誓

誓 U+8A93, 誓
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8A93
← 誒
[U+8A92] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 誔 →
[U+8A94]

Translingual

Han character

誓 (Kangxi radical 149, 言+7, 14 strokes, cangjie input 手中卜一口 (QLYMR), four-corner 52601, composition ⿱折言)

Derived characters

  • 𡂉

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1162, character 1
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 35514
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1627, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3973, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+8A93

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 誓
alternative forms 逝
䤱 ancient
𣂶 ancient
𣂯 ancient

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (折) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
晢 *ʔljeds, *ʔljed
狾 *ʔljeds
誓 *ɦljeds
逝 *ɦljeds
銴 *ɢljeds, *ɢʷleds
折 *l'eːl, *ʔljed, *ɦljed
娎 *hleːws, *qʰred
哳 *ʔr'eːd
踅 *sɢʷled
哲 *ʔl'ed
蜇 *ʔl'ed
悊 *ʔl'ed
嚞 *ted
喆 *ted
硩 *l̥ʰed, *l̥ʰeːɡ
浙 *ʔljed
晣 *ʔljed
焎 *hred

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ɦljeds): phonetic 折 (OC *l'eːl, *ʔljed, *ɦljed) + semantic 言 (“speech”).

Pronunciation

Note:
  • se5 - literary;
  • syor5/sya5 - vernacular.
Note:
  • sē/sī/sè - literary;
  • chōa - vernacular.
Note:
  • xi7 - literary;
  • soi6 - vernacular.
    Rime
    Character 誓
    Reading # 1/1
    Initial (聲) 常 (25)
    Final (韻) 祭 (35)
    Tone (調) Departing (H)
    Openness (開合) Open
    Division (等) III
    Fanqie 時制切
    Baxter dzyejH
    Reconstructions
    Zhengzhang
    Shangfang         		/d͡ʑiᴇiH/
    Pan
    Wuyun         		/d͡ʑiɛiH/
    Shao
    Rongfen         		/d͡ʑjæiH/
    Edwin
    Pulleyblank         		/d͡ʑiajH/
    Li
    Rong         		/ʑiɛiH/
    Wang
    Li         		/ʑĭɛiH/
    Bernhard
    Karlgren         		/ʑi̯ɛiH/
    Expected
    Mandarin
    Reflex         		shì
    Expected
    Cantonese
    Reflex         		sai6
    Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
    Character 誓
    Reading # 1/1
    Modern
    Beijing
    (Pinyin)         		shì
    Middle
    Chinese         		‹ dzyejH ›
    Old
    Chinese         		/*[d][a]t-s/
    English swear

    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 誓
    Reading # 1/1
    No. 16934
    Phonetic
    component         		折
    Rime
    group         		祭
    Rime
    subdivision         		2
    Corresponding
    MC rime         		逝
    Old
    Chinese         		/*ɦljeds/

    Definitions

    誓

    1. to swear; to vow; to pledge
      誓師／誓师  ―  shìshī  ―  to take a mass pledge before one's troops
    2. oath; pledge; vow
      宣誓  ―  xuānshì  ―  to take an oath

    Compounds

    References

    • “誓”, 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–
    • 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “誓”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 212.

    Japanese

    Kanji

    誓

    (Jōyō kanji)

    1. vow
    2. swear
    3. pledge

    Readings

    • Go-on: ぜ (ze)
    • Kan-on: せい (sei, Jōyō)
    • Kan’yō-on: ぜい (zei)
    • Kun: いましめる (imashimeru, 誓める)、ちかい (chikai, 誓い)←ちかひ (tikafi, 誓ひ, historical)、ちかう (chikau, 誓う, Jōyō)←ちかふ (tikafu, 誓ふ, historical)

    Etymology

    Kanji in this term
    誓
    うけい
    Grade: S
    kun'yomi
    Alternative spellings
    誓ひ
    祈
    祈ひ
    誓約
    祈請

    Continuative of 誓ふ (ukefu, “to vow”)

    Noun

    誓(うけい) • (ukei) ←うけひ (ukefi)?

    1. (archaic, Shinto, Japanese mythology) an "oath", a ritual in which whether something is true or false, right or wrong, good or evil, etc. is judged based on whether the stated outcome of an act comes true as expected
      アマテラスとスサノオの誓約(うけい)
      Amaterasu to Susanoo no ukei
      the oath of Amaterasu and Susanoo


    Korean

    Etymology

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    Pronunciation

    Hanja

    Wikisource

    誓 • (seo) (hangeul 서, revised seo, McCune–Reischauer sŏ, Yale se)

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    Vietnamese

    Han character

    誓: Hán Nôm readings: thệ, thề

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