施

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 㫃 + phonetic 也

Han character

施 (radical 70 方+5, 9 strokes, cangjie input 卜尸人心木 (YSOPD), four-corner 0821₂, composition ⿰方⿱𠂉也)

1. grant, bestow
2. give
3. act
4. name

References

• KangXi: page 482, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13629
• Dae Jaweon: page 843, character 10
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2176, character 6
• Unihan data for U+65BD

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Cantonese

Hanzi

施 (Jyutping si1, Yale si1)

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Japanese

Kanji

施

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

• Goon: い (i), せ (se)
• Kan’on: い (i), し (shi)
• Kun: ほどこす (hodokosu), しく (shiku)

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Korean

Hanja

施 (si, i) (hangeul 시, 이, revised si, i, McCune-Reischauer si, i, Yale si, i)

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Mandarin

Pronunciation

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Hanzi

施 (Pinyin shī (shi1), shǐ (shi3), yí (yi2), yì (yi4), Wade-Giles shih¹, shih³, i², i⁴)

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Compounds

• 檳榔西施 (bīnláng xīshī)

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Middle Chinese

Han character

施 (*shiɛ, shiɛ̀)

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Min Nan

Hanzi

施

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Descendants

• (Hokkien dialect) Tagalog: See

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Vietnamese

Han character

施 (thi, the, thè, thí, thỉ, thị, thia)

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