Wiktionary

什

See also: 甚
什 U+4EC0, 什
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-4EC0
← 亿
[U+4EBF] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 仁 →
[U+4EC1]
什 U+F9FD, 什
CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-F9FD
← 識
[U+F9FC] 		CJK Compatibility Ideographs 茶 →
[U+F9FE]

Translingual edit

Stroke order
 
Stroke order
 

Han character edit

什 (Kangxi radical 9, 人+2, 4 strokes, cangjie input 人十 (OJ), four-corner 24200, composition ⿰亻十)

References edit

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 91, character 6
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 348
  • Dae Jaweon: page 192, character 6
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 108, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+4EC0

Chinese edit

Glyph origin edit

Historical forms of the character 什
Warring States Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Qin slip script Small seal script
   
Small seal script
 

s05782

Transcribed ancient scripts
 

L38517

References:

Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation),
which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including:

  • Shuowen Jiezi (small seal),
  • Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions),
  • Liushutong (Liushutong characters) and
  • Yinxu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).
Characters in the same phonetic series (十) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
針 *kjum, *kjums
汁 *kjub
卙 *kʰljub
十 *ɡjub
什 *ɡjub

Etymology 1 edit

trad. 什/甚*
simp. 什

Pronunciation edit

Definitions edit

什

  1. Only used in 什麼／什么 (shénme).

Compounds edit

Etymology 2 edit

simp. and trad.
 什

Pronunciation edit

Note:
  • sap6 - literary;
  • zaap6 - variant (“miscellaneous” or alternative form of 雜).
Rime
Character 什
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 常 (25)
Final (韻) 侵 (141)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 是執切
Baxter dzyip
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/d͡ʑiɪp̚/
Pan
Wuyun 		/d͡ʑip̚/
Shao
Rongfen 		/d͡ʑjep̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/d͡ʑip̚/
Li
Rong 		/ʑiəp̚/
Wang
Li 		/ʑĭĕp̚/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/ʑi̯əp̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		shí
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		sap6
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 什
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		shí
Middle
Chinese 		‹ dzyip ›
Old
Chinese 		/*t.[ɡ]əp/
English troop of ten men

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] 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 什
Reading # 1/1
No. 11453
Phonetic
component 		十
Rime
group 		緝
Rime
subdivision 		3
Corresponding
MC rime 		十
Old
Chinese 		/*ɡjub/

Definitions edit

什

  1. † (census) ten families
  2. † troop of ten men
  3. † set of ten poems
  4. † Alternative form of 十 (shí, “ten”), usually used in fractions or multiples.
  5. miscellaneous; assorted
  6. Alternative form of 雜／杂 (zá)
  7. a surname

Compounds edit

Etymology 3 edit

simp. and trad.
 什

Pronunciation edit

Definitions edit

什

  1. Only used in 通什.

Etymology 4 edit

simp. and trad.
 什

Pronunciation edit

Note: siahⁿ/sahⁿ - at the end of a phrase.

Definitions edit

什

  1. (Hokkien) Alternative form of 啥 (“what”)

Japanese edit

Kanji edit

什

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. (financial, obsolete) ten

Readings edit

Korean edit

Hanja edit

什 • (sip, jip) (hangeul 십, 집, revised sip, jip, McCune–Reischauer sip, chip)

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Vietnamese edit

Han character edit

什: Hán Nôm readings: thập, lặt, thậm

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References edit

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