塒

塒

See also: 埘

塒 U+5852, 塒 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5852 ← 塑 [U+5851] CJK Unified Ideographs 塓 → [U+5853]

Translingual

Han character

塒 (Kangxi radical 32, 土+10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 土日土戈 (GAGI), four-corner 4414₁, composition ⿰土時)

References

• KangXi: page 235, character 11
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5329
• Dae Jaweon: page 473, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 471, character 12
• Unihan data for U+5852

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Chinese

trad.		塒
simp.		埘

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
等	*tɯːʔ, *tɯːŋʔ
待	*dɯːʔ
寺	*ljɯs
持	*l'ɯ
峙	*dɯʔ
痔	*dɯʔ
跱	*dɯʔ
歭	*dɯʔ
洔	*dɯʔ, *tjɯʔ
畤	*dɯʔ, *tjɯʔ, *djɯʔ
秲	*dɯʔ, *djɯs
庤	*dɯʔ
時	*djɯ
鰣	*djɯ
塒	*djɯ
蒔	*djɯ, *djɯs
榯	*djɯ
恃	*djɯʔ
侍	*djɯs
詩	*hljɯ
邿	*hljɯ
特	*dɯːɡ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shí (shi²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄕˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): si⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: shí
    • Zhuyin: ㄕˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: shíh
    • Wade–Giles: shih²
    • Yale: shŕ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shyr
    • Palladius: ши (ši)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂʐ̩³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: si⁴
    • Yale: sìh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: si⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: xi⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /siː²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: /d͡ʑɨ/

Rime
Character	塒
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	常 (25)
Final (韻)	之 (19)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	市之切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/d͡ʑɨ/
Pan Wuyun	/d͡ʑɨ/
Shao Rongfen	/d͡ʑie/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/d͡ʑɨ/
Li Rong	/ʑiə/
Wang Li	/ʑĭə/
Bernard Karlgren	/ʑi/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	chí
Expected Cantonese Reflex	si4

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*djɯ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	塒
Reading #	1/1
No.	12044
Phonetic component	寺
Rime group	之
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	時
Old Chinese	/*djɯ/

Definitions

塒

1. roost, especially those made by piercing the wall

   • 雞棲于塒、日之夕矣、羊牛下來。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad.]
     鸡栖于埘、日之夕矣、羊牛下来。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11^th – 7^th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

     Jī qī yú shí, rì zhī xī yǐ, yáng niú xiàlái. [Pinyin]

     The fowls roost in their holes in the walls; and in the evening of the day, the goats and cows come down [from the hill].

Compounds

塒雞／埘鸡

雞塒／鸡埘 (jīshí)

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Japanese

Kanji

塒

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

Readings

• Go-on: じ (ji)
• Kan-on: し (shi)
• Kun: ねぐら (negura), とぐろ (toguro), とや (toya), とぐら (togura)

Compounds

• 就塒(しゅうじ) (shūji, “roosting”)

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
塒
ねぐら Hyōgaiji
kun’yomi

Compound of 寝(ね) (ne) + 座(くら) (kura).[1] The kura changes to gura as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

Pronunciation

• Kun’yomi
• (Tokyo) ねぐら [nègúrá] (Heiban – [0])[1][2]
• IPA^(key): [ne̞ɡɯ̟ᵝɾa̠]

Noun

塒(ねぐら) • (negura) 

1. roost

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
塒
とぐろ Hyōgaiji
kun’yomi

Alternative forms

• 蜷局

Pronunciation

• Kun’yomi
• (Tokyo) とぐろ​ [tògúróꜜ] (Odaka – [3])[1][2]
• (Tokyo) とぐろ [tògúró] (Heiban – [0])[1][2]
• IPA^(key): [to̞ɡɯ̟ᵝɾo̞]

Noun

塒(とぐろ) • (toguro) 

1. coil

Derived terms

• 塒(とぐろ)を巻(ま)く (toguro o maku)

Etymology 3

Kanji in this term
塒
とや Hyōgaiji
kun’yomi

Compound of 鳥(と) (to) + 屋(や) (ya).

Alternative forms

• 鳥屋

Pronunciation

• Kun’yomi
• (Tokyo) とや [tòyá] (Heiban – [0])[1][2]
• IPA^(key): [to̞ja̠]

Noun

塒(とや) • (toya) 

1. henhouse

Etymology 4

Kanji in this term
塒
とぐら Hyōgaiji
kun’yomi

Compound of 鳥(と) (to) + 座(くら) (kura). The kura changes to gura as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

Alternative forms

• 鳥栖, 鳥座

Pronunciation

• Kun’yomi
• IPA^(key): [to̞ɡɯ̟ᵝɾa̠]

Noun

塒(とぐら) • (togura) 

1. nest

References

1. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
2. 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

塒: Hán Việt readings: thì[1][2][3]

1. chữ Hán form of thì (“nest, roost”).

References

1. Trần (2004).
2. Trần (1999).
3. Nguyễn (1974).