賽

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See also: 赛
賽 U+8CFD, 賽
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8CFD
← 購
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 賾 →

Translingual

Han character

賽 (Kangxi radical 154, 貝+10, 17 strokes, cangjie input 十廿金金 (JTCC), four-corner 30806, composition ⿱𡨄貝)

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1211, character 22
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 36886
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1677, character 17
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3655, character 10
  • Unihan data for U+8CFD

Chinese

trad. 賽
simp. 赛
2nd round simp. ⿱宀覀
alternative forms 𡧳 former Singaporean simp. & 1981 second round simp.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 賽
Warring States Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Chu slip and silk script Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
Characters in the same phonetic series (塞) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
賽 *slɯːɡs
塞 *slɯːɡs, *slɯːɡ
簺 *slɯːɡs
僿 *hljɯɡs
寨 *zraːds, *slɯːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *slɯːɡs) : abbreviated phonetic 塞 (OC *slɯːɡs, *slɯːɡ) + semantic 貝 (“shell”).

Etymology

This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.
Particularly: “Was this common in Classical Chinese, and if not, where did it come from? The apparent rarity in Sino-Xenic is a bit puzzling if it was common since OC.”

Pronunciation

Note:
  • sài - literary;
  • sèr/sè - vernacular.
  • Dialectal data
Variety Location 賽
Mandarin Beijing /sai⁵¹/
Harbin /sai⁵³/
Tianjin /sai⁵³/
Jinan /sɛ²¹/
Qingdao /sɛ⁴²/
Zhengzhou /sai³¹²/
Xi'an /sai⁴⁴/
Xining /sɛ²¹³/
Yinchuan /sɛ¹³/
Lanzhou /sɛ¹³/
Ürümqi /sai²¹³/
Wuhan /sai³⁵/
Chengdu /sai¹³/
Guiyang /sai²¹³/
Kunming /sæ²¹²/
Nanjing /sae⁴⁴/
Hefei /se̞⁵³/
Jin Taiyuan /sai⁴⁵/
Pingyao /sæ³⁵/
Hohhot /sɛ⁵⁵/
Wu Shanghai /se³⁵/
Suzhou /se̞⁵¹³/
Hangzhou /se̞⁴⁴⁵/
Wenzhou /se⁴²/
Hui Shexian /sɛ³²⁴/
Tunxi /sə⁴²/
Xiang Changsha /sai⁵⁵/
Xiangtan /sai⁵⁵/
Gan Nanchang /sai⁴⁵/
Hakka Meixian /soi⁵³/
Taoyuan /soi⁵⁵/
Cantonese Guangzhou /t͡sʰɔi³³/
Nanning /sɔi³³/
Hong Kong /t͡sʰɔi³³/
Min Xiamen (Hokkien) /sai²¹/
Fuzhou (Eastern Min) /suɔi²¹²/
Jian'ou (Northern Min) /so³³/
Shantou (Teochew) /sai²¹³/
Haikou (Hainanese) /sai³⁵/
Rime
Character 賽
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 心 (16)
Final (韻) 咍 (41)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 先代切
Baxter sojH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/sʌiH/
Pan
Wuyun 		/səiH/
Shao
Rongfen 		/sɒiH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/səjH/
Li
Rong 		/sᴀiH/
Wang
Li 		/sɒiH/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/sɑ̆iH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		sài
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		soi3
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 賽
Reading # 1/1
No. 10957
Phonetic
component 		塞
Rime
group 		代
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		賽
Old
Chinese 		/*slɯːɡs/

Definitions

賽

  1. to compete; to contend
  2. competition; contest; race
    決賽／决赛  ―  juésài  ―  final

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

賽

(Hyōgai kanji)

  1. dice
  2. temple visit

Readings

  • Go-on: さい (sai)
  • Kan-on: さい (sai)
  • Kun: しあい (shiai)、きそう (kisō)、むくいまつる (mukuimatsuru)

Korean

Hanja

賽 (eumhun 굿할 새 (guthal sae))

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Vietnamese

Han character

賽: Hán Nôm readings: tái, trại, tày, tầy, táy

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