螽斯

Chinese

		(grasshopper); Gompsocleis mikado	phonetic; this
simp. and trad. (螽斯)		螽	斯

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): zhōngsī

(Zhuyin): ㄓㄨㄥㄙ
Cantonese (Jyutping): zung¹ si¹
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): chiong-su

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: zhōngsī
  - Zhuyin: ㄓㄨㄥㄙ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: jhongsih
  - Wade–Giles: chung¹-ssŭ¹
  - Yale: jūng-sz̄
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jongsy
  - Palladius: чжунсы (čžunsy)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʊŋ⁵⁵ sz̩⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: zung¹ si¹
  - Yale: jūng sī
  - Cantonese Pinyin: dzung¹ si¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: zung¹ xi¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʊŋ⁵⁵ siː⁵⁵/
  - Homophones:
    ^edit
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    宗師 / 宗师
    螽斯
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chiong-su
  - Tâi-lô: tsiong-su
  - Phofsit Daibuun: ciongsw
  - IPA (Xiamen): /t͡siɔŋ⁴⁴⁻²² su⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡siɔŋ³³ su³³/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡siɔŋ⁴⁴⁻²² su⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Taipei): /t͡siɔŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ su⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡siɔŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ su⁴⁴/

Middle Chinese: tsyuwng sje

Rime
Character	螽	斯
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	章 (23)	心 (16)
Final (韻)	東 (2)	支 (11)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	職戎切	息移切
Baxter	tsyuwng	sje
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡ɕɨuŋ/	/siᴇ/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡ɕiuŋ/	/siɛ/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡ɕiuŋ/	/sjɛ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/cuwŋ/	/siə̆/
Li Rong	/t͡ɕiuŋ/	/sie/
Wang Li	/t͡ɕĭuŋ/	/sǐe/
Bernhard Karlgren	/t͡ɕi̯uŋ/	/sie̯/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zhōng	sī
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zung¹	si¹

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*tuŋ [s]e/

(Zhengzhang): /*tjuŋ se/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	螽	斯	斯
Reading #	1/1	1/3	2/3
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	zhōng	sī	sī
Middle Chinese	‹ tsyuwng ›	‹ sje ›	‹ sje ›
Old Chinese	/*tuŋ/	/*[s]e/	/*[s]e/
English	tsyuwng.sje locust	split (v.)	this
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	螽	斯
Reading #	1/1	1/1
No.	2429	11995
Phonetic component	冬	斯
Rime group	終	支
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	終	斯
Old Chinese	/*tjuŋ/	/*se/
Notes		朱駿聲雲斯爲會意字，非其聲

Noun

螽斯

katydid; bush-cricket (Tettigoniidae)
- 螽斯羽、詵詵兮。宜爾子孫、振振兮。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad.]
  螽斯羽、诜诜兮。宜尔子孙、振振兮。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, simp.]
  From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11^th – 7^th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version
  Zhōngsī yǔ, shēnshēn xī. Yí ěr zǐsūn, zhènzhèn xī. [Pinyin]
  Ye winged bush-crickets, how harmoniously ye collect together! Right is it that your descendants should be multitudinous!

Synonyms

絡緯 / 络纬 (luòwěi)
蚣蝑 (zhōngxū)
蚣䗥 / 蚣𰲯 (zhōngzōng)
蚣𧐱 / 蚣𬟺 (zhōngzōng)
𧌻蝑 (sōngxū)
蜙蝑 (sōngxū)
𧌻𧐱 / 𧌻𬟺 (sōngzōng)
蜙䗥 / 蜙𰲯 (sōngzōng)
𧐱蝑 / 𬟺蝑 (cóngxū)
䗥蝑 / 𰲯蝑 (zōngxū)
𧐍𧑓 (chōngshǔ)

Hyponyms

紡織娘／纺织娘 (fǎngzhīniáng)

Derived terms

螽斯之徵 / 螽斯之征
螽斯之德
螽斯之慶 / 螽斯之庆
螽斯振羽

Japanese

Kanji in this term
螽	斯
きりぎりす
Hyōgai	Jinmeiyō
irregular

For pronunciation and definitions of 螽斯 – see the following entry.

【螽蟖きりぎりす】

[noun] Japanese katydid, Gampsocleis buergeri

[noun] katydid, an cricket of the family Tettigoniidae

[noun] (archaic) synonym of 蟋蟀 (koorogi, “cricket”)

Alternative spellings
蟋蟀, 蛬, キリギリス

(This term, 螽斯, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)