嘶

嘶	U+5636, 嘶 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5636

← 嘵
[U+5635]

CJK Unified Ideographs

嘷 →
[U+5637]

Translingual

Han character

嘶 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+12, 15 strokes, cangjie input 口廿金中 (RTCL), four-corner 6202₁, composition ⿰口斯)

References

KangXi: page 207, character 14
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 4260
Dae Jaweon: page 430, character 12
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 681, character 6
Unihan data for U+5636

Chinese

simp. and trad.		嘶

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
嘶	*seː
撕	seː, se
斯	*se
廝	*se
蟴	*se
燍	*se
鐁	*se
凘	*se
澌	*ses

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *seː) : semantic 口 (“mouth”) + phonetic 斯 (OC *se).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): sī (si¹)
(Zhuyin): ㄙ
Cantonese (Jyutping): sai¹, si¹
Hakka (Sixian, PFS): sê
Min Nan (POJ): sir / su

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: sī
  - Zhuyin: ㄙ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: sih
  - Wade–Giles: ssŭ¹
  - Yale: sz̄
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: sy
  - Palladius: сы (sy)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /sz̩⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: sai¹, si¹
  - Yale: sāi, sī
  - Cantonese Pinyin: sai¹, si¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: sei¹, xi¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɐi̯⁵⁵/, /siː⁵⁵/

Note: si1 - variant.

Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: sê
  - Hakka Romanization System: se´
  - Hagfa Pinyim: se¹
  - Sinological IPA: /se²⁴/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sir
  - Tâi-lô: sir
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /sɯ³³/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: su
  - Tâi-lô: su
  - Phofsit Daibuun: sw
  - IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /su⁴⁴/

Middle Chinese: /sei/

Rime
Character	嘶
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	心 (16)
Final (韻)	齊 (39)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	IV
Fanqie	先稽切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/sei/
Pan Wuyun	/sei/
Shao Rongfen	/sɛi/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/sɛj/
Li Rong	/sei/
Wang Li	/siei/
Bernard Karlgren	/siei/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xī
Expected Cantonese Reflex	sai¹

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*[s]ˤe/
(Zhengzhang): /*seː/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	嘶
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	sī
Middle Chinese	‹ sej ›
Old Chinese	/*[s]ˁe/
English	shriek
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	嘶
Reading #	1/1
No.	11993
Phonetic component	斯
Rime group	支
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	西
Old Chinese	/*seː/

Definitions

嘶

neighing of a horse
husky throated; gravel voiced
嘶啞／嘶哑 ― sīyǎ ― hoarse; husky
(of birds; insects) mournful murmur; whimpering
天霜河白夜星稀，一雁聲嘶何處歸。 [MSC, trad.]
天霜河白夜星稀，一雁声嘶何处归。 [MSC, simp.]
From: Emperor Jianwen of Liang 梁簡文帝, 《夜望單飛雁》
Tiān shuāng hé bái yè xīng xī, yī yàn shēng sī héchù guī. [Pinyin]
(please add an English translation of this example)
(onomatopoeia, of various sounds) eg. sound of paper being shredded; sobbing
老翁夜行無子攜，眼昏失腳非有擠；明日尋者爾瘦妻，手提幼女哭嘶嘶。 [MSC, trad.]
老翁夜行无子携，眼昏失脚非有挤；明日寻者尔瘦妻，手提幼女哭嘶嘶。 [MSC, simp.]
From: Mei Yaochen 梅堯臣, 《淘渠》
Lǎowēng yè xíng wú zǐ xié, yǎn hūn shī jiǎo fēi yǒu jǐ; míngrì xún zhě ěr shòu qī, shǒu tí yòunǚ kū sīsī. [Pinyin]
(please add an English translation of this example)

Compounds

嘶叫 (sījiào)
嘶吼
嘶喊 (sīhǎn)
嘶喝
嘶嘶 (sīsī)
嘶噪

酸嘶
人喊馬嘶／人喊马嘶
人語馬嘶／人语马嘶
力竭聲嘶／力竭声嘶 (lìjiéshēngsī)
嘶啞／嘶哑 (sīyǎ)
嘶聲／嘶声

嘶鳴／嘶鸣
老馬嘶風／老马嘶风
聲嘶／声嘶
聲嘶力竭／声嘶力竭 (shēngsīlìjié)
蟬嘶／蝉嘶
馬嘶／马嘶 (mǎsī)

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 嘶 – see 𤺊 (“(Cantonese) to hiccup”). (This character, 嘶, is a variant form of 𤺊.)

References

Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A00685
“嘶”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Japanese

Kanji

嘶

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

to neigh, to whinny

Readings

Go-on: さい (sai)
Kan-on: せい (sei)
Kan’yō-on: し (shi)
Kun: いななく (inanaku, 嘶く); いばえる (ibaeru, 嘶える)^{←いばへる (ibaferu, historical)}; ころろく (kororoku, 嘶く)

Compounds

悲嘶(ひせい) (hisei)

Korean

Hanja

嘶 • (si) (hangeul 시, revised si, McCune–Reischauer si)

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Vietnamese

Han character

嘶: Hán Nôm readings: tê

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References

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