席

See also: 蓆 and 度

Contents

TranslingualEdit

Han characterEdit

席 (radical 50 巾+7, 10 strokes, cangjie input 戈廿中月 (ITLB), four-corner 0022₇, composition ⿸广⿱廿巾)

See alsoEdit

• 度 庶 (unrelated, graphically similar)

ReferencesEdit

• KangXi: page 332, character 8
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 8926
• Dae Jaweon: page 638, character 7
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 741, character 4
• Unihan data for U+5E2D

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ChineseEdit

simp. and trad.		席

PronunciationEdit

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xí (xi²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zik⁶
• Min Nan (POJ): se̍k

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: xí
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧˊ
    • Wade-Giles: hsih²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shyi
    • IPA ^(key): /ɕi³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: zik⁶
    • Yale: jihk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzik⁹
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡sɪk̚²/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: se̍k
    • Tâi-lô: si̍k
    • Phofsit Daibuun: sek
    • IPA (Taipei): /ɕiɪk̚⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /ɕiɪk̚¹²¹/

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• Dialectal data▼

Variety	Location	edit 席
Mandarin	Beijing	/ɕi³⁵/
	Harbin	/ɕi²⁴/
	Tianjin	/ɕi⁴⁵/
	Jinan	/ɕi⁴²/
	Qingdao	/si⁴²/
	Zhengzhou	/si⁴²/
	Xi'an	/ɕi²⁴/
	Xining	/ɕji²⁴/
	Yinchuan	/ɕi¹³/
	Lanzhou	/ɕi⁵³/
	Ürümqi	/ɕi⁵¹/
	Wuhan	/ɕi²¹³/
	Chengdu	/ɕi³¹/
	Guiyang	/ɕi²¹/
	Kunming	/ɕi³¹/
	Nanjing	/siʔ⁵/
	Hefei	/ɕiəʔ⁵/
Jin	Taiyuan	/ɕiəʔ⁵⁴/
	Pingyao	/ɕiʌʔ⁵³/
	Hohhot	/ɕiəʔ⁴³/
Wu	Shanghai	/ʑiɪʔ¹/
	Suzhou	/ziəʔ³/
	Hangzhou	/d͡ʑiəʔ²/
	Wenzhou	/zei²¹³/
Hui	Shexian	/t͡sʰi²²/
	Tunxi	/se¹¹/
Xiang	Changsha	/si²⁴/
	Xiangtan	/si²⁴/
Gan	Nanchang	/t͡ɕʰiɑʔ²/ ～子 /ɕiʔ⁵/ 酒～
Hakka	Meixian	/sit̚⁵/
	Taoyuan	/sit̚²²/
Cantonese	Guangzhou	/t͡sek̚²/
	Nanning	/t͡sek̚²²/
	Hong Kong	/t͡sik̚²/
Min	Xiamen (Min Nan)	/sik̚⁵/ /sia⁵/ 宴～ /t͡sʰio³⁵/ 蓆
	Fuzhou (Min Dong)	/siʔ⁵/
	Jian'ou (Min Bei)	/si⁴⁴/ /siɔ⁴⁴/
	Shantou (Min Nan)	/t͡sʰioʔ⁵/ /siaʔ⁵/
	Haikou (Min Nan)	/sio³³/ 蓆 /tiak̚³/ /tia³⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: /ziᴇk̚/▼

Rime
Character	席
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	邪 (17)
Final (韻)	昔 (123)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	祥易切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ziᴇk̚/
Pan Wuyun	/ziɛk̚/
Shao Rongfen	/ziæk̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ziajk̚/
Li Rong	/ziɛk̚/
Wang Li	/zĭɛk̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/zi̯ɛk̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xí

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter-Sagart): /*s-m-tAk/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ljaːɡ/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	席
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	xí
Middle Chinese	‹ zjek ›
Old Chinese	/*s-m-tAk/
English	mat
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	席
Reading #	1/1
No.	11912
Phonetic component	庶
Rime group	鐸
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	席
Old Chinese	/*ljaːɡ/
Notes	說文庶省古文從石省

NounEdit

席

1. seat
2. woven mat made of bamboo strips and grass
3. food of a banquet
4. classifier for conversations
5. classifier for members of parliament

ReferencesEdit

• (Min Nan) “Entry #5915”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (in Chinese and Min Nan), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2011.
• Zdic
• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典)

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JapaneseEdit

KanjiEdit

席

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. seat
2. mat
3. location

ReadingsEdit

• Goon: じゃく (jaku)
• Kan’on: せき (seki)
• Kun: むしろ (mushiro)

CompoundsEdit

議席 (ぎせき) ‎(giseki) 座席 (ざせき) ‎(zaseki) 欠席 (けっせき) ‎(kesseki)

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KoreanEdit

HanjaEdit

席 • ‎(seok) (hangeul 석, revised seok, McCune-Reischauer sŏk)

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VietnameseEdit

Han characterEdit

席 (tiệc, tịch)

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