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Chinese
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to make; to cause; to enable to make; to cause; to enable; to use; to employ; messenger |
‑ist, ‑er (person); person (who does something)
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simp. and trad.
(使者)
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使
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者
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Pronunciation
| Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
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| Character
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使
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者
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| Reading #
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2/2
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1/1
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Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
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shǐ
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zhě
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Middle
Chinese
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‹ sriH ›
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‹ tsyæX ›
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Old
Chinese
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/*s-rəʔ-s/
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/*tAʔ/
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| English
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envoy
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(nominalizing particle)
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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.
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| Zhengzhang system (2003)
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| Character
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使
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者
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| Reading #
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2/2
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1/1
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| No.
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11491
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16960
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Phonetic
component
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史
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者
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Rime
group
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之
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魚
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Rime
subdivision
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0
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0
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Corresponding
MC rime
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𩢲
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者
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Old
Chinese
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/*srɯs/
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/*tjaːʔ/
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| Notes
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說文古旅聲。甲金文象足印小坎積水，
爲瀦初文，用詹鄞鑫說
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Noun
使者
- herald; messenger; emissary; envoy (Classifier: 位)
- 派使者 ― pài shǐzhě ― to dispatch an envoy
Derived terms
Descendants
Japanese
| Alternative spelling
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| 使者 (kyūjitai)
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Etymology
From Middle Chinese 使者 (MC sriH tsyaeX).
Pronunciation
Noun
使者 • (shisha)
- herald, messenger
- emissary, envoy
Synonyms
References
- ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
- ^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN
- ^ Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新明解国語辞典 [Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten] (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
Korean
Noun
使者 • (saja) (hangeul 사자)
- hanja form? of 사자 (“envoy; emissary; messenger”)
Vietnamese
Noun
使者
- chữ Hán form of sứ giả (“envoy; emissary”).