司

Translingual

Stroke order

Etymology

Ideogrammic compound (會意): 口 ‎(“mouth”) + 人 ‎(“man”), a man issuing orders.

Han character

司 (radical 30 口+2, 5 strokes, cangjie input 尸一口 (SMR), four-corner 1762₀, composition ⿹𠃌𠮛)

Derived characters

• 伺 詞 (词)

References

• KangXi: page 174, character 3
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3257
• Dae Jaweon: page 385, character 8
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 572, character 8
• Unihan data for U+53F8

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		司

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): sī (si¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄙ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): si¹
• Min Nan (POJ): sai / si / su

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: sī
    • Zhuyin: ㄙ
    • Wade-Giles: szu¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: sy
    • IPA ^(key): /sz̩⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: si¹
    • Yale: sī
    • Cantonese Pinyin: si¹
    • IPA ^(key): /siː⁵⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sai / si / su
    • Tâi-lô: sai / si / su
    • Phofsit Daibuun: say, sy, sw
    • IPA (Taipei): /saɪ⁴⁴/, /ɕi⁴⁴/, /su⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /saɪ⁴⁴/, /ɕi⁴⁴/, /su⁴⁴/
    • Note: sai, si - vernacular, su - literary.

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• Middle Chinese: /sɨ/▼

Rime
Character	司
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	心 (16)
Final (韻)	之 (19)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	息兹切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/sɨ/
Pan Wuyun	/sɨ/
Shao Rongfen	/sie/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/sɨ/
Li Rong	/siə/
Wang Li	/sĭə/
Bernard Karlgren	/si/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	sī

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter-Sagart): /*s-lə/

  (Zhengzhang): /*slɯ/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	司
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	sī
Middle Chinese	‹ si ›
Old Chinese	/*s-lə/
English	superintend
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	司
Reading #	1/1
No.	11951
Phonetic component	司
Rime group	之
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	思
Old Chinese	/*slɯ/

Definitions

司

1. take charge of, control, manage
2. officer
3. A surname​.

Compounds

• 公司 (gōngsī)
• 司令 (sīlìng)
• 司令員／司令员
• 司令部 (sīlìngbù)
• 司儀／司仪 (sīyí)
• 司南

• 司售人員／司售人员
• 司機／司机 (sījī)
• 司法 (sīfǎ)
• 司爐／司炉 (sīlú)
• 司空見慣／司空见惯
• 司舵

• 司藥／司药
• 司號員／司号员
• 司長／司长
• 壽司／寿司 (shòusī)
• 貝司／贝司 (bèisī)

Phrase

• 司馬昭之心，路人皆知／司马昭之心，路人皆知

References

• “Query for 司”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan], Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2011.

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Japanese

Kanji

司

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

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Readings

• Goon: し (shi)
• Kan’on: し (shi)
• Kan’yōon: す (su, rare)
• On (unclassified): じ (ji)
• Kun: つかさどる (tsukasadoru), つかさ (tsukasa)

Compounds

Terms derived from 司

• 司令
• 司会

• 司書

• 司法

• 寿司 (すし, ​sushi)

• 行司

Proper noun

司 ‎(hiragana つかさ, romaji Tsukasa)

1. A male given name

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Korean

Hanja

司 • ‎(sa) (hangeul 사, revised sa, McCune-Reischauer sa)

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Vietnamese

Han character

司 (ti, tư, tơ, tương)

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