卌

See also: ᚓ

卌 U+534C, 卌 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-534C ← 卋 [U+534B] CJK Unified Ideographs 卍まんじ → [U+534D]

Translingual

Han character

卌 (Kangxi radical 24, 十じゅう+3, 5 strokes, cangjie input 廿にじゅう廿にじゅう (TT) or 難なん難なん廿にじゅう廿にじゅう (XXTT), four-corner 4400₀, composition ⿻卄〢(GHJ) or ⿻卅丨(TKV) or ⿻川かわ十じゅう(TKV) or ⿻廾〢(TKV))

Derived characters

• 𩆕, 無む, 舞まい, 橆

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 156, character 14
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2712
• Dae Jaweon: page 355, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 60, character 2
• Unihan data for U+534C

Chinese

trad.		卌
simp. #		卌
alternative forms		𠦜 𠦌

Chinese cardinal numbers

<  39	40	41  >
Cardinal : 卌 (xì)

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 卌
Shang	Western Zhou	Warring States
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Chu slip and silk script

十じゅう (shí, “10”), repeated four times.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xì (xi⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): se³
• Eastern Min (BUC): siék
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): si⁴
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): siap / siak

  (Teochew, Peng'im): siab⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xì
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: sì
    • Wade–Giles: hsi⁴
    • Yale: syì
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shih
    • Palladius: си (si)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: se³
    • Yale: se
    • Cantonese Pinyin: se³
    • Guangdong Romanization: sé³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɛː³³/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: siék
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /siɛʔ²⁴/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian, Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: si⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɬi⁴²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: siap
    • Tâi-lô: siap
    • Phofsit Daibuun: siab
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /siap̚⁵/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /siap̚³²/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: siak
    • Tâi-lô: siak
    • Phofsit Daibuun: siag
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /siak̚⁵/

Note: siak - only for 卌九.

• • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: siab⁴
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: siap
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /siap̚²/

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• Middle Chinese: sip

Rime
Character	卌
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲こえ)	心しん (16)
Final (韻いん)	緝 (141)
Tone (調しらべ)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開ひらき合あい)	Open
Division (等ひとし)	III
Fanqie	先さき立だて切きり
Baxter	sip
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/siɪp̚/
Pan Wuyun	/sip̚/
Shao Rongfen	/sjep̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/sip̚/
Li Rong	/siəp̚/
Wang Li	/sĭĕp̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/si̯əp̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xi
Expected Cantonese Reflex	sap1

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*sub/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	卌
Reading #	1/1
No.	13425
Phonetic component	卌
Rime group	緝
Rime subdivision	3
Corresponding MC rime	𩎕
Old Chinese	/*sub/

Definitions

卌

1. forty

Synonyms

• 四よん十じゅう (sìshí)

Compounds

• 上うえ卌𣍐攝と／上うえ卌𫧃摄
• 卌九きゅう日にち
• 卌九きゅう日にち烏がらす／卌九きゅう日にち乌
• 卌工

 

References

• “Entry #1388”, in 教育きょういく部ぶ臺灣たいわん台たい語ご常用じょうよう詞し辭典じてん [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2024.
• 莆田市し荔城区く档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “卌”, in 莆仙方かた言文げんぶん读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 254.

Japanese

Kanji

卌

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. (archaic) forty

Readings

• On (unclassified): しゅう (shū)
• Kun: よんじゅう (yonjū)

Korean

Hanja

卌 (eumhun 마흔 십 (maheun sip))
卌 (eumhun 사십 십 (sasip sip))

1. forty; fortieth

Vietnamese

Han character

卌: Hán Nôm readings: tấp

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