私己

Chinese

		personal; private; selfish	6th heavenly stem; self
simp. and trad. (私己)		私	己

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): sījǐ

  (Zhuyin): ㄙ ㄐㄧˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): si¹ gei²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: sījǐ
    • Zhuyin: ㄙ ㄐㄧˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: sihjǐ
    • Wade–Giles: ssŭ¹-chi³
    • Yale: sz̄-jǐ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: syjii
    • Palladius: сыцзи (syczi)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sz̩⁵⁵ t͡ɕi²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: si¹ gei²
    • Yale: sī géi
    • Cantonese Pinyin: si¹ gei²
    • Guangdong Romanization: xi¹ géi²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /siː⁵⁵ kei̯³⁵/

Noun

私己

1. (Cantonese) private money; personal money

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 私房錢 (“secret stash of money”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		私房錢, 私房, 私蓄
Mandarin	Beijing	私房錢, 私房, 體己錢, 體己
	Taiwan	私房錢, 私房
	Chengdu	私房
Cantonese	Guangzhou	私己
	Hong Kong	私己錢, 私己
Hakka	Meixian	私胲
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	私胲, 私伽錢
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	私胲, 私伽
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	私胲, 私伽錢
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	私伽, 私胲
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	私胲, 私伽錢
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	私伽, 私伽錢
Jin	Taiyuan	私房錢
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	私家
Southern Min	Xiamen	私奇錢, 私奇
	Quanzhou	私奇錢, 私奇
	Zhangzhou	私奇錢, 私奇
	Taipei	私奇
	New Taipei (Sanxia)	私奇
	Kaohsiung	私奇
	Yilan	私奇
	Changhua (Lukang)	私奇
	Taichung	私奇
	Tainan	私奇
	Hsinchu	私奇
	Kinmen	私奇錢
	Penghu (Magong)	私奇錢
	Manila (Hokkien)	私奇錢
	Shantou	私奇錢
Wu	Shanghai	私房鈿, 私房

Adjective

私己

1. (Cantonese, referring to money) private; personal

Synonyms

• 私房 (sīfáng)

Derived terms

• 私己錢／私己钱

 

Adverb

私己

1. (literary) in secret; in private