栖

See also: 棲

栖 U+6816, 栖 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6816 ← 栕 [U+6815] CJK Unified Ideographs 栗 → [U+6817]

Translingual

Han character

栖 (Kangxi radical 75, 木+6, 10 strokes, Cangjie input 木一金田 (DMCW), four-corner 4196₀, composition ⿰木西)

Derived characters

• 𥱛

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 522, character 3
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14693
• Dae Jaweon: page 910, character 11
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1196, character 3
• Unihan data for U+6816

Chinese

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
粞	*sɯːl, *sɯːl
洒	*sraːls, *sɯːlʔ
西	*sɯːl
卤	*sɯːl
卥	*sɯːl
栖	*sɯːl, *sɯːls
茜	*sʰɯːns
哂	*hjɯnʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *sɯːl, *sɯːls): semantic 木 (“tree”) + phonetic 西 (OC *sɯːl).

Etymology 1

See 西 (OC *s-nˤər) (Baxter & Sagart, 2014) for etymology.

Definitions

For pronunciation and definitions of 栖 – see 棲 (“to perch; to roost; to rest; to stay; to dwell”). (This character is the simplified and variant traditional form of 棲).

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

Etymology 2

trad.		栖/棲*
simp.		栖

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xī (xi¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): sai¹

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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: sai¹
    • Yale: sāi
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sai¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: sei¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɐi̯⁵⁵/

Definitions

栖

1. only used in 栖栖 (xīxī)

Japanese

Kanji

栖

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

1. nest

Readings

• Go-on: さい (sai)
• Kan-on: せい (sei)
• Kun: すむ (sumu, 栖む)、すみか (sumika, 栖)、す (su, 栖)
• Nanori: す (su)、すみ (sumi)

Definitions

Kanji in this term
栖
す Jinmeiyō
kun'yomi

For pronunciation and definitions of 栖 – see the following entry.

【巣す】4 [noun] 巣, 栖, 窼: nest, hive, den Alternative spelling 窼

(This term, 栖, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

References

• “^▲栖”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[1] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2026

Korean

Hanja

栖 • (seo) (hangeul 서, revised seo, McCune–Reischauer sŏ, Yale se)

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