螽斯

Chinese edit

		(grasshopper); Gompsocleis mikado	phonetic; this
simp. and trad. (螽斯)		螽	斯

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螽斯

Pronunciation edit

Mandarin
(Pinyin): zhōngsī

(Zhuyin): ㄓㄨㄥㄙ
Cantonese (Jyutping): zung¹ si¹
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): chiong-su

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: zhōngsī
  - Zhuyin: ㄓㄨㄥㄙ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: jhongsih
  - Wade–Giles: chung¹-ssŭ¹
  - Yale: jūng-sz̄
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jongsy
  - Palladius: чжунсы (čžunsy)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʊŋ⁵⁵ sz̩⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: zung¹ si¹
  - Yale: jūng sī
  - Cantonese Pinyin: dzung¹ si¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: zung¹ xi¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʊŋ⁵⁵ siː⁵⁵/
  - Homophones:
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    螽斯
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chiong-su
  - Tâi-lô: tsiong-su
  - Phofsit Daibuun: ciongsw
  - IPA (Xiamen): /t͡siɔŋ⁴⁴⁻²² su⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡siɔŋ³³ su³³/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡siɔŋ⁴⁴⁻²² su⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Taipei): /t͡siɔŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ su⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡siɔŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ su⁴⁴/

Middle Chinese: tsyuwng sje

Rime
Character	螽	斯
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	章 (23)	心 (16)
Final (韻)	東 (2)	支 (11)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	職戎切	息移切
Baxter	tsyuwng	sje
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡ɕɨuŋ/	/siᴇ/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡ɕiuŋ/	/siɛ/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡ɕiuŋ/	/sjɛ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/cuwŋ/	/siə̆/
Li Rong	/t͡ɕiuŋ/	/sie/
Wang Li	/t͡ɕĭuŋ/	/sǐe/
Bernard Karlgren	/t͡ɕi̯uŋ/	/sie̯/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zhōng	sī
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zung¹	si¹

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*tuŋ [s]e/

(Zhengzhang): /*tjuŋ se/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	螽	斯	斯
Reading #	1/1	1/3	2/3
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	zhōng	sī	sī
Middle Chinese	‹ tsyuwng ›	‹ sje ›	‹ sje ›
Old Chinese	/*tuŋ/	/*[s]e/	/*[s]e/
English	tsyuwng.sje locust	split (v.)	this
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	螽	斯
Reading #	1/1	1/1
No.	2429	11995
Phonetic component	冬	斯
Rime group	終	支
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	終	斯
Old Chinese	/*tjuŋ/	/*se/
Notes		朱駿聲雲斯爲會意字，非其聲

Noun edit

螽斯

katydid; bush-cricket (Tettigoniidae)
- 螽斯羽、詵詵兮。宜爾子孫、振振兮。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad.]
  螽斯羽、诜诜兮。宜尔子孙、振振兮。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, simp.]
  From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11^th – 7^th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version
  Zhōngsī yǔ, shēnshēn xī. Yí ěr zǐsūn, zhènzhèn xī. [Pinyin]
  Ye winged bush-crickets, how harmoniously ye collect together! Right is it that your descendants should be multitudinous!

Synonyms edit

絡緯／络纬 (luòwěi)
蚣蝑 (zhōngxū)
蚣䗥／蚣𰲯 (zhōngzōng)
蚣𧐱／蚣𬟺 (zhōngzōng)
𧌻蝑 (sōngxū)
蜙蝑 (sōngxū)
𧌻𧐱／𧌻𬟺 (sōngzōng)
蜙䗥／蜙𰲯 (sōngzōng)
𧐱蝑／𬟺蝑 (cóngxū)
䗥蝑／𰲯蝑 (zōngxū)
𧐍𧑓 (chōngshǔ)

Hyponyms edit

紡織娘／纺织娘 (fǎngzhīniáng)

Derived terms edit

Japanese edit

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キリギリス

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Kanji in this term
螽	斯
Hyōgaiji	Jinmeiyō
irregular

Alternative spellings
螽蟖蟋蟀蛬

Etymology edit

The kanji are jukujikun (熟字訓), from Chinese 螽斯 (zhōngsī)

This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.
Particularly: “sounds like Old Japanese onomatopoeia, compare with ぎりぎり (girigiri)”

Pronunciation edit

(Tokyo) きりぎりす [kìrígíꜜrìsù] (Nakadaka – [3])
IPA^(key): [kʲiɾʲiɡʲiɾʲisɨᵝ]

Noun edit

螽斯(きりぎりす) or 螽斯(キリギリス) • (kirigirisu)

a Japanese katydid (Gampsocleis buergeri)