覗

覗	U+8997, 覗 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8997

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[U+8996]

CJK Unified Ideographs

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[U+8998]

Translingual

Han character

覗 (Kangxi radical 147, 見+5, 12 strokes, cangjie input 尸口月山山 (SRBUU), four-corner 1661₀, composition ⿰司見)

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 1134, character 32
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 34839
Dae Jaweon: page 1601, character 2
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3667, character 14
Unihan data for U+8997

Chinese

trad.		覗
simp.		𬢊

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

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): sì (si⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄙˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): zi⁶
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): sù

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: sì
  - Zhuyin: ㄙˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: sìh
  - Wade–Giles: ssŭ⁴
  - Yale: sz̀
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: syh
  - Palladius: сы (sy)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /sz̩⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: zi⁶
  - Yale: jih
  - Cantonese Pinyin: dzi⁶
  - Guangdong Romanization: ji⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡siː²²/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sù
  - Tâi-lô: sù
  - Phofsit Daibuun: sux
  - IPA (Xiamen): /su²¹/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /su⁴¹/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /su²¹/
  - IPA (Taipei): /su¹¹/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /su²¹/

Middle Chinese: si, siH

Rime
Character	覗	覗
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	心 (16)	心 (16)
Final (韻)	之 (19)	之 (19)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	息兹切	相吏切
Baxter	si	siH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/sɨ/	/sɨ^H/
Pan Wuyun	/sɨ/	/sɨ^H/
Shao Rongfen	/sie/	/sie^H/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/sɨ/	/sɨ^H/
Li Rong	/siə/	/siə^H/
Wang Li	/sĭə/	/sĭə^H/
Bernhard Karlgren	/si/	/si^H/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	sī	sì
Expected Cantonese Reflex	si¹	si³

Old Chinese
(Zhengzhang): /*slɯ/, /*slɯs/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	覗	覗
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	11953	11957
Phonetic component	司	司
Rime group	之	之
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	思	笥
Old Chinese	/*slɯ/	/*slɯs/

Definitions

覗

(rare) to peek
- 近來明人小品，清代禁書，市價之高，決非窮讀書人所敢窺覗。 [MSC, trad.]
  近来明人小品，清代禁书，市价之高，决非穷读书人所敢窥𬢊。 [MSC, simp.]
  From: 1934 July 10, Lu Xun,《買〈小學大全〉記》
  Jìnlái Míngrén xiǎopǐn, Qīngdài jìnshū, shìjià zhī gāo, juéfēi qióng dúshūrén suǒ gǎn kuīsì. [Pinyin]
  Recently, Ming-era short essays and banned books during the Qing Dynasty have reached so a high market price that poor scholars dare not to peek at.

Japanese

Kanji

覗

(Hyōgai kanji)

peek

Readings

Go-on: し (shi)
Kan-on: し (shi)
Kun: のぞく (nozoku, 覗く)、うかがう (ukagau, 覗う)

Korean

Hanja

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

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