尻

Translingual

Han character

尻 (Kangxi radical 44, 尸+2, 5 strokes, cangjie input 尸大弓 (SKN), four-corner 7721₇, composition ⿸尸九)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 300, character 2
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7634
• Dae Jaweon: page 595, character 12
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 965, character 5
• Unihan data for U+5C3B

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		尻

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 尻
Shang	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Characters in the same phonetic series (九) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
尻	*kʰuː
訄	*kʰuː, *kʰu, *ɡu
艽	*krɯːw, *qʰrɯːw, *ɡu, *ɡʷrɯw
虓	*qʰruː
鳩	*ku
勼	*ku
九	*kuʔ
究	*kus
仇	*ɡu
鼽	*ɡu
犰	*ɡu
叴	*ɡu
厹	*ɡu
頄	*ɡu, *ɡʷrɯw
朹	*ɡu, *kʷrɯwʔ
馗	*ɡu, *ɡʷrɯw
扏	*ɡu
訅	*ɡu
釚	*ɡu
肍	*ɡu
軌	*kʷrɯwʔ
宄	*kʷrɯwʔ
氿	*kʷrɯwʔ
匭	*kʷrɯwʔ
泦	*kuɡ
旭	*qʰʷoɡ

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Standard)

  (Pinyin): kāo (kao¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄎㄠ

  (Chengdu, Sichuanese Pinyin): gou¹ / kao¹

• Cantonese (Jyutping): haau¹ / hou¹
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): kha

  (Teochew, Peng'im): ka¹ / ga¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: kāo
    • Zhuyin: ㄎㄠ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: kao
    • Wade–Giles: kʻao¹
    • Yale: kāu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: kau
    • Palladius: као (kao)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰɑʊ̯⁵⁵/
  • (Chengdu)
    • Sichuanese Pinyin: gou¹ / kao¹
    • Scuanxua Ladinxua Xin Wenz: gou / kao
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kəu⁵⁵/, /kʰau⁵⁵/

Note:

• gou1 - vernacular (usually written 溝／沟);
• kao1 - literary.

• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: haau¹ / hou¹
    • Yale: hāau / hōu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: haau¹ / hou¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: hao¹ / hou¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /haːu̯⁵⁵/, /hou̯⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kha
    • Tâi-lô: kha
    • Phofsit Daibuun: qaf
    • IPA (Xiamen): /kʰa⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /kʰa³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /kʰa⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /kʰa⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /kʰa⁴⁴/

Note: Substitute.

• • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: ka¹ / ga¹
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: kha / ka
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰa³³/, /ka³³/

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• Middle Chinese: khaw

Rime
Character	尻
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	溪 (29)
Final (韻)	豪 (89)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	苦刀切
Baxter	khaw
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kʰɑu/
Pan Wuyun	/kʰɑu/
Shao Rongfen	/kʰɑu/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kʰaw/
Li Rong	/kʰɑu/
Wang Li	/kʰɑu/
Bernard Karlgren	/kʰɑu/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	kāo
Expected Cantonese Reflex	hou1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[k]ʰˤu/

  (Zhengzhang): /*kʰuː/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	尻
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	kāo
Middle Chinese	‹ khaw ›
Old Chinese	/*[k]ʰˁu/
English	rump
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	尻
Reading #	1/1
No.	6935
Phonetic component	九
Rime group	幽
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	尻
Old Chinese	/*kʰuː/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 尻

1. (anatomy) end of spine; tailbone (coccyx) or sacrum
2. (anatomy) buttocks

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 尻 – see 㞗 (“penis; fucking; etc.”). (This character is the simplified form of 㞗).

Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China, Malaysia, and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.

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Japanese

Kanji

尻

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. buttocks
2. Used in toponyms of Hokkaido.

Readings

• Go-on: こう (kō)^{←かう (kau, historical)}
• Kan-on: こう (kō)^{←かう (kau, historical)}
• Kun: しり (shiri, 尻, Jōyō)

Compounds

• 尻(しっ)尾(ぽ) (shippo)

Etymology 1

From Proto-Japonic *siri

Noun

尻(しり) • (shiri) 

1. behind; the end
2. the rear portion of the body; bottom, buttocks
   • 2018, 吉田卓矢, 傷害致死容疑：尻に高圧空気、同僚死なす　男を逮捕 in (deprecated template usage) 毎日新聞 (Mainichi Shimbun)

     茨(いばら)城(き)県警(けんけい)竜(りゅう)ヶ崎(さき)署(しょ)は １４(じゅうよっ)日(か)、会社(かいしゃ)の同僚(どうりょう)の尻(しり)に空気(くうき)を入(い)れて死亡(しぼう)させたとして、同県(どうけん)つくば市(し)手(て)代(しろ)木(ぎ)の会社員(かいしゃいん)、吉(よし)田(だ)佳志(よしゆき)容(よう)疑者(ぎしゃ)（３４(さんじゅうよん)）を傷害(しょうがい)致死(ちし)容疑(ようぎ)で逮(たい)捕(ほ)した。

     Ibaraki Kenkei Ryūgasaki-sho wa jūyokka, kaisha no dōryō no shiri ni kūki o irete shibō saseta to shite, dōken Tsukuba-shi Teshirogi no kaishain, Yoshida Yoshiyuki yōgisha (sanjūyon) o shōgai-chishi yōgi de taiho shita.

     On the 14th, Ibaraki Prefecture Ryugasaki Police arrested suspect Yoshiyuki YOSHIDA, 34, an office worker from Teshirogi, Tsukuba City, Ibaraki Prefecture, on charges of manslaughter for pumping air into the rectum of a coworker and causing his death.

3. the bottom or underside of an object

Usage notes

Usually this is used with the polite prefix 御- (o-), as お尻.

Derived terms

• 退(しりぞ)く (shirizoku)
• 後方(こうほう) (kōhō)

Etymology 2

wisarapi > wisaraɸi > wisarawi > isarai.

Noun

尻(いさらい) • (isarai) ^{←ゐさらひ (wisarafi)?}

1. ass, butt

Etymology 3

From Ainu シㇼ (sir, “place, island”).

Affix

尻(しり) • (shiri) 

1. Used in toponyms of Hokkaido.

Compounds

• 奥(おく)尻(しり)島(とう) (Okushiri-tō): Okushiri Island
• 利(り)尻(しり)島(とう) (Rishiri-tō)

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Korean

Hanja

尻 • (go) (hangeul 고, revised go, McCune–Reischauer ko)

1. end of spine
2. buttocks, sacrum

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Okinawan

Kanji

尻

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• Kun: ちび (chibi, 尻)

Noun

尻 (hiragana ちび, romaji chibi)

1. butt

Derived terms

• 尻ぬ目 (ちびぬみー, chibi nu mī, “anus”)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 尻 (khào)

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