嘶

嘶	U+5636, 嘶 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5636

Translingual

Han character

嘶 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+12, 15 strokes, cangjie input 口廿金中 (RTCL), four-corner 6202₁, composition ⿰口斯)

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 207, character 14
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 4260
Dae Jaweon: page 430, character 12
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 681, character 6
Unihan data for U+5636

Chinese

simp. and trad.		嘶

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
嘶	*seː
撕	seː, se
斯	*se
廝	*se
蟴	*se
燍	*se
鐁	*se
凘	*se
澌	*ses

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *seː): semantic 口 (“mouth”) + phonetic 斯 (OC *se).

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): sī (si¹)

(Zhuyin): ㄙ
Cantonese (Jyutping): sai¹ / si¹
Hakka (Sixian, PFS): sê
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): sir / su

(Teochew, Peng'im): se¹ / soi¹

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: sī
  - Zhuyin: ㄙ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: sih
  - Wade–Giles: ssŭ¹
  - Yale: sz̄
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: sy
  - Palladius: сы (sy)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /sz̩⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: sai¹ / si¹
  - Yale: sāi / sī
  - Cantonese Pinyin: sai¹ / si¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: sei¹ / xi¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɐi̯⁵⁵/, /siː⁵⁵/

Note: si1 - variant.

Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: sê
  - Hakka Romanization System: se^ˊ
  - Hagfa Pinyim: se¹
  - Sinological IPA: /se²⁴/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sir
  - Tâi-lô: sir
  - Sinological IPA (Quanzhou): /sɯ³³/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: su
  - Tâi-lô: su
  - Phofsit Daibuun: sw
  - Sinological IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /su⁴⁴/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: se¹ / soi¹
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: sṳ / soi
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɯ³³/, /soi³³/

Note:

se1 - literary;
soi1 - vernacular.

Middle Chinese: sej

Rime
Character	嘶
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	心 (16)
Final (韻)	齊 (39)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	IV
Fanqie	先稽切
Baxter	sej
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/sei/
Pan Wuyun	/sei/
Shao Rongfen	/sɛi/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/sɛj/
Li Rong	/sei/
Wang Li	/siei/
Bernhard Karlgren	/siei/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xī
Expected Cantonese Reflex	sai¹

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*[s]ˤe/

(Zhengzhang): /*seː/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	嘶
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	sī
Middle Chinese	‹ sej ›
Old Chinese	/*[s]ˁe/
English	shriek
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	嘶
Reading #	1/1
No.	11993
Phonetic component	斯
Rime group	支
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	西
Old Chinese	/*seː/

Definitions

嘶

neighing of a horse
husky throated; gravel voiced
嘶啞／嘶哑 ― sīyǎ ― hoarse; husky
(of birds; insects) mournful murmur; whimpering
天霜河白夜星稀，一雁聲嘶何處歸。 [MSC, trad.]
天霜河白夜星稀，一雁声嘶何处归。 [MSC, simp.]
From: Emperor Jianwen of Liang 梁簡文帝, 《夜望單飛雁》
Tiān shuāng hé bái yè xīng xī, yī yàn shēng sī héchù guī. [Pinyin]
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(onomatopoeia, of various sounds) eg. sound of paper being shredded; sobbing
老翁夜行無子攜，眼昏失腳非有擠；明日尋者爾瘦妻，手提幼女哭嘶嘶。 [MSC, trad.]
老翁夜行无子携，眼昏失脚非有挤；明日寻者尔瘦妻，手提幼女哭嘶嘶。 [MSC, simp.]
From: Mei Yaochen 梅堯臣, 《淘渠》
Lǎowēng yè xíng wú zǐ xié, yǎn hūn shī jiǎo fēi yǒu jǐ; míngrì xún zhě ěr shòu qī, shǒu tí yòunǚ kū sīsī. [Pinyin]
(please add an English translation of this usage example)

Compounds

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 嘶 – see 𤺊 (“(Cantonese) to hiccup”). (This character is a variant form of 𤺊).

References

Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A00685
“嘶”, 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

Kanji

嘶

(Hyōgai kanji)

to neigh, to whinny

Readings

Go-on: さい (sai)
Kan-on: せい (sei)
Kan’yō-on: し (shi)
Kun: いななく (inanaku, 嘶く)、いばえる (ibaeru, 嘶える)^{←いばへる (ibaferu, 嘶へる, historical)}、ころろく (kororoku, 嘶く)

Compounds

悲嘶(ひせい) (hisei)

Korean

Hanja

嘶 • (si) (hangeul 시, revised si, McCune–Reischauer si)

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Vietnamese

Han character

嘶: Hán Nôm readings: tê

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References

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