蓍

蓍	U+84CD, 蓍 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-84CD

← 蓌
[U+84CC]

CJK Unified Ideographs

蓎 →
[U+84CE]

Translingual

Han character

蓍 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+10, 16 strokes, cangjie input 廿十心日 (TJPA), four-corner 4460₁, composition ⿱艹耆)

milfoil, plant used in divination

Derived characters

𭋦

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 1051, character 16
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31655
Dae Jaweon: page 1513, character 11
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3260, character 9
Unihan data for U+84CD

Chinese

trad.		蓍
simp. ^#		蓍

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
稽	kiː, kʰiːʔ
詣	*ŋɡiːs
栺	ŋɡiːs, kji
榰	*klje
脂	*kji
鴲	kji, kjis
指	*kjiʔ
旨	*kjiʔ
恉	*kjiʔ
嗜	*ɡjis
蓍	*qʰlji
鰭	*ɡri
耆	*ɡri
鮨	*ɡri
鬐	*ɡri

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): shī (shi¹)

(Zhuyin): ㄕ
Cantonese (Jyutping): si¹
Eastern Min (BUC): sĭ
Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): si¹
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): si

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: shī
  - Zhuyin: ㄕ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: shih
  - Wade–Giles: shih¹
  - Yale: shr̄
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shy
  - Palladius: ши (ši)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂʐ̩⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: si¹
  - Yale: sī
  - Cantonese Pinyin: si¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: xi¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /siː⁵⁵/
Eastern Min
- (Fuzhou)
  - Bàng-uâ-cê: sĭ
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /si⁵⁵/
Puxian Min
- (Putian)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: si¹
  - Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: si
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɬi⁵³³/
- (Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: si¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɬi⁵⁴⁴/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: si
  - Tâi-lô: si
  - Phofsit Daibuun: sy
  - IPA (Xiamen): /si⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /si³³/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /si⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Taipei): /si⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /si⁴⁴/

Middle Chinese: syij

Rime
Character	蓍
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	書 (26)
Final (韻)	脂 (15)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	式之切
Baxter	syij
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɕiɪ/
Pan Wuyun	/ɕi/
Shao Rongfen	/ɕjɪ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɕi/
Li Rong	/ɕi/
Wang Li	/ɕi/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ɕi/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	shī
Expected Cantonese Reflex	si¹

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*s-kij/

(Zhengzhang): /*qʰlji/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	蓍
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	shī
Middle Chinese	‹ syij ›
Old Chinese	/*s-kij/
English	Achillea (?)
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	蓍
Reading #	1/1
No.	17330
Phonetic component	旨
Rime group	脂
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime
Old Chinese	/*qʰlji/

Definitions

蓍

yarrow; Achillea millefolium

Compounds

不待蓍龜 / 不待蓍龟 (bùdàishīguī)
刈蓍遺簪 / 刈蓍遗簪
揲蓍
蓍簪不忘
蓍草 (shīcǎo)
蓍蔡
蓍龜 / 蓍龟 (shīguī)

References

“蓍”, 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–
William Campbell (1913) A dictionary of the Amoy vernacular spoken throughout the prefectures of Chin-Chiu, Chiang-Chiu and Formosa (in Hokkien), 8th edition, Tainan: Taiwan Church Press, published 1961, →OCLC, page 607.
莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “蓍”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 210.

Japanese

Kanji

蓍

(Hyōgai kanji)

lespedeza

Readings

Go-on: し (shi)
Kan-on: し (shi)
Kun: めどぎ (medogi, 蓍)

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
蓍
めど Hyōgai

Noun

蓍(めど) • (medo)

(archaic) short for 蓍萩 (medohagi, “Lespedeza juncea”)
(archaic) short for 蓍 (medoki, “divination sticks”)
(archaic) (by extension) the practice of divination with divination sticks or lespedeza stalks

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
蓍
めどき Hyōgai
kun'yomi

Alternative spelling
筮

Kanji in this term
蓍
めどぎ Hyōgai
kun'yomi

Alternative spelling
筮

Noun

蓍(めどき) or 蓍(めどぎ) • (medoki or medogi)

divination sticks, initially made of lespedeza stalks, used for hexagram divination

Korean

Hanja

蓍 (eum 시 (si))

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