悉

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悉 U+6089, 悉
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6089
← 悈
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 悊 →

Translingual

Han character

悉 (Kangxi radical 61, 心+7, 11 strokes, cangjie input 竹木心 (HDP), four-corner 20339, composition ⿱釆心)

Derived characters

Additional Derived Characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 386, character 32
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 10635
  • Dae Jaweon: page 719, character 5
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2301, character 7
  • Unihan data for U+6089

Chinese

trad. 悉
simp. # 悉
alternative forms 怸
𢚊
𢝕

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 悉
Warring States Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Qin slip script Ancient script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (悉) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
僁 *siːd, *sid
悉 *sid
蟋 *sid, *srid
窸 *sid

Ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意): 釆 (“to distinguish”) + 心 (“heart”) – detailed.

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *sjəj (“to know; to understand”) (STEDT). Compare with Tibetan ཤེས་པ (shes pa, “to understand; to know”), Burmese သိ (si., “to know”), Mizo thei (“can; to be able”), Chepang चीःसा (ciʔ‑, “to know; to understand”).

Pronunciation

Note:
  • sit - literary;
  • siak/sek - vernacular.
Rime
Character 悉
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 心 (16)
Final (韻) 質 (48)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 息七切
Baxter sit
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/siɪt̚/
Pan
Wuyun 		/sit̚/
Shao
Rongfen 		/sjet̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/sit̚/
Li
Rong 		/siĕt̚/
Wang
Li 		/sĭĕt̚/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/si̯ĕt̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		xi
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		sat1
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 悉
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		xī
Middle
Chinese 		‹ sit ›
Old
Chinese 		/*i/
English completely

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 悉
Reading # 1/1
No. 13339
Phonetic
component 		悉
Rime
group 		質
Rime
subdivision 		1
Corresponding
MC rime 		悉
Old
Chinese 		/*sid/

Definitions

悉

  1. to know; to learn; to be informed of
    得悉  ―  déxī  ―  to know
    熟悉  ―  shúxī  ―  to know clearly
  2. (archaic) all; fully; entirely
  3. Used in transcription.
    悉尼  ―  Xīní  ―  Sydney

Compounds

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (悉):
  • → Japanese: 悉(しつ) (shitsu)
  • → Korean: 실(悉) (sil)
  • → Vietnamese: tất (悉)

References

Japanese

Kanji

悉

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

  1. to exhaust; to do exhaustively
  2. to know; to learn
  3. in detail; diligently
  4. all; every; entirely

Readings

  • Kan-on: しつ (shitsu)
  • Kun: つくす (tsukusu, 悉す)、ことごとく (kotogotoku, 悉く)

Korean

Hanja

悉 • (sil) (hangeul 실, revised sil, McCune–Reischauer sil, Yale sil)

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Vietnamese

Han character

悉: Hán Nôm readings: tạt, dứt, tất, tắt

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