嘶

嘶 U+5636, 嘶 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5636 ← 嘵 [U+5635] CJK Unified Ideographs 嘷 → [U+5637]

Translingual

Han character

嘶 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+12, 15 strokes, cangjie input 口廿金中 (RTCL), four-corner 6202₁, composition ⿰口斯)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 207, character 14
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 4260
• Dae Jaweon: page 430, character 12
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 681, character 6
• Unihan data for U+5636

Chinese

simp. and trad.		嘶

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
嘶	*seː
撕	*seː, *se
斯	*se
廝	*se
蟴	*se
燍	*se
鐁	*se
凘	*se
澌	*ses

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *seː): semantic 口 (“mouth”) + phonetic 斯 (OC *se).

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): sī (si¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄙ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): sai¹ / si¹
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): sê
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): sir / su

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: sī
    • Zhuyin: ㄙ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: sih
    • Wade–Giles: ssŭ¹
    • Yale: sz̄
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: sy
    • Palladius: сы (sy)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sz̩⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong–Macau)
    • Jyutping: sai¹ / si¹
    • Yale: sāi / sī
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sai¹ / si¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: sei¹ / xi¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɐi̯⁵⁵/, /siː⁵⁵/

Note: si1 - variant.

• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: sê
    • Hakka Romanization System: se^ˊ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: se¹
    • Sinological IPA: /se²⁴/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sir
    • Tâi-lô: sir
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /sɯ³³/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: su
    • Tâi-lô: su
    • Phofsit Daibuun: sw
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /su⁴⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: sej

Rime
Character	嘶
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	心 (16)
Final (韻)	齊 (39)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	IV
Fanqie	先稽切
Baxter	sej
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/sei/
Pan Wuyun	/sei/
Shao Rongfen	/sɛi/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/sɛj/
Li Rong	/sei/
Wang Li	/siei/
Bernhard Karlgren	/siei/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xī
Expected Cantonese Reflex	sai1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[s]ˤe/

  (Zhengzhang): /*seː/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	嘶
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	sī
Middle Chinese	‹ sej ›
Old Chinese	/*[s]ˁe/
English	shriek
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	嘶
Reading #	1/1
No.	11993
Phonetic component	斯
Rime group	支
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	西
Old Chinese	/*seː/

Definitions

嘶

1. neighing of a horse
2. husky throated; gravel voiced

   嘶啞／嘶哑  ―  sīyǎ  ―  hoarse; husky

3. (of birds; insects) mournful murmur; whimpering

   天霜河白夜星稀，一雁聲嘶何處歸。 [MSC, trad.]
   天霜河白夜星稀，一雁声嘶何处归。 [MSC, simp.]

   From: Emperor Jianwen of Liang 梁簡文帝, 《夜望單飛雁》

   Tiān shuāng hé bái yè xīng xī, yī yàn shēng sī héchù guī. [Pinyin]

   (please add an English translation of this usage example)

4. (onomatopoeia, of various sounds) eg. sound of paper being shredded; sobbing

   老翁夜行無子攜，眼昏失腳非有擠；明日尋者爾瘦妻，手提幼女哭嘶嘶。 [MSC, trad.]
   老翁夜行无子携，眼昏失脚非有挤；明日寻者尔瘦妻，手提幼女哭嘶嘶。 [MSC, simp.]

   From: Mei Yaochen 梅堯臣, 《淘渠》

   Lǎowēng yè xíng wú zǐ xié, yǎn hūn shī jiǎo fēi yǒu jǐ; míngrì xún zhě ěr shòu qī, shǒu tí yòunǚ kū sīsī. [Pinyin]

   (please add an English translation of this usage example)

Compounds

• 人喊馬嘶 / 人喊马嘶
• 人語馬嘶 / 人语马嘶
• 力竭聲嘶 / 力竭声嘶 (lìjiéshēngsī)
• 嘶叫 (sījiào)
• 嘶吼
• 嘶啞 / 嘶哑 (sīyǎ)
• 嘶喊 (sīhǎn)
• 嘶喝
• 嘶嘶 (sīsī)
• 嘶噪
• 嘶聲 / 嘶声
• 嘶鳴 / 嘶鸣
• 老馬嘶風 / 老马嘶风
• 聲嘶 / 声嘶
• 聲嘶力竭 / 声嘶力竭 (shēngsīlìjié)
• 蟬嘶 / 蝉嘶
• 酸嘶
• 馬嘶 / 马嘶 (mǎsī)

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 嘶 – see 𤺊 (“(Cantonese) to hiccup”). (This character is a variant form of 𤺊).

References

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A00685
• “嘶”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Japanese

Kanji

See also:

Category:Japanese terms spelled with 嘶

嘶

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. to neigh, to whinny

Readings

• Go-on: さい (sai)
• Kan-on: せい (sei)
• Kan’yō-on: し (shi)
• Kun: いななく (inanaku, 嘶く)、いばえる (ibaeru, 嘶える)^{←いばへる (ibaferu, 嘶へる, historical)}、ころろく (kororoku, 嘶く)

Compounds

• 悲嘶(ひせい) (hisei)

Korean

Hanja

嘶 • (si) (hangeul 시, revised si, McCune–Reischauer si)

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Vietnamese

Han character

嘶: Hán Nôm readings: tê

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References

• Nom Foundation