駟

See also: 驷

駟 U+99DF, 駟 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-99DF ← 駞 [U+99DE] CJK Unified Ideographs 駠 → [U+99E0]

Translingual

Han character

駟 (Kangxi radical 187, 馬+5, 15 strokes, cangjie input 尸火田金 (SFWC), four-corner 7630₀, composition ⿰馬四)

1. team of four horses

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1437, character 6
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 44683
• Dae Jaweon: page 1961, character 16
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4547, character 11
• Unihan data for U+99DF

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Chinese

trad.		駟
simp.		驷

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 駟
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 (四) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

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

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): sì (si⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄙˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): si³
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): sù

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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
    • Yale: si
    • Cantonese Pinyin: si³
    • Guangdong Romanization: xi³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /siː³³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sù
    • Tâi-lô: sù
    • Phofsit Daibuun: sux
    • IPA (Xiamen): /su²¹/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /su⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /su²¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /su¹¹/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /su²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: sijH

Rime
Character	駟
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

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*s.li[j]-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*hljids/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	駟
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	sì
Middle Chinese	‹ sijH ›
Old Chinese	/*s.li[j]-s/
English	team of four horses
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	駟
Reading #	1/1
No.	12024
Phonetic component	四
Rime group	至
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	四
Old Chinese	/*hljids/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 駟

1. a vehicle drawn by four horses
2. a horse
3. to drive; to ride
4. (archaic) Classifier for vehicles drawn by four horses.
5. (archaic) Classifier for horses.
6. a surname

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Japanese

Kanji

駟

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): し (shi)

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Korean

Hanja

駟 (eum 사 (sa))

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Vietnamese

Han character

駟: Hán Nôm readings: tứ

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References

• Nom Foundation