犀

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): phonetic 尾 + semantic 牛 (“ox”)

Han character

犀 (radical 93 牛+8, 12 strokes, cangjie input 尸水竹手 (SEHQ), four-corner 7725₁)

1. rhinoceros
2. sharp, hard, well-tempered (as metal)

Derived characters

• 遲

References

• KangXi: page 701, character 14
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 20045
• Dae Jaweon: page 1114, character 23
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1815, character 1
• Unihan data for U+7280

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Cantonese

Hanzi

犀 (Yale sai1)

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Japanese

Noun

犀 (hiragana さい, katakana サイ, romaji sai)

1. サイ: rhinoceros

Kanji

犀

Readings

• On: さい (sai), せい (sei)
• Kun: かたい (katai), するどい (surudoi)

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Korean

Hanja

犀 (hangeul 서, revised seo, McCune-Reischauer sŏ, Yale se)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

犀 (pinyin xī (xi1), Wade-Giles hsi¹)

Compounds

• 犀牛
• 犀利
• 木犀

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Vietnamese

Han character

犀 (tê, tây)