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誓

誓 U+8A93, 誓
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8A93
← 誒
[U+8A92] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 誔 →
[U+8A94]

Translingual edit

Han character edit

誓 (Kangxi radical 149, 言+7, 14 strokes, cangjie input 手中卜一口 (QLYMR), four-corner 52601, composition ⿱折言)

Derived characters edit

References edit

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1162, character 1
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 35514
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1627, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3973, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+8A93

Chinese edit

simp. and trad.
 誓
alternative forms 逝
䤱 ancient
𣂶 ancient
𣂯 ancient

Glyph origin edit

Historical forms of the character 誓
Western Zhou Warring States Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Bronze inscriptions Chu slip and silk script Small seal script
     
Characters in the same phonetic series (折) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
晢 *ʔljeds, *ʔljed
狾 *ʔljeds
誓 *ɦljeds
逝 *ɦljeds
銴 *ɢljeds, *ɢʷleds
折 *l'eːl, *ʔljed, *ɦljed
娎 *hleːws, *qʰred
哳 *ʔr'eːd
踅 *sɢʷled
哲 *ʔl'ed
蜇 *ʔl'ed
悊 *ʔl'ed
嚞 *ted
喆 *ted
硩 *l̥ʰed, *l̥ʰeːɡ
浙 *ʔljed
晣 *ʔljed
焎 *hred

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ɦljeds) : phonetic 折 (OC *l'eːl, *ʔljed, *ɦljed) + semantic 言 (“speech”).

Pronunciation edit

Note:
  • sē/sī - literary;
  • chōa - vernacular;
  • sè - vernacular (俗).
Rime
Character 誓
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 常 (25)
Final (韻) 祭 (35)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 時制切
Baxter dzyejH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/d͡ʑiᴇiH/
Pan
Wuyun 		/d͡ʑiɛiH/
Shao
Rongfen 		/d͡ʑjæiH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/d͡ʑiajH/
Li
Rong 		/ʑiɛiH/
Wang
Li 		/ʑĭɛiH/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/ʑi̯ɛiH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		shì
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		sai6
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 誓
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		shì
Middle
Chinese 		‹ dzyejH ›
Old
Chinese 		/*[d][a]t-s/
English swear

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 誓
Reading # 1/1
No. 16934
Phonetic
component 		折
Rime
group 		祭
Rime
subdivision 		2
Corresponding
MC rime 		逝
Old
Chinese 		/*ɦljeds/

Definitions edit

誓

  1. to swear; to vow; to pledge
    誓師／誓师  ―  shìshī  ―  to take a mass pledge before one's troops
  2. oath; pledge; vow
    宣誓  ―  xuānshì  ―  to take an oath

Compounds edit

References edit

Japanese edit

Kanji edit

誓

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. vow
  2. swear
  3. pledge

Readings edit

Etymology edit

Kanji in this term
誓
うけい
Grade: S
kun’yomi
Alternative spellings
誓ひ
祈
祈ひ
誓約
祈請
 うけい on Japanese Wikipedia

Continuative of 誓ふ (ukefu, “to vow”)

Noun edit

誓(うけい) • (ukei) ←うけひ (ukefi)?

  1. (archaic, Shinto, Japanese mythology) an "oath", a ritual in which whether something is true or false, right or wrong, good or evil, etc. is judged based on whether the stated outcome of an act comes true as expected
    アマテラスとスサノオの誓約(うけい)
    Amaterasu to Susanoo no ukei
    the oath of Amaterasu and Susanoo


Korean edit

Etymology edit

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Middle Korean readings, if any”)

Pronunciation edit

Hanja edit

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

Wikisource

誓 • (seo) (hangeul 서, revised seo, McCune–Reischauer sŏ, Yale se)

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Vietnamese edit

Han character edit

誓: Hán Nôm readings: thệ, thề

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