窸

窸	U+7AB8, 窸 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7AB8

← 窷
[U+7AB7]

CJK Unified Ideographs

窹 →
[U+7AB9]

Translingual

Han character

窸 (Kangxi radical 116, 穴+11, 16 strokes, cangjie input 十金竹木心 (JCHDP), four-corner 3033₉, composition ⿱穴悉 or ⿱𥦓心)

faint sound, whisper

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 868, character 3
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 25631
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2740, character 20
Unihan data for U+7AB8

Chinese

trad.		窸
simp. ^#		窸

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
僁	siːd, sid
悉	*sid
蟋	sid, srid
窸	*sid

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): xī (xi¹)

(Zhuyin): ㄒㄧ
Cantonese (Jyutping): sik¹
Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): sih⁶

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: xī
  - Zhuyin: ㄒㄧ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: si
  - Wade–Giles: hsi¹
  - Yale: syī
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shi
  - Palladius: си (si)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: sik¹
  - Yale: sīk
  - Cantonese Pinyin: sik⁷
  - Guangdong Romanization: xig¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɪk̚⁵/
Puxian Min
- (Putian)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: sih⁶
  - Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: sih
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɬiʔ²¹/
- (Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: sih⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɬiʔ²/

Middle Chinese: sit

Rime
Character	窸
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	心 (16)
Final (韻)	質 (48)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	息七切
Baxter	sit
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/siɪt̚/
Pan Wuyun	/sit̚/
Shao Rongfen	/sjet̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/sit̚/
Li Rong	/siĕt̚/
Wang Li	/sĭĕt̚/
Bernhard Karlgren	/si̯ĕt̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xi
Expected Cantonese Reflex	sat¹

Old Chinese
(Zhengzhang): /*sid/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	窸
Reading #	1/1
No.	13342
Phonetic component	悉
Rime group	質
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	悉
Old Chinese	/*sid/

Definitions

窸

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Compounds

窸窣 (xīsū)
窸窸窣窣 (xīxīsūsū)

References

莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “窸”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 252.