筮

筮 U+7B6E, 筮 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7B6E ← 筭 [U+7B6D] CJK Unified Ideographs 筯 → [U+7B6F]

Translingual

Han character

筮 (Kangxi radical 118, 竹+7, 13 strokes, cangjie input 竹一人人 (HMOO), four-corner 8810₈, composition ⿱𥫗巫)

Derived characters

• 噬, 𢶅, 澨, 𨼹, 遾, 㭀, 𥰰, 簭, 𥵼

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 885, character 23
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 26070
• Dae Jaweon: page 1314, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 2972, character 4
• Unihan data for U+7B6E

Chinese

trad.		筮
simp. #		筮
alternative forms		簭 𥰰 𥷂 𥷣

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 筮
Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

	Old Chinese
噬	*djads
筮	*djads
簭	*djads
澨	*djads
遾	*djads

Ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意): 竹 (“bamboo”) + 巫 (“shaman”) + 𠬞 (“two hands”) – to divine using yarrow stalks or some kind of tools made of bamboo.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shì (shi⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄕˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): sai⁶
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): se⁵
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): sē

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: shì
    • Zhuyin: ㄕˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: shìh
    • Wade–Giles: shih⁴
    • Yale: shr̀
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shyh
    • Palladius: ши (ši)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂʐ̩⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: sai⁶
    • Yale: saih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sai⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: sei⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɐi̯²²/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: se⁵
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɬe¹¹/
  • (Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: se⁵
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɬe²¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sē
    • Tâi-lô: sē
    • Phofsit Daibuun: se
    • IPA (Xiamen): /se²²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /se⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /se²²/
    • IPA (Taipei): /se³³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /se³³/

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• Middle Chinese: dzyejH

Rime
Character	筮
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

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[d][e][t]-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*djads/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	筮
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	shì
Middle Chinese	‹ dzyejH ›
Old Chinese	/*[d][e][t]-s/
English	divine by Achillea stalks
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	筮
Reading #	1/1
No.	11658
Phonetic component	筮
Rime group	祭
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	逝
Old Chinese	/*djads/

Definitions

筮

1. to divine using yarrow stalks
2. divination (using yarrow stalks)
3. divination with stalks of plants
4. divining rod

Compounds

• 卜筮 (bǔshì)
• 占筮 (zhānshì)
• 筮仕 (shìshì)
• 龜筮 / 龟筮

References

• “筮”, 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–
• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “筮”, 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

See also:

Category:Japanese terms spelled with 筮

筮

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. fortunetelling; divination
2. divination sticks​; fortune stick

Readings

• Go-on: ぜ (ze)
• Kan-on: せい (sei)
• Kan’yō-on: ぜい (zei)
• Kun: うらなう (uranau, 筮う)、めどぎ (medogi)

Compounds

• 筮竹(ぜいちく) (zeichiku)
• 卜筮(ぼくぜい) (bokuzei)

Etymology

Kanji in this term
筮
めどき Hyōgai
kun'yomi

Alternative spelling
蓍

Kanji in this term
筮
めどぎ Hyōgai
kun'yomi

Alternative spelling
蓍

Noun

筮(めどき) or 筮(めどぎ) • (medoki or medogi) 

1. divination sticks, initially made of Lespedeza cuneata stalks, later of bamboo

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

筮: Hán Nôm readings: vầu, phệ, thệ

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