蟋

蟋 U+87CB, 蟋 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-87CB ← 蟊 [U+87CA] CJK Unified Ideographs 蟌 → [U+87CC]

Translingual

Han character

蟋 (Kangxi radical 142, 虫+11, 17 strokes, cangjie input 中戈竹木心 (LIHDP), four-corner 5213₉, composition ⿰虫悉)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1096, character 15
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33550
• Dae Jaweon: page 1560, character 32
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2886, character 7
• Unihan data for U+87CB

Chinese

trad.		蟋
simp. #		蟋

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
僁	*siːd, *sid
悉	*sid
蟋	*sid, *srid
窸	*sid

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xī (xi¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): sik¹
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): sih⁶
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): siak / sek / sih

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xī
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: si
    • Wade–Giles: hsi¹
    • Yale: syī
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shi
    • Palladius: си (si)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: sik¹
    • Yale: sīk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sik⁷
    • Guangdong Romanization: xig¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɪk̚⁵/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: sih⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɬiʔ¹/
  • (Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: sih⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɬiʔ²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: siak
    • Tâi-lô: siak
    • Phofsit Daibuun: siag
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /siak̚⁵/
  • (Hokkien: variant in Taiwan, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sek
    • Tâi-lô: sik
    • Phofsit Daibuun: seg
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung, Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /siɪk̚³²/
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sih
    • Tâi-lô: sih
    • Phofsit Daibuun: siq
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /siʔ³²/

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• Middle Chinese: sit, srit

Rime
Character	蟋	蟋
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	心 (16)	生 (21)
Final (韻)	質 (48)	櫛 (51)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	息七切	所櫛切
Baxter	sit	srit
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/siɪt̚/	/ʃɪt̚/
Pan Wuyun	/sit̚/	/ʃɪt̚/
Shao Rongfen	/sjet̚/	/ʃiet̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/sit̚/	/ʂit̚/
Li Rong	/siĕt̚/	/ʃiĕt̚/
Wang Li	/sĭĕt̚/	/ʃĭet̚/
Bernhard Karlgren	/si̯ĕt̚/	/ʂi̯æt̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xi	she
Expected Cantonese Reflex	sat1	sat1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*srit/

  (Zhengzhang): /*sid/, /*srid/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	蟋
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	xī
Middle Chinese	‹ srit ›
Old Chinese	/*srit/
English	蟋蟀 cricket
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	蟋	蟋
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	13340	13343
Phonetic component	悉	悉
Rime group	質	質
Rime subdivision	1	1
Corresponding MC rime	悉	瑟
Old Chinese	/*sid/	/*srid/
Notes	見爾雅說文作悉

Definitions

蟋

1. Only used in 蟋蟀 (xīshuài).

Compounds

• 蟋蜴
• 蟋蟀 (xīshuài)
• 蟋蟀草
• 鬥蟋蟀／斗蟋蟀

 

References

• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “蟋”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 252.

Japanese

Kanji

蟋

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: しち (shichi)
• Kan-on: しつ (shitsu)

Korean

Hanja

蟋 • (sil) (hangeul 실, revised sil, McCune–Reischauer sil, Yale sil)

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Vietnamese

Han character

蟋: Hán Nôm readings: tất

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