泗

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泗 U+6CD7, 泗
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6CD7
← 泖
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 泘 →

Translingual

Han character

泗 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 水田金 (EWC), four-corner 36100, composition ⿰氵四)

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 616, character 17
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17294
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1011, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1587, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+6CD7

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 泗

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 泗
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
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

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *hljids) : semantic 氵 (“water”) + phonetic 四 (OC *hljids).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 泗
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
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 泗
Reading # 1/1
No. 12023
Phonetic
component 		四
Rime
group 		至
Rime
subdivision 		1
Corresponding
MC rime 		四
Old
Chinese 		/*hljids/

Definitions

泗

  1. (literary) nasal mucus
  2. sniffle
  3. Si River (a river in Shandong, China)

Compounds

References

Japanese

Kanji

泗

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

泗 (eum 사 (sa))

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Vietnamese

Han character

泗: Hán Nôm readings: tứa

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