利息

Chinese

		advantage; benefit; profit advantage; benefit; profit; sharp	rest; news; interest rest; news; interest; breath
simp. and trad. (利息)		利	息

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Standard)
(Pinyin): lìxī, lìxí

(Zhuyin): ㄌㄧˋ ㄒㄧ, ㄌㄧˋ ㄒㄧˊ

(Chengdu, Sichuanese Pinyin): ni⁴ xi⁴
Cantonese (Jyutping): lei⁶ sik¹
Hakka
(Sixian, PFS): li-sit

(Hailu, HRS): li^˖ sid

(Changting, Changting Pinyin): li⁵ si²
Northern Min (KCR): lī-sî
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): lī-sek / lī-siak / lī-sit / lāi-sit / lāi-sek

(Teochew, Peng'im): li⁶ sêg⁴ / lai⁷ sêg⁴
Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁶li-shiq
Xiang (Changsha, Wiktionary): li⁴ si¹

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Mainland)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: lìxī → lìxi (toneless final syllable variant)
  - Zhuyin: ㄌㄧˋ ㄒㄧ → ㄌㄧˋ ˙ㄒㄧ (toneless final syllable variant)
  - Tongyong Pinyin: lìsi̊
  - Wade–Giles: li⁴-hsi⁵
  - Yale: lì-syi
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: lih.shi
  - Palladius: лиси (lisi)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /li⁵¹ ɕi⁵⁵/ → /li⁵¹ ɕi¹/
- (Standard Chinese, Taiwan)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: lìxí
  - Zhuyin: ㄌㄧˋ ㄒㄧˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: lìsí
  - Wade–Giles: li⁴-hsi²
  - Yale: lì-syí
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: lihshyi
  - Palladius: лиси (lisi)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /li⁵¹ ɕi³⁵/
- (Chengdu)
  - Sichuanese Pinyin: ni⁴ xi⁴
  - Scuanxua Ladinxua Xin Wenz: lixi
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ni²¹³ ɕi²¹³/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: lei⁶ sik¹
  - Yale: leih sīk
  - Cantonese Pinyin: lei⁶ sik⁷
  - Guangdong Romanization: léi⁶ xig¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /lei̯²² sɪk̚⁵/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: li-sit
  - Hakka Romanization System: li xid^ˋ
  - Hagfa Pinyim: li⁴ xid⁵
  - Sinological IPA: /li⁵⁵ sit̚²/
- (Hailu, incl. Zhudong)
  - Hakka Romanization System: li^˖ sid
  - Sinological IPA: /li³³ sit⁵/
- (Changting)
  - Changting Pinyin: li⁵ si²
  - Sinological IPA: /li²¹ si²⁴/
Northern Min
- (Jian'ou)
  - Kienning Colloquial Romanized: lī-sî
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /li⁵⁵ si³³/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lī-sek
  - Tâi-lô: lī-sik
  - Phofsit Daibuun: lixseg
  - IPA (Taipei): /li³³⁻¹¹ siɪk̚³²/
  - IPA (Xiamen): /li²²⁻²¹ siɪk̚³²/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /li³³⁻²¹ siɪk̚³²/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Jinjiang, Philippines)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lī-siak
  - Tâi-lô: lī-siak
  - Phofsit Daibuun: lixsiag
  - IPA (Quanzhou, Jinjiang, Philippines): /li⁴¹⁻²² siak̚⁵/
- (Hokkien: Zhangzhou, variant in Taiwan)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lī-sit
  - Tâi-lô: lī-sit
  - Phofsit Daibuun: lixsid
  - IPA (Taipei): /li³³⁻¹¹ sit̚³²/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /li³³⁻²¹ sit̚³²/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /li²²⁻²¹ sit̚³²/
- (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lāi-sit
  - Tâi-lô: lāi-sit
  - Phofsit Daibuun: laixsid
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /lai²²⁻²¹ sit̚³²/
- (Hokkien: variant in Taiwan)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lāi-sek
  - Tâi-lô: lāi-sik
  - Phofsit Daibuun: laixseg
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /lai³³⁻²¹ siɪk̚³²/
  - IPA (Taipei): /lai³³⁻¹¹ siɪk̚³²/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: li⁶ sêg⁴ / lai⁷ sêg⁴
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: lĭ sek / lāi sek
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /li³⁵⁻¹¹ sek̚²/, /lai¹¹ sek̚²/

Note: lai7 sêg4 - Pontianak.

Wu
- (Northern: Shanghai)
  - Wugniu: ⁶li-shiq
  - MiniDict: li^去 shih
  - Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ³li-xiq
  - Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /li²² ɕiɪʔ⁴⁴/
Xiang
- (Changsha)
  - Wiktionary: li⁴ si¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key) (old-style): /li⁴⁵ si³³/
  - Sinological IPA ^(key) (new-style): /li⁴⁵ ɕi³³/

Noun

利息

(finance) interest (on mortgages or savings)
收取利息 ― shōuqǔ lìxī ― to charge interest

Synonyms

edit

利仔錢 / 利仔钱 (Hokkien)
利子 (lìzi) (dated)
利鈿 / 利钿 (⁶li-di) (Wu)
利錁 / 利锞 (Puxian Min)
利錢 / 利钱 (lìqián)
子金 (zǐjīn) (literary)
子錢 / 子钱 (zǐqián) (historical)
息金 (xījīn) (literary)
息錢 / 息钱 (si⁶ zienn²) (Xiang)
錢利 / 钱利 (cièng-*lé) (Eastern Min)
錢息 / 钱息 (cièng-sék) (Eastern Min)

Derived terms

利息率 (lìxīlǜ)
本息 (běnxī)

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (利息):

→ Japanese: 利息(りそく) (risoku)
→ Korean: 이식(利息) (isik)
→ Vietnamese: lợi tức (利息)

References

“Entry #1856”, in 臺灣客語辭典 [Dictionary of Taiwan Hakka] (overall work in Chinese and Hakka), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2022.
周存 [Zhōu, Cún], editor (2023), “利息”, in 长汀话词典 CHANGTINGHUA CIDIAN [Dictionary of Changting Dialect] (overall work in Hakka and Mandarin), Guangzhou: 世界图书出版有限公司 [World Book Publishing Co., Ltd.], →ISBN, page 355.

Japanese

Kanji in this term
利	息
り Grade: 4	そく Grade: 3
on'yomi

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) りそく [rìsókú] (Heiban – [0])^[1]^[2]
IPA^(key): [ɾʲiso̞kɯ̟]

Noun

利(り)息(そく) • (risoku)

(finance) interest
- 1931, 岡本綺堂, 青蛙神:
  利息(りそく)などを取(と)ろうとするから、却(かえ)って大(おお)きい損(そん)をするのだ。
  Risoku nado o torō to suru kara, kaette ōkii son o suru no da.
  Once you take interest and so on into account, you actually end up losing a lot.

Synonyms

利子(りし) (rishi)

References

^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN

Vietnamese

chữ Hán Nôm in this term
利	息

Noun

利息

chữ Hán form of lợi tức

[DJR-1] Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

[NHK-2] NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN

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