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]

⼫ U+2F2B, ⼫ KANGXI RADICAL CORPSE ← ⼪ [U+2F2A] Kangxi Radicals ⼬ → [U+2F2C]

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 (first edition): 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)
Bronze inscriptions	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

• 三尸
• 三尸神
• 伏尸
• 伏尸流血
• 尸位 (shīwèi)
• 尸位病民
• 尸位素餐 (shīwèisùcān)
• 尸位誤國／尸位误国
• 尸利
• 尸利

• 尸居餘氣／尸居余气
• 尸居龍見／尸居龙见
• 尸祝
• 尸祝代庖
• 尸祿素餐／尸禄素餐 (shīlùsùcān)
• 尸素 (shīsù)
• 尸解
• 尸諫／尸谏
• 尸陀林
• 尸饔

• 尸鳩／尸鸠
• 尸鳩之仁／尸鸠之仁
• 尸鳩之平／尸鸠之平
• 懷寵尸位／怀宠尸位
• 批尸
• 撫尸慟哭／抚尸恸哭
• 流血浮尸
• 祭尸
• 素餐尸位
• 輿尸／舆尸

Etymology 2

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

Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China, Malaysia 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(かばね) • (kabane)  (alternative reading hiragana しかばね, rōmaji shikabane)

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

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Korean

Hanja

尸 (eum 시 (si))

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Old Korean

Etymology 1

The phonogram is thought to follow the Old Chinese pronunciation of the character, which began with a liquid, rather than the Middle Chinese pronunciation, which began with a sibilant.

Phonogram

尸 (*-l)

1. A consonantal phonogram denoting coda consonant *-l

See also

• 肹 (*-r)
• 乙 (*-r)

Etymology 2

Suffix

尸 (*-l, *-lq)

1. An irrealis/prospective verbal gerund-marking suffix, used both to make verbal nouns and for adnominal functions.

Descendants

• Middle Korean: ㅭ (lq, verbal irrealis particle, generally adnominal)
  • Korean: ㄹ (l, verbal irrealis adnominal suffix)

See also

• 隱 (*-n, realis gerund)

Etymology 3

Particle

尸 (*-lq, *-ls)

1. Genitive case marker, chiefly for honored animate nouns

Usage notes

There is a strong argument that 尸 represents an allomorphic variant of the well-known genitive particle 叱 (*-s) rather than an independent genitive case marker.

References

• 장윤희 (Jang Yun-hui) (2011) , “Seokdok gugyeol 'si'-ui munje haegyeor-eul wihayeo [For a solution to the problem of genitive 尸 in interpretive gugyeol]”, in Gugyeol Yeon'gu, volume 27, pages 117–144
• Nam Pung-hyun (2012) , “Old Korean”, in The Languages of Japan and Korea, Routledge, →ISBN, pages 41–72
• 이병기 (Yi Byeong-gi) (2019) , “Godae Gugeo dongmyeongsa eomi-ui munbeopjeok teukjing-gwa gwaje [The grammatical features of Old Korean verbal nominalizers and further tasks for research]”, in Gugyeol Yeon'gu, volume 43, DOI:10.17001/kugyol.2019..43.003, pages 89–125

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Vietnamese

Han character

尸: Hán Nôm readings: thi

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