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Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Derived in the Heian period from writing the man'yōgana kanji 之 in the cursive sōsho style.
Syllable[edit]
し (romaji shi)
- The hiragana syllable し (shi). Its equivalent in katakana is シ (shi). It is the twelfth syllable in the gojūon order; its position is さ行い段 (sa-gyō i-dan, “row sa, section i”).
Derived terms[edit]
See also[edit]
- (Hiragana) 平仮名; あぁ, いぃ, うぅゔ, えぇ, おぉ, かゕが, きぎ, くぐ, けゖげ, こご, さざ, しじ, すず, せぜ, そぞ, ただ, ちぢ, つっづ, てで, とど, な, に, ぬ, ね, の, はばぱ, ひびぴ, ふぶぷ, へべぺ, ほぼぽ, ま, み, む, め, も, やゃ, ゆゅ, よょ, ら, り, る, れ, ろ, わゎ, ゐ, ゑ, を, ん, ー, ゝ, ゞ, ゟ
Etymology 2[edit]
Particle[edit]
し (rōmaji shi)
- Conjunctive particle. Follows items in a list of reasons.
- 夢野久作, 《恐ろしい東京》
- 見渡す限り百貨店みたいで、何処で切符を売っているのかわからないし、プラットフォームらしいものもないので、間違ったのかなと思って又石段を上って見ると、丸キリ知らない繁華な町である。
- Miwatasu kagiri hyakkaten mitai de, doko de kippu o utteiru no ka wakaranai shi, purattofōmu rashī mono mo nai no de, machigatta no ka na to omotte mata ishidan o nobottemiruto, marukiri shiranai hanka na machi de aru.
- What I could see looked like a department store, I had no idea where tickets were being sold, and there wasn't anything like a platform. Wondering if I haven't come to the wrong place I once again walked up the stone stairs and a bustling street I wasn't familiar with filled my vision.
- 見渡す限り百貨店みたいで、何処で切符を売っているのかわからないし、プラットフォームらしいものもないので、間違ったのかなと思って又石段を上って見ると、丸キリ知らない繁華な町である。
- けいおん！
- 「でもでも、私運動音痴だし、文化系のクラブもよくわからないし…」
- “Demo demo, watashi undō onchi da shi, bunkakei no kurabu mo yoku wakaranai shi…”
- "But—but I'm terrible at sports and I don't really know anything about the cultural clubs…"
- 「でもでも、私運動音痴だし、文化系のクラブもよくわからないし…」
- 夢野久作, 《恐ろしい東京》
Etymology 3[edit]
Cognate with demonstrative pronoun そ (so).
Pronoun[edit]
し (rōmaji shi)
- third person personal pronoun; he, she, it
- reflexive pronoun; one, oneself
- c. 759, Man'yōshū (book 18, poem 4094)
- [...] 八十伴雄乎 麻都呂倍乃 牟気乃麻尓々々 老人毛 女童児毛 之我願 心太良比尓 撫賜 治賜婆 [...]
- c. 935: Tosa Nikki (day 24)
- 廿四日。講師、むまのはなむけしにいでませり。ありとあるかみしも、わらはまでゑひしれて、一文字をだにしらぬもの、しがあしは十文字にふみてぞあそぶ。
- c. late 10th century: Ochikubo Monogatari (Volume 1)
- あなわかわかしの晝寢や。しが身のほど知らぬこそいと心憂けれ」とて、うちあざわらひ給ふ。
- c. 759, Man'yōshū (book 18, poem 4094)
Etymology 4[edit]
Reading of various Chinese words.
Noun[edit]
し (rōmaji shi)
Suffix[edit]
し (rōmaji -shi)
Etymology 5[edit]
Suffix[edit]
し (rōmaji -shi)
- (Classical Japanese, auxiliary) The adnominal form of き (ki, past tense auxiliary).
- 1994, Yumi Matsutoya (lyrics), Yumi Matsutoya (music), “春よ、来い”, performed by Yumi Matsutoya:
- 愛をくれし君の なつかしき声がする
References[edit]
- Fujii, Sadakazu; Keiji Inaga (1989) Shin Nihon Koten Bungaku Taikei 18: Ochikubo Monogatari, Sumiyoshi Monogatari (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, →ISBN
- Hasegawa, Masaharu; Yūichirō Imanishi, Hiroshi Itō, Hiroshi Yoshioka (1989) Shin Nihon Koten Bungaku Taikei 24: Tosa Nikki, Kagerō Nikki, Murasaki Shikibu Nikki, Sarashina Nikki (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, →ISBN
- Satake, Akihiro; Hideo Yamada; Rikio Kudō; Masao Ōtani; Yoshiyuki Yamazaki (c. 759) Shin Nihon Koten Bungaku Taikei 1: Man’yōshū 1 (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, published 1999, →ISBN.
- Satake, Akihiro; Hideo Yamada; Rikio Kudō; Masao Ōtani; Yoshiyuki Yamazaki (c. 759) Shin Nihon Koten Bungaku Taikei 4: Man’yōshū 4 (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, published 2003, →ISBN.
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