耜

耜 U+801C, 耜 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-801C ← 耛 [U+801B] CJK Unified Ideographs 耝 → [U+801D]

Translingual

Han character

耜 (Kangxi radical 127, 耒+5, 11 strokes, cangjie input 手木口中口 (QDRLR), four-corner 5797₇, composition ⿰耒㠯)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 963, character 7
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 28915
• Dae Jaweon: page 1411, character 10
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2772, character 1
• Unihan data for U+801C

Chinese

trad.		耜
simp. #		耜
alternative forms		枱 㭒 䎣 𦓨 𣏌 枱 㭒 䎣 𦓨 𣏌 𦓵 梩

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
似	*ljɯʔ
姒	*ljɯʔ
耜	*ljɯʔ
佀	*ljɯʔ
以	*lɯʔ
苡	*lɯʔ
苢	*lɯʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ljɯʔ): semantic 耒 (“plow”) + phonetic 㠯.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): sì (si⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄙˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zi⁶ / ci⁵

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• 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 / ci⁵
    • Yale: jih / chíh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzi⁶ / tsi⁵
    • Guangdong Romanization: ji⁶ / qi⁵
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡siː²²/, /t͡sʰiː¹³/

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• Middle Chinese: ziX

Rime
Character	耜
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	邪 (17)
Final (韻)	之 (19)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	詳里切
Baxter	ziX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/zɨX/
Pan Wuyun	/zɨX/
Shao Rongfen	/zieX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/zɨX/
Li Rong	/ziəX/
Wang Li	/zĭəX/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ziX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	sì
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zi6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*sə-ləʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ljɯʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	耜
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	sì
Middle Chinese	‹ ziX ›
Old Chinese	/*sə-ləʔ/
English	plowshare; to plow
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	耜
Reading #	1/1
No.	14927
Phonetic component	以
Rime group	之
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	似
Old Chinese	/*ljɯʔ/

Definitions

耜

1. (archaic) plowshare

Compounds

• 耒耜 (lěisì)
• 耒耜之勤
• 良耜

Japanese

Kanji

耜

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): し (shi)
• Kun: すき (suki)

Vietnamese

Han character

耜: Hán Nôm readings: trĩ, tự

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References

• Nom Foundation