賜

See also: 赐

Translingual

Han character

賜 (Kangxi radical 154, 貝+8, 15 strokes, cangjie input 月金日心竹 (BCAPH), four-corner 6682₇, composition ⿰貝易)

Derived characters

• 儩, 瀃(𣽷), 𧀩

Related characters

• 赐 (Simplified Chinese)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1209, character 15
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 36809
• Dae Jaweon: page 1674, character 5
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3648, character 2
• Unihan data for U+8CDC

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Chinese

trad.		賜
simp.		赐

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 賜
Western Zhou	Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions	Chu slip and silk script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

	Old Chinese
賜	*sleːɡs
儩	*sleɡs
舓	*ɦljeʔ
易	*leːɡs, *leɡ
敡	*leɡs
鬄	*sljeɡ
睗	*hljeɡ
晹	*hljeɡ
痬	*leɡ
蜴	*leɡ
埸	*leɡ
逷	*l̥ʰeːɡ
剔	*l̥ʰeːɡ
踢	*tʰeːɡ
惕	*l̥ʰeːɡ
錫	*sleːɡ
裼	*sleːɡ
緆	*sleːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *sleːɡs) : semantic 貝 (“shell, money”) + phonetic 易 (OC *leːɡs, *leɡ).

Etymology

From *s- (extrovert/causative) + 易 (OC *leɡ, “to change”) + *-s (Schuessler, 2007).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): cì, sì

  (Zhuyin): ㄘˋ, ㄙˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ci³
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): su
• Northern Min (KCR): su̿
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): sìr / sù

  (Teochew, Peng'im): se³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Mainland)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: cì
    • Zhuyin: ㄘˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: cìh
    • Wade–Giles: tzʻŭ⁴
    • Yale: tsz̀
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tsyh
    • Palladius: цы (cy)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰz̩⁵¹/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Taiwan)⁺
    • 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: ci³
    • Yale: chi
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsi³
    • Guangdong Romanization: qi³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰiː³³/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: su
    • Hakka Romanization System: su
    • Hagfa Pinyim: su⁴
    • Sinological IPA: /su⁵⁵/
• Northern Min
  • (Jian'ou)
    • Kienning Colloquial Romanized: su̿
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /su³³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sìr
    • Tâi-lô: sìr
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /sɯ⁴¹/
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sù
    • Tâi-lô: sù
    • Phofsit Daibuun: sux
    • IPA (Taipei): /su¹¹/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung, Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /su²¹/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: se³
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: sṳ̀
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɯ²¹³/

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• Dialectal data

Variety	Location	edit 賜
Mandarin	Beijing	/t͡sʰz̩⁵³/
	Harbin	/sz̩⁵³/
	Tianjin	/t͡sʰz̩⁵³/
	Jinan	/sz̩²¹/
	Qingdao	/sz̩⁴²/
	Zhengzhou	/sz̩³¹²/
	Xi'an	/sz̩²⁴/
	Xining	/t͡sʰz̩²¹³/
	Yinchuan	/t͡sʰz̩¹³/
	Lanzhou	/sz̩¹³/ /t͡sʰz̩¹³/
	Ürümqi	/t͡sʰz̩²¹³/
	Wuhan	/t͡sʰz̩³⁵/
	Chengdu	/t͡sʰz̩¹³/
	Guiyang	/t͡sʰz̩²¹³/
	Kunming	/t͡sʰz̩²¹²/
	Nanjing	/t͡sʰz̩⁴⁴/
	Hefei	/t͡sʰz̩⁵³/
Jin	Taiyuan	/sz̩¹¹/
	Pingyao	/t͡sʰz̩³⁵/
	Hohhot	/t͡sʰz̩⁵⁵/
Wu	Shanghai	/sz̩³⁵/
	Suzhou	/sz̩⁵¹³/
	Hangzhou	/sz̩⁴⁴⁵/
	Wenzhou	/sz̩⁴²/
Hui	Shexian	/t͡sʰz̩³²⁴/
	Tunxi	/t͡sʰz̩⁴²/
Xiang	Changsha	/t͡sʰz̩⁵⁵/
	Xiangtan	/t͡sʰz̩⁵⁵/
Gan	Nanchang
Hakka	Meixian	/sz̩⁵³/
	Taoyuan
Cantonese	Guangzhou	/t͡sʰi³³/
	Nanning	/t͡sʰz̩³³/
	Hong Kong	/t͡sʰi³³/
Min	Xiamen (Hokkien)	/su²¹/
	Fuzhou (Eastern Min)	/søy²¹²/
	Jian'ou (Northern Min)	/su³³/
	Shantou (Teochew)	/sɯ²¹³/
	Haikou (Hainanese)	/si³⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: sjeH

Rime
Character	賜
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	心 (16)
Final (韻)	支 (11)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	斯義切
Baxter	sjeH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/siᴇH/
Pan Wuyun	/siɛH/
Shao Rongfen	/sjɛH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/siə̆H/
Li Rong	/sieH/
Wang Li	/sǐeH/
Bernard Karlgren	/sie̯H/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	sì
Expected Cantonese Reflex	si3

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*s-lek-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*sleːɡs/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	賜
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	cì
Middle Chinese	‹ sjeH ›
Old Chinese	/*s-lek-s/
English	give
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	賜
Reading #	1/1
No.	15026
Phonetic component	易
Rime group	賜
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	賜
Old Chinese	/*sleːɡs/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 賜

1. to give from superior to inferior; to give as a favor; to bestow
2. a surname

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Japanese

Kanji

賜

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. to give, to bestow
2. to be given, to be honored with
3. gift, boon, results

Readings

• Go-on: し (shi, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: し (shi, Jōyō)
• Kun: たまわる (tamawaru, 賜る, Jōyō); たまう (tamau, 賜う); たまもの (tamamono, 賜)

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 賜 (tứ)

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