徙

Translingual

Alternative forms

• 𨑭

Han character

徙 (Kangxi radical 60, 彳+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 竹人卜中人 (HOYLO), four-corner 2128₁, composition ⿰彳歨)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 368, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 10142
• Dae Jaweon: page 692, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 827, character 12
• Unihan data for U+5F99

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		徙

Glyph origin

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

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

	Old Chinese
簁	*sreːl, *srel, *srelʔ
徙	*selʔ
褷	*srel
屣	*srelʔ, *srels
縰	*srelʔ
蓰	*srelʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *selʔ) : semantic 辵 (“walk”) + phonetic 止 (OC *kjɯʔ).

Alternatively: Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *selʔ) : semantic 辵 (“walk”) + abbreviated phonetic 沙 (OC *sraːl, *sraːls).

Alternatively: Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 彳 + 步.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xǐ (xi³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): saai²
• Hakka

  (Sixian, PFS): sái

  (Meixian, Guangdong): sai³

• Eastern Min (BUC): sā̤
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): sú / sí / sóa

  (Teochew, Peng'im): sua²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xǐ
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: sǐ
    • Wade–Giles: hsi³
    • Yale: syǐ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shii
    • Palladius: си (si)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: saai²
    • Yale: sáai
    • Cantonese Pinyin: saai²
    • Guangdong Romanization: sai²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /saːi̯³⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: sái
    • Hakka Romanization System: sai`
    • Hagfa Pinyim: sai³
    • Sinological IPA: /sai̯³¹/
  • (Meixian)
    • Guangdong: sai³
    • Sinological IPA: /saɪ³¹/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: sā̤
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɛ³³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sú
    • Tâi-lô: sú
    • Phofsit Daibuun: suo
    • IPA (Xiamen): /su⁵³/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /su⁵⁵⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sí
    • Tâi-lô: sí
    • Phofsit Daibuun: sie
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /si⁵³/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sóa
    • Tâi-lô: suá
    • Phofsit Daibuun: soar
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /sua⁵⁵⁴/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei): /sua⁵³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /sua⁴¹/

Note:

• sú/sí - literary;
• sóa - vernacular.

• (Teochew)
  • Peng'im: sua²
  • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: suá
  • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sua⁵²/

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• Dialectal data

Variety	Location	edit 徙
Mandarin	Beijing	/ɕi²¹⁴/
	Harbin	/ɕi⁴⁴/
	Tianjin	/ɕi¹³/
	Jinan	/ɕi²¹³/
	Qingdao	/si⁵⁵/
	Zhengzhou	/si⁵³/
	Xi'an	/ɕi²¹/
	Xining	/ɕji⁵³/
	Yinchuan	/ɕi¹³/
	Lanzhou	/ɕi⁴⁴²/
	Ürümqi	/ɕi⁵¹/
	Wuhan	/ɕi⁴²/
	Chengdu	/ɕi⁵³/
	Guiyang	/ɕi⁴²/
	Kunming	/ɕi⁵³/
	Nanjing	/si²¹²/
	Hefei	/sz̩²⁴/
Jin	Taiyuan	/ɕi⁵³/
	Pingyao
	Hohhot	/ɕi⁵³/
Wu	Shanghai	/ɕi³⁵/
	Suzhou	/si⁵⁵/
	Hangzhou	/ɕi⁵³/
	Wenzhou	/sz̩³⁵/
Hui	Shexian	/si³⁵/
	Tunxi
Xiang	Changsha	/si⁴¹/
	Xiangtan	/si⁴²/
Gan	Nanchang
Hakka	Meixian	/sai³¹/
	Taoyuan	/sɑi³¹/
Cantonese	Guangzhou	/sai³⁵/
	Nanning	/ɬɐi³⁵/
	Hong Kong	/sai³⁵/
Min	Xiamen (Hokkien)	/su⁵³/ /sua⁵³/ ～動
	Fuzhou (Eastern Min)	/sɛ³²/
	Jian'ou (Northern Min)	/si²¹/
	Shantou (Teochew)	/sua⁵³/
	Haikou (Hainanese)	/tua²¹³/

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• Middle Chinese: sjeX

Rime
Character	徙
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	心 (16)
Final (韻)	支 (11)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	斯氏切
Baxter	sjeX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/siᴇX/
Pan Wuyun	/siɛX/
Shao Rongfen	/sjɛX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/siə̆X/
Li Rong	/sieX/
Wang Li	/sǐeX/
Bernard Karlgren	/sie̯X/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	sǐ
Expected Cantonese Reflex	si2

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[s]ajʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*selʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	徙
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	xǐ
Middle Chinese	‹ sjeX ›
Old Chinese	/*[s]ajʔ/
English	move (to)
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	徙
Reading #	1/1
No.	13400
Phonetic component	徙
Rime group	歌
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	徙
Old Chinese	/*selʔ/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 徙

1. to move one's abode; to shift; to migrate

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Japanese

Kanji

徙

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: し (shi)
• Kan-on: し (shi)
• Kun: うつす (utsusu, 徙す); うつる (utsuru, 徙る)

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Korean

Hanja

徙 • (sa) (hangeul 사)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 徙 (si, tỉ)

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References

• Nom Foundation