筮

筮

筮 U+7B6E, 筮 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7B6E ← 筭 [U+7B6D] CJK Unified Ideographs 筯 → [U+7B6F]

Translingual

Han character

筮 (radical 118, 竹+7, 13 strokes, cangjie input 竹一人人 (HMOO), four-corner 8810₈, composition ⿱⺮巫)

1. divination with stalks of plants
2. divining rod

References

• KangXi: page 885, character 23
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 26070
• Dae Jaweon: page 1314, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 2972, character 4
• Unihan data for U+7B6E

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		筮

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 筮
Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Characters in the same phonetic series (筮) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
噬	*djads
筮	*djads
簭	*djads
澨	*djads
遾	*djads

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shì (shi⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄕˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): sai⁶
• Min Nan (POJ): sē

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: shì
    • Zhuyin: ㄕˋ
    • Wade–Giles: shih⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shyh
    • IPA ^(key): /ʂʐ̩⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: sai⁶
    • Yale: saih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sai⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: sei⁶
    • IPA ^(key): /sɐi̯²²/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sē
    • Tâi-lô: sē
    • Phofsit Daibuun: se
    • IPA (Xiamen): /se²²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /se⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /se²²/
    • IPA (Taipei): /se³³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /se³³/

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• Middle Chinese: /d͡ʑiᴇi^H/▼

Rime
Character	筮
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	常 (25)
Final (韻)	祭 (35)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	時制切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/d͡ʑiᴇiH/
Pan Wuyun	/d͡ʑiɛiH/
Shao Rongfen	/d͡ʑjæiH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/d͡ʑiajH/
Li Rong	/ʑiɛiH/
Wang Li	/ʑĭɛiH/
Bernard Karlgren	/ʑi̯ɛiH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	shì

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[d][e][t]-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*djads/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	筮
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	shì
Middle Chinese	‹ dzyejH ›
Old Chinese	/*[d][e][t]-s/
English	divine by Achillea stalks
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	筮
Reading #	1/1
No.	11658
Phonetic component	筮
Rime group	祭
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	逝
Old Chinese	/*djads/

Definitions

筮

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Compounds

卜筮 (bǔshì)

筮仕 (shìshì)

龜筮／龟筮

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Kanji

筮

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): せい (sei), ぜい (zei)
• Kun: めどぎ (medogi), うらなう (uranau)

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Korean

Hanja

筮 • (seo) (hangeul 서, revised seo, McCune–Reischauer sŏ, Yale se)

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Vietnamese

Han character

筮 (vầu, phệ, thệ)

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