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嘶

嘶

嘶 U+5636, 嘶
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5636
← 嘵
[U+5635] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 嘷 →
[U+5637]

Translingual

Han character

嘶 (radical 30 口+12, 15 strokes, cangjie input 口廿金中 (RTCL), four-corner 62021, composition ⿰口斯)

  1. neighing of a horse
  2. gravelly voiced, husky voiced
  3. (Cantonese) to hiccough

References

  • KangXi: page 207, character 14
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 4260
  • Dae Jaweon: page 430, character 12
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 681, character 6
  • Unihan data for U+5636

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 嘶

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (斯) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
嘶 *seː
撕 *seː, *se
斯 *se
廝 *se
蟴 *se
燍 *se
鐁 *se
凘 *se
澌 *ses

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 嘶
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 心 (16)
Final (韻) 齊 (39)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) IV
Fanqie 先稽切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /sei/
Pan
Wuyun		 /sei/
Shao
Rongfen		 /sɛi/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /sɛj/
Li
Rong		 /sei/
Wang
Li		 /siei/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /siei/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 xī
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 嘶
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 sī
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ sej ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[s]ˤe/
English shriek

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 嘶
Reading # 1/1
No. 11993
Phonetic
component		 斯
Rime
group		 支
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 西
Old
Chinese		 /*seː/

Definitions

嘶

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Japanese

Kanji

嘶

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

嘶 • ‎(si) (hangeul 시, revised si, McCune-Reischauer si)

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Vietnamese

Han character

嘶 (tê)

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