尸素

Chinese

		corpse	plain; element
simp. and trad. (尸素)		尸	素

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shīsù

  (Zhuyin): ㄕ ㄙㄨˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): si¹ sou³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: shīsù
    • Zhuyin: ㄕ ㄙㄨˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: shihsù
    • Wade–Giles: shih¹-su⁴
    • Yale: shr̄-sù
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shysuh
    • Palladius: шису (šisu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂʐ̩⁵⁵ su⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: si¹ sou³
    • Yale: sī sou
    • Cantonese Pinyin: si¹ sou³
    • Guangdong Romanization: xi¹ sou³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /siː⁵⁵ sou̯³³/

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• Middle Chinese: syij suH

Rime
Character	尸	素
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	書 (26)	心 (16)
Final (韻)	脂 (15)	模 (23)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	I
Fanqie	式之切	桑故切
Baxter	syij	suH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɕiɪ/	/suoH/
Pan Wuyun	/ɕi/	/suoH/
Shao Rongfen	/ɕjɪ/	/soH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɕi/	/sɔH/
Li Rong	/ɕi/	/soH/
Wang Li	/ɕi/	/suH/
Bernard Karlgren	/ɕi/	/suoH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	shī	sù
Expected Cantonese Reflex	si1	sou3

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*l̥̥[ə]j  [s]ˤak-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*hli  saːs/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	尸	素
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	shī	sù
Middle Chinese	‹ syij ›	‹ suH ›
Old Chinese	/*l̥̥[ə]j/	/*[s]ˁak-s/
English	corpse	white silk
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	素
Reading #	1/1	1/1
No.	11396	12099
Phonetic component	尸	素
Rime group	脂	魚
Rime subdivision	2	0
Corresponding MC rime		訴
Old Chinese	/*hli/	/*saːs/

Idiom

尸素

1. (derogatory or humble) Short for 尸位素餐 (shīwèisùcān).