凄

See also: 淒 and 悽
凄 U+51C4, 凄
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-51C4
← 凃
[U+51C3] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 凅 →
[U+51C5]

Translingual

Han character

凄 (Kangxi radical 15, 冫+8, 10 strokes, cangjie input 戈一十中女 (IMJLV), four-corner 35144, composition ⿰冫妻)

  1. bitter cold, miserable, dreary

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 132, character 33
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1657
  • Dae Jaweon: page 296, character 22
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 299, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+51C4

Chinese

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (妻) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
妻 *sʰiːl, *sʰiːls
萋 *sʰiːl
淒 *sʰiːl
凄 *sʰiːl
悽 *sʰiːl
鶈 *sʰiːl
郪 *sʰiːl, *sʰil
緀 *sʰiːl, *sʰiːlʔ
霋 *sʰiːl
棲 *siːl

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *sʰiːl): semantic 冫 (“ice”) + phonetic 妻 (OC *sʰiːl, *sʰiːls).

Etymology 1

For pronunciation and definitions of 凄 – see 淒 (“chilly; cold; frigid; miserable; sorrowful; sad; etc.”).
(This character is the simplified and variant form of 淒).
Notes:

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 凄 – see 悽 (“miserable; sorrowful; sad”).
(This character is the simplified form of 悽).
Notes:

Japanese

Kanji

凄

(Jōyō kanji)

  1. uncanny
  2. awful, whacking, enormous, bloody, terrible

Readings

  • Go-on: さい (sai)
  • Kan-on: せい (sei, Jōyō)
  • Kun: さむい (samui, 凄い)、すさまじい (susamajii, 凄まじい)、すごい (sugoi, 凄い)、すごみ (sugomi, 凄み)、すごむ (sugomu, 凄む)

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

凄 (eum 처 (cheo))

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Vietnamese

Han character

凄: Hán Nôm readings: thê

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