泗

Translingual

Han character

泗 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 水田金 (EWC), four-corner 3610₀, composition ⿰氵四)

1. mucous
2. nasal flow
3. sniffle
4. A river in Shandong

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 616, character 17
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17294
• Dae Jaweon: page 1011, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1587, character 3
• Unihan data for U+6CD7

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		泗

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 泗
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Characters in the same phonetic series (四) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
訵	*l̥ʰids
四	*hljids
泗	*hljids
駟	*hljids
柶	*hljids
牭	*hljids
呬	*hrids

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *hljids) : semantic 氵 (“water”) + phonetic 四 (OC *hljids).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): sì (si⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄙˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): si³ / sei³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: sì
    • Zhuyin: ㄙˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: sìh
    • Wade–Giles: ssŭ⁴
    • Yale: sz̀
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: syh
    • Palladius: сы (sy)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sz̩⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: si³ / sei³
    • Yale: si / sei
    • Cantonese Pinyin: si³ / sei³
    • Guangdong Romanization: xi³ / séi³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /siː³³/, /sei̯³³/

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• Middle Chinese: sijH

Rime
Character	泗
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	心 (16)
Final (韻)	脂 (15)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	息利切
Baxter	sijH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/siɪH/
Pan Wuyun	/siH/
Shao Rongfen	/sjɪH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/siH/
Li Rong	/siH/
Wang Li	/siH/
Bernard Karlgren	/siH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	sì
Expected Cantonese Reflex	si3

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*hljids/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	泗
Reading #	1/1
No.	12023
Phonetic component	四
Rime group	至
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	四
Old Chinese	/*hljids/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 泗

1. (literary) nasal mucus
2. Si River (a river in Shandong, China)

References

• “泗”, 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

泗

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: し (shi)
• Kan-on: し (shi)
• Kun: なみだ (namida); はなじる (hanajiru)

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Korean

Hanja

泗 (eum 사 (sa))

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Vietnamese

Han character

泗: Hán Nôm readings: tứa

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