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U+65AF, 斯
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-65AF

[U+65AE]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+65B0]

Translingual

Han character

(Kangxi radical 69, +8, 12 strokes, cangjie input 廿金竹一中 (TCHML), four-corner 42821, composition )

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 480, character 4
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13563
  • Dae Jaweon: page 839, character 4
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2025, character 6
  • Unihan data for U+65AF
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Chinese

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Glyph origin

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A sieve next to an axe; its original meaning was "to divide/break with an axe" and, according to Xu Shen, it was synonym of 析. The original meaning is still preserved in the character 撕.

Etymology 1

Cognate with (OC *sʰeʔ, “this”) (Schuessler, 2007).

STEDT compares (OC *sʰeʔ) and (OC *se) to Proto-Tani *si (this).

Pronunciation



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Definitions

  1. (Classical) this; these; here
    [MSC, trad.]
    [MSC, simp.]
    shēng yú , zhǎng yú [Pinyin]
    to have been born and raised here
  2. (Classical) then; thus
  3. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) emphatic particle (clarification of this definition is needed)
  4. a surname
  5. Used in transcription.
    洛維尼亞洛维尼亚   luòwéiníyà   Slovenia
    巴基   Bājītǎn   Pakistan
    拉各   Lāgè   Lagos
          Moscow
    堪薩堪萨   Kānsà   Kansas
       lín   Muslim
    法西   fǎxī   fascist
    拉夫   lāfū   Slav
          disco
    1. (Can we verify(+) this sense?) (Mainland China) short for 斯大林 (Sīdàlín, “Stalin”)

Usage notes

  • In modern Chinese, this character is almost entirely used for phonetic translations. The character mainly represents the phoneme /s/ or /θ/ in word-final and preconsonantal positions.

Compounds

Etymology 2

Pronunciation



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Definitions

  1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) Original form of (, “to lop off”).

References

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