絁

Translingual

Han character

絁 (Kangxi radical 120, 糸+5, 11 strokes, cangjie input 女火人心木 (VFOPD), four-corner 2891₂, composition ⿰糹㐌)

1. rough, indelicate silk

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 920, character 26
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27371
• Dae Jaweon: page 1353, character 8
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3383, character 7
• Unihan data for U+7D41

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		絁

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
他	*l̥ʰaːl
拖	*l̥ʰaːl, *l̥ʰaːls
駞	*l'aːl
池	*l'aːl, *l'al
灺	*ljalʔ
鍦	*ɦljaːl, *hljal, *hljals
虵	*ɦljal, *laːlʔ, *lal
也	*laːlʔ
忚	*hleːl
髢	*l'eːls
杝	*l̥ʰalʔ, *l'alʔ, *lal
肔	*l̥ʰalʔ, *lalʔ
馳	*l'al
阤	*l'alʔ, *hljalʔ
施	*hljal, *hljals
絁	*hljal
葹	*hljal
弛	*hljalʔ
箷	*lal
衪	*lel, *lalʔ
暆	*lel
迆	*lal, *lalʔ
酏	*lal, *lalʔ
匜	*lal, *lalʔ
迤	*lalʔ
扡	*lalʔ
崺	*lalʔ
貤	*lals, *ɦljels, *lels
地	*l'els

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shī (shi¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄕ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): si¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: shī
    • Zhuyin: ㄕ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: shih
    • Wade–Giles: shih¹
    • Yale: shr̄
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shy
    • Palladius: ши (ši)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂʐ̩⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: si¹
    • Yale: sī
    • Cantonese Pinyin: si¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: xi¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /siː⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: sye

Rime
Character	絁
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	書 (26)
Final (韻)	支 (11)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	式支切
Baxter	sye
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɕiᴇ/
Pan Wuyun	/ɕiɛ/
Shao Rongfen	/ɕjɛ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɕiə̆/
Li Rong	/ɕie/
Wang Li	/ɕǐe/
Bernard Karlgren	/ɕie̯/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	shī
Expected Cantonese Reflex	si1

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*hljal/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	絁
Reading #	1/1
No.	14784
Phonetic component	也
Rime group	歌
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	䌳
Old Chinese	/*hljal/
Notes	䌳的俗體

Definitions

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Japanese

Kanji

絁

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. rough, indelicate silk

Readings

• Go-on: し (shi)
• Kan-on: し (shi)
• Kun: あしぎぬ (ashiginu, 絁); つむぎ (tsumugi, 絁); ふとおり (futoori, 絁); ふとぎぬ (futoginu, 絁)

Usage notes

Used in the Nihon Shoki (720 CE) as 借音 (shakuon) kana for ⟨si⟩.

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
絁
あしぎぬ Hyōgaiji
kun’yomi

First attested in the Wamyō Ruijushō (938 CE).

Compound of 悪し (ashi, “crude, rough”) +‎ 絹 (kinu, “silk”). The kinu changes to ginu as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

Noun

絁(あしぎぬ) • (ashiginu) 

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   Synonym: 太絹 (futoginu)

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
絁
ふとおり Hyōgaiji
kun’yomi

Noun

絁(ふとおり) • (futoori) 

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Etymology 3

Kanji in this term
絁
ふとぎぬ Hyōgaiji
kun’yomi

Noun

絁(ふとぎぬ) • (futoginu) 

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