萋

萋 U+840B, 萋 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-840B ← 萊 [U+840A] CJK Unified Ideographs 萌 → [U+840C]

Translingual

Han character

萋 (radical 140, 艸+8, 14 strokes, cangjie input 廿十中女 (TJLV), four-corner 4440₄, composition ⿱艹妻)

References

• KangXi: page 1041, character 4
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31264
• Dae Jaweon: page 1499, character 24
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3232, character 1
• Unihan data for U+840B

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		萋

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (妻) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
妻	*sʰiːl, *sʰiːls
萋	*sʰiːl
淒	*sʰiːl
凄	*sʰiːl
悽	*sʰiːl
鶈	*sʰiːl
郪	*sʰiːl, *sʰil
緀	*sʰiːl, *sʰiːlʔ
霋	*sʰiːl
棲	*siːl

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): qī (qi¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄑㄧ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): cai¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: qī
    • Zhuyin: ㄑㄧ
    • Wade–Giles: chʻi1
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chi
    • Tongyong Pinyin: ci
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰi⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: cai¹
    • Yale: chāi
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsai¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: cei¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰɐi̯⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: /t͡sʰei/

Rime
Character	萋
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	清 (14)
Final (韻)	齊 (39)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	IV
Fanqie	七稽切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡sʰei/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡sʰei/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡sʰɛi/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/t͡sʰɛj/
Li Rong	/t͡sʰei/
Wang Li	/t͡sʰiei/
Bernard Karlgren	/t͡sʰiei/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	qī

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[tsʰ]ˤəj/

  (Zhengzhang): /*sʰiːl/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	萋
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	qī
Middle Chinese	‹ tshej ›
Old Chinese	/*[tsʰ]ˁəj/
English	ample, rich, luxuriant
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	萋
Reading #	1/1
No.	9914
Phonetic component	妻
Rime group	脂
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	妻
Old Chinese	/*sʰiːl/

Definitions

萋

1. luxuriant, lavish, abundant

Compounds

• 萋斐貝錦／萋斐贝锦
• 萋萋 (qīqī)

• 萋萋綽綽／萋萋绰绰
• 萋迷

• 貝錦萋菲／贝锦萋菲

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Japanese

Kanji

萋

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): せい (sei), さい (sai), し (shi)

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Korean

Hanja

萋 • (cheo) (hangeul 처, revised cheo, McCune–Reischauer ch'ŏ, Yale che)

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