巳

See also 己, and 已

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

巳 (radical 49 己+0, 3 strokes, cangjie input 口山 (RU), four-corner 7771₇)

1. sixth of twelve earthly branches (十二支): snake or serpent (蛇) of Chinese zodiac

Derived characters

• Index:Chinese radical/己
• 包 (Chinese form)
• 导

References

• KangXi: page 326, character 12
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 8744
• Dae Jaweon: page 631, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 984, character 2
• Unihan data for U+5DF3

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Cantonese

Hanzi

巳 (jyutping zi6, Yale ji6)

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Japanese

Kanji

巳 (“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

Readings

• On: し (shi)
• Kun: み (mi)

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Korean

Hanja

巳 (hangeul 사, revised sa, McCune-Reischauer sa)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

巳 (pinyin sì (si4), Wade-Giles ssu⁴)

Compounds

• 巳蛇
• 巳时 (simp.), 巳時 (trad.)

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Vietnamese

Han character

巳 (tị)