祠

祠	U+7960, 祠 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7960

← 祟
[U+795F]

CJK Unified Ideographs

祡 →
[U+7961]

Translingual

Han character

祠 (Kangxi radical 113, 示+5, 10 strokes, cangjie input 戈火尸一口 (IFSMR), four-corner 3722₀, composition ⿰礻司)

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 842, character 6
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 24676
Dae Jaweon: page 1262, character 4
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2395, character 1
Unihan data for U+7960

Chinese

simp. and trad.		祠

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
司	*slɯ
伺	slɯ, slɯs
覗	slɯ, slɯs
笥	slɯ, slɯs
詞	*ljɯ
祠	*ljɯ
柌	*ljɯ
嗣	*ljɯs
孠	*ljɯs
飼	*ljɯs
呞	*hljɯ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ljɯ) and ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意): semantic 礻 (“divinity”) + phonetic 司 (OC *slɯ).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): cí (ci²)

(Zhuyin): ㄘˊ
Cantonese
(Guangzhou–Hong Kong, Jyutping): ci⁴

(Taishan, Wiktionary): lhu³
Hakka
(Sixian, PFS): chhṳ̀

(Hailu, HRS): cii

(Meixian, Guangdong): ci²
Eastern Min (BUC): sṳ̀
Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): so² / ser²
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): sîr / sû / sî

(Teochew, Peng'im): se⁵
Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁶zy

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: cí
  - Zhuyin: ㄘˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: cíh
  - Wade–Giles: tzʻŭ²
  - Yale: tsź
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tsyr
  - Palladius: цы (cy)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰz̩³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: ci⁴
  - Yale: chìh
  - Cantonese Pinyin: tsi⁴
  - Guangdong Romanization: qi⁴
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰiː²¹/
- (Taishanese, Taicheng)
  - Wiktionary: lhu³
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɬu²²/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chhṳ̀
  - Hakka Romanization System: cii^ˇ
  - Hagfa Pinyim: ci²
  - Sinological IPA: /t͡sʰɨ¹¹/
- (Hailu, incl. Zhudong)
  - Hakka Romanization System: cii
  - Sinological IPA: /t͡sʰɨ⁵⁵/
- (Meixian)
  - Guangdong: ci²
  - Sinological IPA: /t͡sʰz̩¹¹/
Eastern Min
- (Fuzhou)
  - Bàng-uâ-cê: sṳ̀
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /sy⁵³/
Puxian Min
- (Putian, Jiangkou, Nanri)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: so²
  - Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: seó
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɬo¹³/
- (Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: so²
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɬo²⁴/
- (Youyang)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: so²
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /θo²⁴/
- (Fengting)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: ser²
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɬɤ²⁴/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sîr
  - Tâi-lô: sîr
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /sɯ²⁴/
- (Hokkien: General Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sû
  - Tâi-lô: sû
  - Phofsit Daibuun: suu
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /su²³/
  - IPA (Taipei, Xiamen): /su²⁴/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /su¹³/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sî
  - Tâi-lô: sî
  - Phofsit Daibuun: sii
  - IPA (Xiamen): /si²⁴/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /si¹³/

Note:

sîr/sû - literary;
sî - vernacular.

(Teochew)
- Peng'im: se⁵
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: sṳ̂
- Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɯ⁵⁵/

Wu
- (Northern: Shanghai)
  - Wugniu: ⁶zy
  - MiniDict: zy^去
  - Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ³zr
  - Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /zz̩²³/

Middle Chinese: zi

Rime
Character	祠
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	邪 (17)
Final (韻)	之 (19)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	似兹切
Baxter	zi
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/zɨ/
Pan Wuyun	/zɨ/
Shao Rongfen	/zie/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/zɨ/
Li Rong	/ziə/
Wang Li	/zĭə/
Bernhard Karlgren	/zi/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	sí
Expected Cantonese Reflex	ci⁴

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*sə.lə/

(Zhengzhang): /*ljɯ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	祠
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	cí
Middle Chinese	‹ zi ›
Old Chinese	/*sə.lə/
English	sacrifice
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	祠
Reading #	1/1
No.	11959
Phonetic component	司
Rime group	之
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	詞
Old Chinese	/*ljɯ/

Definitions

祠

ancestral temple
(literary) to offer sacrifice
(literary) spring sacrifice

Compounds

仁祠
叢祠 / 丛祠
史祠 (Shǐcí)
奉祠
宗祠 (zōngcí)
家祠 (jiācí)
淫祠
生祠 (shēngcí)
祠兵
祠堂 (cítáng)
祠宇
祠官
禖祠
行祠
錢王祠 / 钱王祠 (Qiánwángcí)
雷家祠 (Léijiācí)
龍祠 / 龙祠

References

“祠”, 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–
李如龙 [Li, Ru-long], 刘福铸 [Liu, Fu-zhu], 吴华英 [Wu, Hua-ying], 黄国城 [Huang, Guo-cheng] (2019) “祠”, in 莆仙方言调查报告 [Investigation Report on Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 164.

Japanese

Kanji

祠

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

Go-on: じ (ji)
Kan-on: し (shi)
Kun: ほこら (hokora, 祠)、まつる (matsuru, 祠る)

Compounds

祠宇(しう) (shiu)
祠堂(しどう) (shidō)

Etymology

Kanji in this term
祠
ほこら Hyōgai
kun'yomi

Alternative spelling
叢祠

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) ほこら [hòkórá] (Heiban – [0])
(Tokyo) ほこら [hòkóráꜜ] (Odaka – [3])
IPA^(key): [ho̞ko̞ɾa̠]

Noun

祠(ほこら) • (hokora)

a small shrine
Synonym: 神庫 (jinko)

Korean

Hanja

祠 • (sa) (hangeul 사, revised sa, McCune–Reischauer sa, Yale sa)

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Vietnamese

Han character

祠: Hán Nôm readings: từ, thờ, tờ

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