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Translingual
Han character
棲 (Kangxi radical 75, 木 +8, 12 strokes, cangjie input 木十中女 (DJLV ), four-corner 45944 , composition ⿰木 妻 )
References
Kangxi Dictionary: page 534 , character 17
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14980
Dae Jaweon: page 922, character 13
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1229, character 6
Unihan data for U+68F2
Chinese
Glyph origin
Old Chinese
妻
*sʰiːl, *sʰiːls
萋
*sʰiːl
淒
*sʰiːl
凄
*sʰiːl
悽
*sʰiːl
鶈
*sʰiːl
郪
*sʰiːl, *sʰil
緀
*sʰiːl, *sʰiːlʔ
霋
*sʰiːl
棲
*siːl
Before the Warring States Period , written as '西 '. Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声 , OC *siːl ): semantic 木 ( “ tree ” ) + phonetic 妻 ( OC *sʰiːl, *sʰiːls ) .
Etymology 1
See 西 (OC *s-nˤər ) (Baxter & Sagart, 2014 ) for etymology.
Pronunciation
Note :
chhe - literary;
soe - vernacular.
Baxter –Sagart system 1.1 (2014 )
Character
棲
Reading #
1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)
qī
Middle Chinese
‹ sej ›
Old Chinese
/*s-nˁər/
English
bird"s nest
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:
* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * 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
棲
Reading #
1/1
No.
9924
Phonetic component
妻
Rime group
脂
Rime subdivision
1
Corresponding MC rime
西
Old Chinese
/*siːl/
Definitions
棲
to perch
to roost
to stay
Compounds
Etymology 2
For pronunciation and definitions of 棲 – see 栖 (“used in 栖栖 ”). (This character is a variant traditional form of 栖 ).
Japanese
Kanji
棲
(Jinmeiyō kanji )
(Of humans and other animals ) residing (somewhere), living (someplace); inhabiting a nest , den , burrow , etc.
Readings
Compounds
Korean
Hanja
棲 (eumhun 깃 들일 서 ( gitdeuril seo ) )
hanja form? of 서 ( “ roost ” )
Compounds
Vietnamese
Han character
棲 : Hán Nôm readings: thê
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