蟋

蟋	U+87CB, 蟋 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-87CB

← 蟊
[U+87CA]

CJK Unified Ideographs

蟌 →
[U+87CC]

Translingual

Han character

蟋 (Kangxi radical 142, 虫+11, 17 strokes, cangjie input 中戈竹木心 (LIHDP), four-corner 5213₉, composition ⿰虫悉)

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 1096, character 15
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33550
Dae Jaweon: page 1560, character 32
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2886, character 7
Unihan data for U+87CB

Chinese

trad.		蟋
simp. ^#		蟋

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
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): siak / sek / sih

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/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: siak
  - Tâi-lô: siak
  - Phofsit Daibuun: siag
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /siak̚⁵/
- (Hokkien: variant in Taiwan, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sek
  - Tâi-lô: sik
  - Phofsit Daibuun: seg
  - IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung, Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /siɪk̚³²/
- (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sih
  - Tâi-lô: sih
  - Phofsit Daibuun: siq
  - IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /siʔ³²/

Middle Chinese: sit, srit

Rime
Character	蟋	蟋
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	心 (16)	生 (21)
Final (韻)	質 (48)	櫛 (51)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	息七切	所櫛切
Baxter	sit	srit
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/siɪt̚/	/ʃɪt̚/
Pan Wuyun	/sit̚/	/ʃɪt̚/
Shao Rongfen	/sjet̚/	/ʃiet̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/sit̚/	/ʂit̚/
Li Rong	/siĕt̚/	/ʃiĕt̚/
Wang Li	/sĭĕt̚/	/ʃĭet̚/
Bernhard Karlgren	/si̯ĕt̚/	/ʂi̯æt̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xi	she
Expected Cantonese Reflex	sat¹	sat¹

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*srit/

(Zhengzhang): /*sid/, /*srid/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	蟋
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	xī
Middle Chinese	‹ srit ›
Old Chinese	/*srit/
English	蟋蟀 cricket
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	蟋	蟋
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	13340	13343
Phonetic component	悉	悉
Rime group	質	質
Rime subdivision	1	1
Corresponding MC rime	悉	瑟
Old Chinese	/*sid/	/*srid/
Notes	見爾雅說文作悉

Definitions

蟋

only used in 蟋蟀 (xīshuài)

Compounds

蟋蜴
蟋蟀 (xīshuài)
蟋蟀草
鬥蟋蟀 / 斗蟋蟀

References

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

Japanese

Kanji

蟋

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

Go-on: しち (shichi)
Kan-on: しつ (shitsu)

Korean

Hanja

蟋 • (sil) (hangeul 실, revised sil, McCune–Reischauer sil, Yale sil)

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Vietnamese

Han character

蟋: Hán Nôm readings: tất

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