尸

See also: 戶, 户, 戸, 屍, ㄕ, and 𡰣

尸 U+5C38, 尸 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5C38 ← 尷 [U+5C37] CJK Unified Ideographs 尹 → [U+5C39]

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

尸 (radical 44, 尸+0, 3 strokes, cangjie input 尸 (S), four-corner 7720₇, composition ⿰丿コ)

1. Kangxi radical #44, ⼫.

Derived characters

• Index:Chinese radical/尸

Descendants

• ㄕ

References

• KangXi: page 299, character 26
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7630
• Dae Jaweon: page 595, character 7
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 963, character 14
• Unihan data for U+5C38

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Chinese

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 尸
Shang	Western Zhou	Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Qin slip script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Characters in the same phonetic series (尸) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
杘	*l̥ʰis
尸	*hli
鳲	*hli
屍	*hli, *hlis
屎	*hliʔ, *hri

Pictogram (象形) - A man with his legs bending, and a side to the front. The picture is variously interpreted as either sitting or lying.

When used as a radical, 尸 is usually derived from a variation of 人 or 亻, as in 尾.

Etymology 1

simp. and trad.		尸

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shī (shi¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄕ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): si¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: shī
    • Zhuyin: ㄕ
    • Wade–Giles: shih¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shy
    • Tongyong Pinyin: shih
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂʐ̩⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: si¹
    • Yale: sī
    • Cantonese Pinyin: si¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: xi¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /siː⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: /ɕiɪ/▼

Rime
Character	尸
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	書 (26)
Final (韻)	脂 (15)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	式之切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɕiɪ/
Pan Wuyun	/ɕi/
Shao Rongfen	/ɕjɪ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɕi/
Li Rong	/ɕi/
Wang Li	/ɕi/
Bernard Karlgren	/ɕi/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	shī

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*l̥̥[ə]j/

  (Zhengzhang): /*hli/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	尸
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	shī
Middle Chinese	‹ syij ›
Old Chinese	/*l̥̥[ə]j/
English	corpse
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	尸
Reading #	1/1
No.	11396
Phonetic component	尸
Rime group	脂
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime
Old Chinese	/*hli/

Definitions

尸

1. a living person who represents the dead person during a rite

Compounds

• 尸位 (shīwèi)
• 尸位病民

• 尸位素餐 (shīwèisùcān)
• 尸位誤國／尸位误国

• 尸素
• 素餐尸位

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 尸 – see 屍 (“corpse; carcass”). (This character, 尸, is the simplified and variant form of 屍.)

Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.

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Japanese

Kanji

尸

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. corpse; cadaver

Readings

• Go-on: し (shi)
• Kan-on: し (shi)
• Kun: かたしろ (katashiro, 尸); しかばね (shikabane, 尸)

Noun

Kanji in this term
尸
しかばね Hyōgaiji
kun’yomi

Kanji in this term
尸
かばね Hyōgaiji
kun’yomi

尸 (hiragana かばね, rōmaji kabane) (alternative reading hiragana しかばね, romaji shikabane)

1. Alternative spelling of 屍 (“corpse; cadaver”)

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Korean

Hanja

尸 • (si) (hangeul 시, revised si, McCune–Reischauer si, Yale si)

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Vietnamese

Han character

尸 (thi)

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