恃

恃 U+6043, 恃 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6043 ← 恂 [U+6042] CJK Unified Ideographs 恄 → [U+6044]

Translingual

Han character

恃 (Kangxi radical 61, 心+6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 心土木戈 (PGDI), four-corner 9404₁, composition ⿰忄寺)

Derived characters

• 𬾸

References

• KangXi: page 383, character 19
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 10521
• Dae Jaweon: page 713, character 10
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2293, character 15
• Unihan data for U+6043

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Chinese

trad.		恃
simp. #		恃

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
等	*tɯːʔ, *tɯːŋʔ
待	*dɯːʔ
寺	*ljɯs
持	*l'ɯ
峙	*dɯʔ
痔	*dɯʔ
跱	*dɯʔ
歭	*dɯʔ
洔	*dɯʔ, *tjɯʔ
畤	*dɯʔ, *tjɯʔ, *djɯʔ
秲	*dɯʔ, *djɯs
庤	*dɯʔ
時	*djɯ
鰣	*djɯ
塒	*djɯ
蒔	*djɯ, *djɯs
榯	*djɯ
恃	*djɯʔ
侍	*djɯs
詩	*hljɯ
邿	*hljɯ
特	*dɯːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *djɯʔ): semantic 心 (“heart”) + phonetic 寺 (OC *ljɯs)

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shì (shi⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄕˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ci⁵, si⁵
• Min Nan (POJ): sī

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: shì
    • Zhuyin: ㄕˋ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shyh
    • Tongyong Pinyin: shìh
    • Wade–Giles: shih4
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂʐ̩⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: ci⁵, si⁵
    • Yale: chíh, síh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsi⁵, si⁵
    • Guangdong Romanization: qi⁵, xi⁵
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰiː¹³/, /siː¹³/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sī
    • Tâi-lô: sī
    • Phofsit Daibuun: si
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /ɕi⁴¹/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /ɕi²²/

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• Middle Chinese: /d͡ʑɨ^X/

Rime
Character	恃
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	常 (25)
Final (韻)	之 (19)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	時止切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/d͡ʑɨX/
Pan Wuyun	/d͡ʑɨX/
Shao Rongfen	/d͡ʑieX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/d͡ʑɨX/
Li Rong	/ʑiəX/
Wang Li	/ʑĭəX/
Bernard Karlgren	/ʑiX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	shì
Expected Cantonese Reflex	si6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[d]əʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*djɯʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	恃
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	shì
Middle Chinese	‹ dzyiX ›
Old Chinese	/*[d]əʔ/
English	depend on
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	恃
Reading #	1/1
No.	12047
Phonetic component	寺
Rime group	之
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	市
Old Chinese	/*djɯʔ/

Definitions

恃

1. rely on, presume on, trust to
2. (Classical Chinese) mother

Compounds

Derived terms from 恃

• 仗恃 (zhàngshì)
• 倚恃 (yǐshì)
• 可恃 (kěshì)
• 失恃 (shīshì)
• 居功自恃
• 怙恃 (hùshì)
• 恃才傲物

• 恃才矜己
• 自恃 (zìshì)
• 恃勢凌人／恃势凌人
• 恃寵而驕／恃宠而骄 (shì chǒng ér jiāo)
• 恃強凌弱／恃强凌弱 (shìqiánglíngruò)
• 恃強欺弱／恃强欺弱
• 恃愛／恃爱

• 恃才自專／恃才自专
• 憑恃／凭恃 (píngshì)
• 有恃無恐／有恃无恐 (yǒushìwúkǒng)
• 無恃／无恃
• 矜功恃寵／矜功恃宠
• 虛憍恃氣／虚㤭恃气

References

• “恃”, 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–

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Japanese

Kanji

恃

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): じ (ji); し (shi)
• Kun: たのむ (tanomu, 恃む)

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Korean

Hanja

恃 (eum 시 (si))

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Vietnamese

Han character

恃: Hán Nôm readings: thị

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References

• Nom Foundation