嗜

嗜 U+55DC, 嗜 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-55DC ← 嗛 [U+55DB] CJK Unified Ideographs 嗝 → [U+55DD]

Translingual

Han character

嗜 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 口十心日 (RJPA), four-corner 6406₁, composition ⿰口耆)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 203, character 6
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 4089
• Dae Jaweon: page 425, character 25
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 664, character 16
• Unihan data for U+55DC

Chinese

trad.		嗜
simp. #		嗜
alternative forms		呩

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 嗜
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

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

	Old Chinese
稽	*kiː, *kʰiːʔ
詣	*ŋɡiːs
栺	*ŋɡiːs, *kji
榰	*klje
脂	*kji
鴲	*kji, *kjis
指	*kjiʔ
旨	*kjiʔ
恉	*kjiʔ
嗜	*ɡjis
蓍	*qʰlji
鰭	*ɡri
耆	*ɡri
鮨	*ɡri
鬐	*ɡri

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shì (shi⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄕˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): si³
• Eastern Min (BUC): siê
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): si⁵
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): sī

  (Teochew, Peng'im): si⁷ / ci¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: shì
    • Zhuyin: ㄕˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: shìh
    • Wade–Giles: shih⁴
    • Yale: shr̀
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shyh
    • Palladius: ши (ši)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂʐ̩⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: si³
    • Yale: si
    • Cantonese Pinyin: si³
    • Guangdong Romanization: xi³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /siː³³/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: siê
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /siɛ²⁴²/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: si⁵
    • Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: sī
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɬi¹¹/
  • (Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: si⁵
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɬi²¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sī
    • Tâi-lô: sī
    • Phofsit Daibuun: si
    • Sinological IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /si³³/
    • Sinological IPA (Quanzhou): /si⁴¹/
    • Sinological IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /si²²/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: si⁷ / ci¹
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: sī / tshi
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /si¹¹/, /t͡sʰi³³/

Note: ci1 - vernacular (俗讀).

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• Middle Chinese: dzyijH

Rime
Character	嗜
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	常 (25)
Final (韻)	脂 (15)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	常利切
Baxter	dzyijH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/d͡ʑiɪH/
Pan Wuyun	/d͡ʑiH/
Shao Rongfen	/d͡ʑjɪH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/d͡ʑiH/
Li Rong	/ʑiH/
Wang Li	/ʑiH/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ʑiH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	shì
Expected Cantonese Reflex	si6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[ɡ]ij-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɡjis/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	嗜
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	shì
Middle Chinese	‹ dzyijH ›
Old Chinese	/*[ɡ]ij-s/
English	enjoy
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	嗜
Reading #	1/1
No.	17329
Phonetic component	旨
Rime group	脂
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	嗜
Old Chinese	/*ɡjis/

Definitions

嗜

1. to be addicted to; to indulge in; to have weakness for

   • 不嗜殺人者能一之。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     不嗜杀人者能一之。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: Mencius, c. 4^th century BCE

     Bù shì shā rén zhě néng yī zhī. [Pinyin]

     He who has no pleasure in killing men can so unite it.

   • 石室詩士施氏，嗜獅，誓食十獅。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     石室诗士施氏，嗜狮，誓食十狮。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: Yuen Ren Chao, Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den, 1930

     Shíshì shīshì Shī shì, shì shī, shì shí shí shī. [Pinyin]

     A poet named Shi lived in a stone room, who was fond of eating lions, so he swore that he would eat ten lions.

2. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) to covet

Compounds

• 嗜之如命
• 嗜好 (shìhào)
• 嗜慾 / 嗜欲 (shìyù)
• 嗜殺成性 / 嗜杀成性
• 嗜痂之癖
• 嗜痂成癖
• 嗜睡症 (shìshuìzhèng)
• 嗜血 (shìxuè)
• 嗜酒 (shìjiǔ)
• 癖嗜
• 酷嗜

References

• “嗜”, 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–
• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “嗜”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 212.

Japanese

Kanji

嗜

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. like
2. prefer

Readings

• Go-on: じ (ji)
• Kan-on: し (shi)
• Kun: たしなむ (tashinamu, 嗜む)

Korean

Hanja

嗜 • (gi) (hangeul 기, revised gi, McCune–Reischauer ki)

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Vietnamese

Han character

嗜: Hán Nôm readings: thị

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References

• Nom Foundation