泗

泗

泗 U+6CD7, 泗 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6CD7 ← 泖 [U+6CD6] CJK Unified Ideographs 泘 → [U+6CD8]

Translingual

Han character

泗 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 水田金 (EWC), four-corner 3610₀, composition ⿰氵四)

References

• KangXi: page 616, character 17
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17294
• Dae Jaweon: page 1011, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1587, character 3
• Unihan data for U+6CD7

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		泗

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 泗
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Characters in the same phonetic series (四) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
訵	*l̥ʰids
四	*hljids
泗	*hljids
駟	*hljids
柶	*hljids
牭	*hljids
呬	*hrids

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *hljids) : semantic 氵 (“water”) + phonetic 四 (OC *hljids).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): sì (si⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄙˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): si³, sei³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: sì
    • Zhuyin: ㄙˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: sìh
    • Wade–Giles: ssŭ⁴
    • Yale: sz̀
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: syh
    • Palladius: сы (sy)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sz̩⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: si³, sei³
    • Yale: si, sei
    • Cantonese Pinyin: si³, sei³
    • Guangdong Romanization: xi³, séi³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /siː³³/, /sei̯³³/

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• Middle Chinese: /siɪ^H/

Rime
Character	泗
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	心 (16)
Final (韻)	脂 (15)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	息利切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/siɪH/
Pan Wuyun	/siH/
Shao Rongfen	/sjɪH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/siH/
Li Rong	/siH/
Wang Li	/siH/
Bernard Karlgren	/siH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	sì
Expected Cantonese Reflex	si3

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*hljids/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	泗
Reading #	1/1
No.	12023
Phonetic component	四
Rime group	至
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	四
Old Chinese	/*hljids/

Definitions

泗

1. (literary) nasal mucus
2. sniffle
3. Si River (a river in Shandong, China)

Compounds

悲泗淋漓 感激涕泗 泗州 (Sìzhōu) 泗水 (Sìshuǐ) 泗河 消泗 (Xiāosì) 涕泗 (tìsì)

涕泗交下 涕泗交流 涕泗滂沱 (tìsìpāngtuó) 泗里街 (Sìlǐjiē) 嵊泗列島／嵊泗列岛 楊泗將軍／杨泗将军

楊泗菩薩／杨泗菩萨 泗州戲／泗州戏 泗澗溝／泗涧沟 (Sìjiàngōu, “Sijiangou”) 涕泗交頤／涕泗交颐 涕泗橫流／涕泗横流 (tìsì héngliú) 涕泗縱橫／涕泗纵横

References

• “泗”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學／香港中文大学 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

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Japanese

Kanji

泗

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: し (shi)
• Kan-on: し (shi)
• Kun: なみだ (namida); はなじる (hanajiru)

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Korean

Hanja

泗 (eum 사 (sa))

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Vietnamese

Han character

泗: Hán Nôm readings: tứa

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