窸

窸

窸 U+7AB8, 窸 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7AB8 ← 窷 [U+7AB7] CJK Unified Ideographs 窹 → [U+7AB9]

Translingual

Han character

窸 (radical 116, 穴+11, 16 strokes, cangjie input 十金竹木心 (JCHDP), four-corner 3033₉, composition ⿱穴悉)

1. faint sound, whisper

References

• KangXi: page 868, character 3
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 25631
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2740, character 20
• Unihan data for U+7AB8

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		窸

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (悉) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
僁	*siːd, *sid
悉	*sid
蟋	*sid, *srid
窸	*sid

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xī (xi¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): sik¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: xī
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧ
    • Wade–Giles: hsih¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shi
    • IPA ^(key): /ɕi⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: sik¹
    • Yale: sīk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sik⁷
    • Guangdong Romanization: xig¹
    • IPA ^(key): /sɪk̚⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: /siɪt̚/▼

Rime
Character	窸
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	心 (16)
Final (韻)	質 (48)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	息七切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/siɪt̚/
Pan Wuyun	/sit̚/
Shao Rongfen	/sjet̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/sit̚/
Li Rong	/siĕt̚/
Wang Li	/sĭĕt̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/si̯ĕt̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xi

• Old Chinese▼

  (Zhengzhang): /*sid/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	窸
Reading #	1/1
No.	13342
Phonetic component	悉
Rime group	質
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	悉
Old Chinese	/*sid/

Definitions

窸

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Compounds

窸窣 (xīsū)

窸窸窣窣