# 螽斯
## Chinese

* 螽斯

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): zhōngsī
    (Zhuyin): ㄓㄨㄥ ㄙ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): zung$^1$ si$^1$
* Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): chiong-su
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: zhōngsī
*** Zhuyin: ㄓㄨㄥ ㄙ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: jhongsih
*** Wade–Giles: chung$^1$-ssŭ$^1$
*** Yale: jūng-sz̄
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jongsy
*** Palladius: чжунсы (čžunsy)
*** Sinological IPA : /ʈ͡ʂʊŋ⁵⁵ sz̩⁵⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: zung$^1$ si$^1$
*** Yale: jūng sī
*** Cantonese Pinyin: dzung$^1$ si$^1$
*** Guangdong Romanization: zung$^1$ xi$^1$
*** Sinological IPA : /t͡sʊŋ⁵⁵ siː⁵⁵/
*** Homophones: $^{edit}$宗師／宗师 螽斯
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chiong-su
*** Tâi-lô: tsiong-su
*** Phofsit Daibuun: ciongsw
*** IPA (Xiamen): /t͡siɔŋ⁴⁴⁻²² su⁴⁴/
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡siɔŋ³³ su³³/
*** IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡siɔŋ⁴⁴⁻²² su⁴⁴/
*** IPA (Taipei): /t͡siɔŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ su⁴⁴/
*** IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡siɔŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ su⁴⁴/
* Middle Chinese: tsyuwng sje
Rime :
| Character | 螽 | 斯 |
| Reading # | 1/1 | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 章 (23) | 心 (16) |
| Final (韻) | 東 (2) | 支 (11) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open | Open |
| Division (等) | III | III |
| Fanqie | 職戎切 | 息移切 |
| Baxter | tsyuwng | sje |
| Reconstructions |||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /t͡ɕɨuŋ/ | /siᴇ/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /t͡ɕiuŋ/ | /siɛ/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /t͡ɕiuŋ/ | /sjɛ/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /cuwŋ/ | /siə̆/ |
| Li Rong | /t͡ɕiuŋ/ | /sie/ |
| Wang Li | /t͡ɕĭuŋ/ | /sǐe/ |
| Bernard Karlgren | /t͡ɕi̯uŋ/ | /sie̯/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | zhōng | sī |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | zung$^1$ | si$^1$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*tuŋ [s]e/
    (Zhengzhang): /*tjuŋ se/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 螽 | 斯 | 斯 |
| Reading # | 1/1 | 1/3 | 2/3 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | zhōng | sī | sī |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ tsyuwng › | ‹ sje › | ‹ sje › |
| Old Chinese | /*tuŋ/ | /*[s]e/ | /*[s]e/ |
| English | tsyuwng.sje locust | split (v.) | this |
| 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 | 螽 | 斯 |
| Reading # | 1/1 | 1/1 |
| No. | 2429 | 11995 |
| Phonetic component | 冬 | 斯 |
| Rime group | 終 | 支 |
| Rime subdivision | 0 | 0 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 終 | 斯 |
| Old Chinese | /*tjuŋ/ | /*se/ |
| Notes | | 朱駿聲雲斯爲會意字， 非其聲 |

### Noun

螽斯
* katydid; bush-cricket (Tettigoniidae)
    From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11th – 7th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version
    Zhōngsī yǔ, shēnshēn xī. Yí ěr zǐsūn, zhènzhèn xī. [Pinyin]
    Ye winged bush-crickets, how harmoniously ye collect together! Right is it that your descendants should be multitudinous!

#### Synonyms

* 絡緯／络纬 (luòwěi)
* 蚣蝑 (zhōngxū)
* 蚣䗥／蚣𰲯 (zhōngzōng)
* 蚣𧐱／蚣𬟺 (zhōngzōng)
* 𧌻蝑 (sōngxū)
* 蜙蝑 (sōngxū)
* 𧌻𧐱／𧌻𬟺 (sōngzōng)
* 蜙䗥／蜙𰲯 (sōngzōng)
* 𧐱蝑／𬟺蝑 (cóngxū)
* 䗥蝑／𰲯蝑 (zōngxū)
* 𧐍𧑓 (chōngshǔ)

#### Hyponyms

* 紡織娘／纺织娘 (fǎngzhīniáng)

#### Derived terms

* 螽斯之徵／螽斯之征
* 螽斯之德
* 螽斯之慶／螽斯之庆
* 螽斯振羽

## Japanese

Kanji in this term :
| 螽 | 斯 |
| Hyōgai | Jinmeiyō |
| irregular ||
* Alternative spellings
* 螽蟖 蟋蟀 蛬

### Etymology

The kanji are jukujikun (熟字訓), from Chinese 螽斯 (zhōngsī)
* This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “sounds like Old Japanese onomatopoeia, compare with ぎりぎり (girigiri)”

### Pronunciation

* (Tokyo) きりぎりす [kìrígíꜜrìsù] (Nakadaka – [3])
* IPA: [kʲiɾʲiɡʲiɾʲisɨ]

### Noun

螽斯(きりぎりす) or 螽斯(キリギリス) • (kirigirisu)
* a Japanese katydid (Gampsocleis buergeri)