泗

泗	U+6CD7, 泗 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6CD7

← 泖
[U+6CD6]

CJK Unified Ideographs

泘 →
[U+6CD8]

Translingual

Han character

泗 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 水田金 (EWC), four-corner 3610₀, composition ⿰氵四)

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 616, character 17
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17294
Dae Jaweon: page 1011, character 1
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1587, character 3
Unihan data for U+6CD7

Chinese

simp. and trad.		泗

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 泗
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Characters in the same phonetic series (四) (Zhengzhang, 2003)

	Old Chinese
訵	*l̥ʰids
四	*hljids
泗	*hljids
駟	*hljids
柶	*hljids
牭	*hljids
呬	*hrids

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *hljids): semantic 氵 (“water”) + phonetic 四 (OC *hljids).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): sì (si⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄙˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): si³ / sei³
Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁵sy

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: sì
  - Zhuyin: ㄙˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: sìh
  - Wade–Giles: ssŭ⁴
  - Yale: sz̀
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: syh
  - Palladius: сы (sy)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /sz̩⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: si³ / sei³
  - Yale: si / sei
  - Cantonese Pinyin: si³ / sei³
  - Guangdong Romanization: xi³ / séi³
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /siː³³/, /sei̯³³/
Wu
- (Northern: Shanghai)
  - Wugniu: ⁵sy
  - MiniDict: sy^去
  - Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ²sr
  - Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /sz̩³⁴/

Middle Chinese: sijH

Rime
Character	泗
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	心 (16)
Final (韻)	脂 (15)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	息利切
Baxter	sijH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/siɪ^H/
Pan Wuyun	/si^H/
Shao Rongfen	/sjɪ^H/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/si^H/
Li Rong	/si^H/
Wang Li	/si^H/
Bernhard Karlgren	/si^H/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	sì
Expected Cantonese Reflex	si³

Old Chinese
(Zhengzhang): /*hljids/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	泗
Reading #	1/1
No.	12023
Phonetic component	四
Rime group	至
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	四
Old Chinese	/*hljids/

Definitions

泗

Compounds

嵊泗列島 / 嵊泗列岛
悲泗淋漓
感激涕泗
楊泗將軍 / 杨泗将军
楊泗菩薩 / 杨泗菩萨
泗州 (Sìzhōu)
泗州戲 / 泗州戏
泗水 (Sìshuǐ)
泗河
泗澗溝 / 泗涧沟 (Sìjiàngōu, “Sijiangou”)
泗里街 (Sìlǐjiē)
消泗 (Xiāosì)
涕泗 (tìsì)
涕泗交下
涕泗交流
涕泗交頤 / 涕泗交颐
涕泗橫流 / 涕泗横流 (tìsì héngliú)
涕泗滂沱
涕泗縱橫 / 涕泗纵横

References

“泗”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Japanese

Kanji

泗

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

Go-on: し (shi)
Kan-on: し (shi)
Kun: なみだ (namida)、はなじる (hanajiru)

Korean

Hanja

泗 (eum 사 (sa))

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Vietnamese

Han character

泗: Hán Nôm readings: tứa

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