祠

Translingual

Han character

祠 (Kangxi radical 113, 示+5, 10 strokes, cangjie input 戈火尸一口 (IFSMR), four-corner 3722₀, composition ⿰礻司)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 842, character 6
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 24676
• Dae Jaweon: page 1262, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2395, character 1
• Unihan data for U+7960

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		祠

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
司	*slɯ
伺	*slɯ, *slɯs
覗	*slɯ, *slɯs
笥	*slɯ, *slɯs
詞	*ljɯ
祠	*ljɯ
柌	*ljɯ
嗣	*ljɯs
孠	*ljɯs
飼	*ljɯs
呞	*hljɯ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ljɯ) and ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : semantic 礻 (“divinity”) + phonetic 司 (OC *slɯ).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): cí (ci²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄘˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ci⁴
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): sîr / sû / sî

  (Teochew, Peng'im): se⁵

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: cí
    • Zhuyin: ㄘˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: cíh
    • Wade–Giles: tzʻŭ²
    • Yale: tsź
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tsyr
    • Palladius: цы (cy)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰz̩³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: ci⁴
    • Yale: chìh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsi⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: qi⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰiː²¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sîr
    • Tâi-lô: sîr
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /sɯ²⁴/
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sû
    • Tâi-lô: sû
    • Phofsit Daibuun: suu
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /su²³/
    • IPA (Taipei, Xiamen): /su²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /su¹³/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sî
    • Tâi-lô: sî
    • Phofsit Daibuun: sii
    • IPA (Xiamen): /si²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /si¹³/

Note:

• sîr/sû - literary;
• sî - vernacular.

• (Teochew)
  • Peng'im: se⁵
  • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: sṳ̂
  • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɯ⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: zi

Rime
Character	祠
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	邪 (17)
Final (韻)	之 (19)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	似兹切
Baxter	zi
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/zɨ/
Pan Wuyun	/zɨ/
Shao Rongfen	/zie/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/zɨ/
Li Rong	/ziə/
Wang Li	/zĭə/
Bernard Karlgren	/zi/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	sí
Expected Cantonese Reflex	ci4

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*sə.lə/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ljɯ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	祠
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	cí
Middle Chinese	‹ zi ›
Old Chinese	/*sə.lə/
English	sacrifice
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	祠
Reading #	1/1
No.	11959
Phonetic component	司
Rime group	之
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	詞
Old Chinese	/*ljɯ/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 祠

1. ancestral temple
2. (literary) to offer sacrifice
3. (literary) spring sacrifice

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Japanese

Kanji

祠

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: じ (ji)
• Kan-on: し (shi)
• Kun: ほこら (hokora, 祠); まつる (matsuru, 祠る)

Alternative forms

Kanji in this term
祠
ほこら Hyōgaiji
kun’yomi

• 叢祠

Noun

祠(ほこら) • (hokora) 

1. a small shrine

Synonyms

• 神庫

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Korean

Hanja

祠 • (sa) (hangeul 사, revised sa, McCune–Reischauer sa, Yale sa)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 祠 (từ, thờ, tờ)

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