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Translingual

Han character

(radical 147 +4, 11 strokes, cangjie input 戈火月山山 (IFBUU), four-corner 36210, composition)

References


Chinese

trad.
simp.
alt. forms 𤋇

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Bamboo and silk script Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*ɡle, *ɢljils
*ɡril, *kljilʔ
*ŋɡril, *ɡʷren
*ɡljilʔ, *ɡljils, *ɢljils
*ɡljilʔ, *ɡljils, *ɢljils
*li

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ɡljilʔ, *ɡljils, *ɢljils) : phonetic  (OC *ɡle, *ɢljils) + semantic  (see).

Pronunciation



  • Dialectal data
Variety Location
Mandarin Beijing /ʂʐ̩⁵¹/
Harbin /ʂʐ̩⁵³/
Tianjin /sz̩⁵³/
Jinan /ʂʐ̩²¹/
Qingdao /ʂʐ̩⁴²/
Zhengzhou /ʂʐ̩³¹²/
Xi'an /sz̩⁴⁴/
Xining /sz̩²¹³/
Yinchuan /ʂʐ̩¹³/
Lanzhou /ʂʐ̩¹³/
Ürümqi /sz̩²¹³/
Wuhan /sz̩³⁵/
Chengdu /sz̩¹³/
Guiyang /sz̩²¹³/
Kunming /ʂʐ̩²¹²/
Nanjing /sz̩⁴⁴/
Hefei /ʂʐ̩⁵³/
Jin Taiyuan /sz̩⁴⁵/
Pingyao /sz̩³⁵/
Hohhot /sz̩⁵⁵/
Wu Shanghai /zz̩²³/
Suzhou /zz̩ʷ³¹/
Hangzhou /zz̩¹³/
Wenzhou /zz̩²²/
Hui Shexian /sz̩²²/
Tunxi /ɕi²⁴/
Xiang Changsha /ʂʐ̩⁵⁵/
Xiangtan /ʂʐ̩⁵⁵/
Gan Nanchang /sz̩²¹/
Hakka Meixian /sz̩⁵³/
Taoyuan /ʃï⁵⁵/
Cantonese Guangzhou /si²²/
Nanning /si²²/
Hong Kong /si²²/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /si²²/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /sɛi²⁴²/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /si²⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /si³⁵/
Haikou (Min Nan) /si³⁵/
/ti³⁵/
/ti⁵⁵/

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial () (25) (25)
Final () (15) (15)
Tone (調) Rising (X) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () III III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/d͡ʑiɪX/ /d͡ʑiɪH/
Pan
Wuyun
/d͡ʑiX/ /d͡ʑiH/
Shao
Rongfen
/d͡ʑjɪX/ /d͡ʑjɪH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/d͡ʑiX/ /d͡ʑiH/
Li
Rong
/ʑiX/ /ʑiH/
Wang
Li
/ʑiX/ /ʑiH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ʑiX/ /ʑiH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
shì shì
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
shì shì
Middle
Chinese
‹ dzyijX › ‹ dzyijH ›
Old
Chinese
/*ɡijʔ/ /*ɡijʔ-s/
English look, see look, see

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
Reading # 1/3 2/3 3/3
No. 11602 11604 11608
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1 1 1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ɡljilʔ/ /*ɡljils/ /*ɢljils/
Notes

Definitions

  1. to see; to look; to view
  2. to inspect; to examine
  3. to regard; to consider
  4. to visit
  5. view; sight

Compounds


Japanese

Kanji

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. to see; to look; to watch; to view; to observe
  2. to look over; to look on; to assess; to examine; to judge
  3. to look after; to keep an eye on; to take care of
  4. to view (e.g. flowers, movie)
  5. (usu. after the -te form of a verb) to try

Readings

Compounds


Korean

Hanja

(si) (hangeul )

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Vietnamese

Han character

(thị)

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Compounds