synonyms

• 神庫

Korean

Hanja

祠 • (sa) (hangeul 사, revised sa, McCune–Reischauer sa, Yale sa)

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Vietnamese

Han character

祠: Hán Nôm readings: từ, thờ, tờ

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