屎

Translingual

Han character

屎 (Kangxi radical 44, 尸+6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 尸火木 (SFD), four-corner 7729₄, composition ⿸尸米)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 301, character 25
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7689
• Dae Jaweon: page 598, character 15
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 973, character 6
• Unihan data for U+5C4E

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Chinese

trad.		屎
simp. #		屎

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 屎
Shang	Western Zhou	Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script

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

	Old Chinese
杘	*l̥ʰis
尸	*hli
鳲	*hli
屍	*hli, *hlis
屎	*hliʔ, *hri

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) and phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *hliʔ, *hri) : phonetic 尸 (OC *hli, “body”) + semantic 米 (“rice”). The 米 component was originally three to five dots (four dots was the most common one; faeces coming out of the backside) in the oracle bone script, thus representing a man defecating.

Etymology 1

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *kləj (“excrement”).

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 屎

1. excrement; poop (Classifier: 坨 m; 篤／笃 c; 坺 c)
2. secretion from the body; tear, earwax, snot, etc.
3. residue; waste; debris
4. (vulgar) worthless; useless; despicable
5. (vulgar) useless thing

Synonyms

• (excrement): 糞／粪 (fèn), 便 (biàn)

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xī (xi¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): hei¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xī
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: si
    • Wade–Giles: hsi¹
    • Yale: syī
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shi
    • Palladius: си (si)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: hei¹
    • Yale: hēi
    • Cantonese Pinyin: hei¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: héi¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hei̯⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: xjij

Rime
Character	屎
Reading #	1/2
Initial (聲)	曉 (32)
Final (韻)	脂 (15)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	喜夷切
Baxter	xjij
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/hiɪ/
Pan Wuyun	/hi/
Shao Rongfen	/xjɪ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/hi/
Li Rong	/xi/
Wang Li	/xi/
Bernard Karlgren	/xi/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xī
Expected Cantonese Reflex	hei1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[qʰ]ij/

  (Zhengzhang): /*hri/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	屎
Reading #	2/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	xī
Middle Chinese	‹ xjij ›
Old Chinese	/*[qʰ]ij/ (dialect: *qʰ- > *x-, no palatalization)
English	moan
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	屎
Reading #	2/2
No.	11401
Phonetic component	尸
Rime group	脂
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	咦
Old Chinese	/*hri/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 屎

1. ^† Only used in 殿屎 (“to groan”).

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Japanese

Kanji

屎

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. excrement, feces, poop

Readings

• Go-on: し (shi)
• Kan-on: し (shi)
• Kun: くそ (kuso, 屎); ばば (baba, 屎)

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
屎
くそ Hyōgaiji
kun'yomi

From Proto-Japonic *kuso. Cognate with 臭い (kusai, “stinky, smelly”), 腐る (kusaru, “to rot, to become stinky”).

Alternative forms

• 糞

Noun

屎(くそ) • (kuso) 

1. (colloquial) feces, excrement

Derived terms

Derived terms

• 屎(くそ)っ垂(た)れ (kusottare): dingleberry (vulgar epithet)
• 目屎(めくそ) (mekuso): rheum, eye mucus

Idioms

Idioms

• 屎(くそ)にする (kuso ni suru): “to turn something into shit; to treat something as shit” → to make something worthless; to treat something as worthless
• 屎(くそ)の役(やく)にも立(た)たぬ (kuso no yaku ni mo tatanu): “not even standing in the role of shit” → not even good for shit

  (See 役(やく)に立(た)つ (yaku ni tatsu): “to be useful, to play a role”)

• 屎(くそ)も味噌(みそ)も一緒(いっしょ) (kuso mo miso mo issho): “both crap and miso together” → a situation where it is difficult to tell the good from the bad

Interjection

屎(くそ) • (kuso) 

1. (swear word) shit

Usage notes

This is not considered as profane as the English glosses. For instance, a child of five using the Japanese interjection kuso would be unremarkable, whereas it would be very socially inappropriate for a child of five to use the English interjection shit.

Prefix

屎(くそ) • (kuso-) 

1. A derogatory prefix.

   屎(くそ)爺(じじ)い

   kusojijī

   crappy old man

Suffix

屎(くそ) • (-kuso) 

1. A derogatory emphasizing suffix.

   下手(へた)屎(くそ)

   hetakuso

   crappy bad at something; to be shit at doing something

   襤褸(ぼろ)屎(くそ)

   borokuso

   broken down for shit, raggedy-ass

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
屎
ばば Hyōgaiji
kun'yomi

Appears to derive from baby talk. Compare English poopoo.

Alternative forms

• 糞

Noun

屎(ばば) • (baba) 

1. (children's word): poopoo, poop, dookie
2. (children's word): something unclean

Idioms

Idioms

• 猫屎(ねこばば)する (nekobabasuru): to sweep something under the rug → to hide a problem without actually dealing with it (from how a cat will bury its poop)

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Korean

Hanja

屎 • (si) (hangeul 시)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 屎 (thỉ, xái)

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