士大夫

Chinese

		scholar; warrior; knight	doctor
simp. and trad. (士大夫)		士	大夫

Etymology

(production team): Phono-semantic matching of Japanese スタッフ, from English staff.

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): shìdàfū

(Zhuyin): ㄕˋ ㄉㄚˋ ㄈㄨ
Cantonese (Jyutping): si⁶ daai⁶ fu¹

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: shìdàfū
  - Zhuyin: ㄕˋ ㄉㄚˋ ㄈㄨ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: shìhdàfu
  - Wade–Giles: shih⁴-ta⁴-fu¹
  - Yale: shr̀-dà-fū
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shyhdahfu
  - Palladius: шидафу (šidafu)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂʐ̩⁵¹⁻⁵³ tä⁵¹ fu⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: si⁶ daai⁶ fu¹
  - Yale: sih daaih fū
  - Cantonese Pinyin: si⁶ daai⁶ fu¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: xi⁶ dai⁶ fu¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /siː²² taːi̯²² fuː⁵⁵/

Middle Chinese: dzriX dajH|daH pju

Rime
Character	士	大	大	夫
Reading #	1/1	1/2	2/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	崇 (20)	定 (7)	定 (7)	幫 (1)
Final (韻)	之 (19)	泰 (25)	歌 (94)	虞 (24)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)	Departing (H)	Departing (H)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open	Open	Closed
Division (等)	III	I	I	III
Fanqie	鉏里切	徒蓋切	唐佐切	甫無切
Baxter	dzriX	dajH	daH	pju
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/d͡ʒɨ^X/	/dɑi^H/	/dɑ^H/	/pɨo/
Pan Wuyun	/ɖ͡ʐɨ^X/	/dɑi^H/	/dɑ^H/	/pio/
Shao Rongfen	/d͡ʒie^X/	/dɑi^H/	/dɑ^H/	/pio/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɖ͡ʐɨ^X/	/daj^H/	/da^H/	/puə̆/
Li Rong	/d͡ʒiə^X/	/dɑi^H/	/dɑ^H/	/pio/
Wang Li	/d͡ʒĭə^X/	/dɑi^H/	/dɑ^H/	/pĭu/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ɖ͡ʐʱi^X/	/dʱɑi^H/	/dʱɑ^H/	/pi̯u/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zhì	dài	duò	fū
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zi⁶	daai⁶	do⁶	fu¹

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*[m-s-]rəʔ lˤat-s|lˤa[t]-s p(r)a/

(Zhengzhang): /*zrɯʔ daːds pa/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	士	大	大	夫
Reading #	1/1	1/2	2/2	1/3
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	shì	dà	dà	fū
Middle Chinese	‹ dzri^X ›	‹ da^H ›	‹ daj^H ›	‹ pju ›
Old Chinese	/*[m-s-]rəʔ/	/*lˁat-s/ (MC F!)	/*lˁa[t]-s/	/*p(r)a/
English	officer; gentleman	big	big	man
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	士	大	大	夫
Reading #	1/1	1/2	2/2	1/2
No.	11511	1934	1939	3274
Phonetic component	士	大	大	夫
Rime group	之	祭	祭	魚
Rime subdivision	0	1	1	0
Corresponding MC rime	士	䭾	大	跗
Old Chinese	/*zrɯʔ/	/*daːds/	/*daːds/	/*pa/

Noun

士大夫

(archaic, historical, Han to Qing dynasties) scholar-official; literati
(Mainland China, television, fandom slang) production team (of a Japanese TV show)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
士	大	夫
し Grade: 5	たい Grade: 1	ふ Grade: 4
on'yomi

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ɕita̠iɸɯ̟]

Noun

士(し)大(たい)夫(ふ) • (shitaifu)

(archaic, historical, Han to Qing dynasties) scholar-official; literati

Korean

Hanja in this term
士	大	夫

Noun

士大夫 • (sadaebu) (hangeul 사대부)

hanja form^? of 사대부 (“scholar-official; literati”)

Vietnamese

chữ Hán Nôm in this term
士	大	夫

Noun

士大夫

chữ Hán form of sĩ đại phu (“scholar-official; literati”)