屍骸

See also: 尸骸

Chinese

		corpse	bones of the body
trad. (屍骸)		屍	骸
simp. (尸骸)		尸	骸

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): shīhái
(Zhuyin): ㄕㄏㄞˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): si¹ haai⁴
Min Nan (POJ): si-hâi

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: shīhái
  - Zhuyin: ㄕㄏㄞˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: shihhái
  - Wade–Giles: shih¹-hai²
  - Yale: shr̄-hái
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shyhair
  - Palladius: шихай (šixaj)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂʐ̩⁵⁵ xaɪ̯³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: si¹ haai⁴
  - Yale: sī hàaih
  - Cantonese Pinyin: si¹ haai⁴
  - Guangdong Romanization: xi¹ hai⁴
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /siː⁵⁵ haːi̯²¹/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: si-hâi
  - Tâi-lô: si-hâi
  - Phofsit Daibuun: si'haai
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /ɕi³³ hai²⁴/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /ɕi⁴⁴⁻²² hai¹³/
  - IPA (Xiamen): /ɕi⁴⁴⁻²² hai²⁴/

Noun

屍骸

(literary) skeleton of a dead person
(literary) dead body; corpse
- 然而即日證明是事實了，作證的便是她自己的屍骸。 [MSC, trad.]
  然而即日证明是事实了，作证的便是她自己的尸骸。 [MSC, simp.]
  From: 1926, Lu Xun, “In Memory of Miss Liu Hezhen”
  Rán'ér jírì zhèngmíng shì shìshí le, zuòzhèng de biàn shì tā zìjǐ de shīhái. [Pinyin]
  Yet on that day it proved to be true, the evidence being her own dead body.

Synonyms

(skeleton; corpse): 屍骨／尸骨 (shīgǔ)
(dead body):

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死人 (sǐrén)
骸骨 (háigǔ) (skeletal remains)
大體／大体 (dàtǐ) (Taiwan, polite)
屍身／尸身 (shīshēn)
屍首／尸首 (shīshou)

屍骨／尸骨 (shīgǔ)
屍體／尸体 (shītǐ)
死屍／死尸 (sǐshī)
遺骸／遗骸 (yíhái) (remains)
遺體／遗体 (yítǐ) (remains)

Dialectal synonyms of 屍體 (“corpse”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical Chinese		屍
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		屍體, 屍身, 屍首, 屍骨, 屍骸, 死屍, 死人, 遺體
Mandarin	Beijing	遺體, 屍首兒, 埋體 Hui
	Taiwan	屍體, 大體 polite
	Tianjin	屍首
	Tangshan	遺體, 屍首
	Cangzhou	遺體
	Baoding	屍首, 屍體
	Shijiazhuang	屍體, 屍首
	Chifeng	遺體
	Hulunbuir (Hailar)	遺體
	Harbin	遺體
	Shenyang	遺體
	Yantai (Muping)	屍首兒, 死屍
	Qingdao	屍體
	Jinan	屍首, 遺體
	Wanrong	屍首
	Zhengzhou	屍首兒
	Xi'an	屍首, 遺體
	Yinchuan	遺體, 屍體, 埋體
	Lanzhou	屍首, 遺體
	Xining	屍體
	Ürümqi	遺體
	Wuhan	遺體
	Chengdu	屍首, 屍體, 屍, 死人
	Chongqing	屍體
	Guiyang	屍首, 屍體
	Kunming	遺體
	Guilin	遺體
	Liuzhou	遺體
	Xuzhou	遺體, 死屍, 屍體
	Yangzhou	屍首, 遺體
	Nanjing	死屍, 屍首
	Hefei	遺體
	Nantong	遺體
	Singapore	屍體
	Sokuluk (Gansu Dungan)	埋體
	Masanchin (Shaanxi Dungan)	埋體
Cantonese	Guangzhou	屍骸, 死屍
Cantonese	Hong Kong	屍體, 死屍, 屍
Gan	Nanchang	屍身
Gan	Pingxiang	死屍
Hakka	Meixian	屍首, 死佬
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	屍體, 屍首, 身屍, 死佬, 垃圾仔
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	屍體, 屍首, 身屍
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	屍體, 屍首, 身屍, 死佬, 垃圾仔
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	屍體, 屍首, 身屍, 死佬
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	屍體, 屍首, 身屍, 死佬, 死屍
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	屍體, 屍首, 身屍
Huizhou	Jixi	屍首, 死屍
Huizhou	Shexian	遺體, 死屍
Jin	Taiyuan	屍體
	Xinzhou	死人, 死骨劣兒子
	Linhe	屍首
	Jining	遺體
	Hohhot	遺體
	Zhangjiakou	遺體, 屍首
	Handan	遺體
Min Bei	Jian'ou	死人
Min Dong	Fuzhou	身屍
Min Nan	Xiamen	身屍
	Quanzhou	身屍
	Zhangzhou	身屍
	Tainan	身屍
	Penang (Hokkien)	死儂
	Singapore (Hokkien)	身屍
	Manila (Hokkien)	身屍, 死儂
	Shantou	屍首, 死屍
	Jieyang	身屍
	Haikou	死屍
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	屍體
Wu	Shanghai	死屍, 屍體
	Suzhou	死屍
	Danyang	死屍
	Hangzhou	死人, 死屍
	Ningbo	死屍, 死人
	Wenzhou	屍, 屍骸

Derived terms

殺人放火金腰帶，修橋補路無屍骸／杀人放火金腰带，修桥补路无尸骸

Japanese

Kanji in this term
屍	骸
し Hyōgaiji	がい Grade: S
on’yomi

For pronunciation and definitions of 屍骸 – see the following entry.

【死骸しがい】

[noun] corpse

(This term, 屍骸, is an alternative spelling of the above Sino-Japanese term.)