尸

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

See also: 戶, 户, 戸, 屍, and ㄕ

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TranslingualEdit

Stroke order

Han characterEdit

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

1. Kangxi radical #44, ⼫ (“corpse”).

Derived charactersEdit

• Index:Chinese radical/尸

DescendantsEdit

• ㄕ

ReferencesEdit

• 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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ChineseEdit

Glyph originEdit

Historical forms of the character 尸
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Bamboo and silk script	Large seal script	Small seal script

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 1Edit

simp. and trad.		尸

PronunciationEdit

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shī (shi¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄕ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): si¹

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

DefinitionsEdit

尸

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

Etymology 2Edit

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

KanjiEdit

尸

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. corpse; cadaver

ReadingsEdit

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

NounEdit

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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KoreanEdit

HanjaEdit

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

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VietnameseEdit

Han characterEdit

尸 (thi)

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