卌

See also: ᚓ

卌	U+534C, 卌 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-534C

← 卋
[U+534B]

CJK Unified Ideographs

卍 →
[U+534D]

Translingual

Han character

卌 (Kangxi radical 24, 十+3, 5 strokes, cangjie input 廿廿 (TT) or 難難廿廿 (XXTT), four-corner 4400₀, composition ⿻卄〢(GHJ) or ⿻卅丨(TKV) or ⿻川十(TKV) or ⿻廾〢(TKV))

Derived characters

𢦫, 𬻜, 𬻝, 𭴿, 無, 𭴾, 舞, 橆, 𩡧, 𩆕, 𤽧, 𫉰, 𱸩

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 156, character 14
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2712
Dae Jaweon: page 355, character 4
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 60, character 2
Unihan data for U+534C

Chinese

trad.		卌
simp. ^#		卌
alternative forms		𠦜𠦌

**Chinese cardinal numbers**
< 39	40	41 >
Cardinal : 卌 (xì)

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 卌
Shang	Western Zhou	Warring States
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Chu slip and silk script

十 (shí, “10”), repeated four times.

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): xì (xi⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄒㄧˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): se³
Eastern Min (BUC): siék
Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): si⁴
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): siap / siak

(Teochew, Peng'im): siab⁴

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: xì
  - Zhuyin: ㄒㄧˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: sì
  - Wade–Giles: hsi⁴
  - Yale: syì
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shih
  - Palladius: си (si)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: se³
  - Yale: se
  - Cantonese Pinyin: se³
  - Guangdong Romanization: sé³
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɛː³³/
Eastern Min
- (Fuzhou)
  - Bàng-uâ-cê: siék
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /siɛʔ²⁴/
Puxian Min
- (Putian, Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: si⁴
  - Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: si̍
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɬi⁴²/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: siap
  - Tâi-lô: siap
  - Phofsit Daibuun: siab
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /siap̚⁵/
  - IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /siap̚³²/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: siak
  - Tâi-lô: siak
  - Phofsit Daibuun: siag
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /siak̚⁵/

Note: siak - only for 卌九.

- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: siab⁴
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: siap
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /siap̚²/

Middle Chinese: sip

Rime
Character	卌
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	心 (16)
Final (韻)	緝 (141)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	先立切
Baxter	sip
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/siɪp̚/
Pan Wuyun	/sip̚/
Shao Rongfen	/sjep̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/sip̚/
Li Rong	/siəp̚/
Wang Li	/sĭĕp̚/
Bernhard Karlgren	/si̯əp̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xi
Expected Cantonese Reflex	sap¹

Old Chinese
(Zhengzhang): /*sub/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	卌
Reading #	1/1
No.	13425
Phonetic component
Rime group	緝
Rime subdivision	3
Corresponding MC rime	𩎕
Old Chinese	/*sub/

Definitions

卌

forty

Synonyms

四十 (sìshí)

Compounds

References

“卌”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2025.
莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “卌”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 254.

Japanese

Kanji

卌

(Hyōgai kanji)

(archaic) forty

Readings

On (unclassified): しゅう (shū)
Kun: よんじゅう (yonjū)

Korean

Hanja

卌 (eumhun 마흔 십 (maheun sip))
卌 (eumhun 사십 십 (sasip sip))

forty; fortieth

Vietnamese

Han character

卌: Hán Nôm readings: tấp

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