# 嗣

| 嗣 | U+55E3, &#21987; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-55E3 |
| ← 嗢 [U+55E2] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 嗤 → [U+55E4] |

## Translingual
### Han character

嗣 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 口月尸一口 (RBSMR), four-corner 6722$_0$, composition ⿰⿱口𠕁司)
* to connect, inherit
* descendants, heirs

#### Derived characters

* 𭺂, 𦽊, 𫲱

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 203, character 30
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 4109
* Dae Jaweon: page 426, character 10
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 667, character 11
* Unihan data for U+55E3

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

| | Old Chinese |
| 司 | *slɯ |
| 伺 | *slɯ, *slɯs |
| 覗 | *slɯ, *slɯs |
| 笥 | *slɯ, *slɯs |
| 詞 | *ljɯ |
| 祠 | *ljɯ |
| 柌 | *ljɯ |
| 嗣 | *ljɯs |
| 孠 | *ljɯs |
| 飼 | *ljɯs |
| 呞 | *hljɯ |

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): sì (si$^4$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄙˋ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): zi$^6$
* Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): sīr / sū / sû
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: sì
*** Zhuyin: ㄙˋ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: sìh
*** Wade–Giles: ssŭ$^4$
*** Yale: sz̀
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: syh
*** Palladius: сы (sy)
*** Sinological IPA : /sz̩⁵¹/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: zi$^6$
*** Yale: jih
*** Cantonese Pinyin: dzi$^6$
*** Guangdong Romanization: ji$^6$
*** Sinological IPA : /t͡siː²²/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sīr
*** Tâi-lô: sīr
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /sɯ⁴¹/
** (Hokkien: General Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sū
*** Tâi-lô: sū
*** Phofsit Daibuun: su
*** IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /su³³/
*** IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /su²²/
** (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sû
*** Tâi-lô: sû
*** Phofsit Daibuun: suu
*** IPA (Taipei): /su²⁴/
*** IPA (Kaohsiung): /su²³/
* Middle Chinese: ziH
Rime :
| Character | 嗣 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 邪 (17) |
| Final (韻) | 之 (19) |
| Tone (調) | Departing (H) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 祥吏切 |
| Baxter | ziH |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /zɨ$^H$/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /zɨ$^H$/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /zie$^H$/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /zɨ$^H$/ |
| Li Rong | /ziə$^H$/ |
| Wang Li | /zĭə$^H$/ |
| Bernard Karlgren | /zi$^H$/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | sì |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | zi$^6$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*sə.lə-s/
    (Zhengzhang): /*ljɯs/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 嗣 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | sì |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ zi$^H$ › |
| Old Chinese | /*sə.lə-s/ |
| English | succeed, inherit |
| 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 | 嗣 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 11961 |
| Phonetic component | 司 |
| Rime group | 之 |
| Rime subdivision | 0 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 寺 |
| Old Chinese | /*ljɯs/ |

### Definitions

嗣
* (literary) to inherit; to continue
    From: Commentary of Zuo, c. 4th century BCE
    Zǐchǎn ér sǐ, shéi qí sì zhī? [Pinyin]
    (please add an English translation of this quotation)
    From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11th – 7th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version
    Qīngqīng zǐ jīn, yōuyōu wǒ xīn. Zòng wǒ bù wǎng, zǐ nìng bú sìyīn. [Pinyin]
    Blue-green are your collars. Anxious is my heart. Though I do not go, would you not continue your letters?
* (literary) descendants
    From: c. 803, Liu Zongyuan, 祭十二郎文
    Xìn yě, wú xiōng zhī shèngdé ér yāo qí sì hū? [Pinyin]
    (please add an English translation of this quotation)
* (literary) heir; successor
* (literary) soon after

### Compounds

* 世嗣宦族
* 令嗣
* 冢嗣
* 哲嗣
* 嗣主
* 嗣位 (sìwèi)
* 嗣君
* 嗣子 (sìzǐ)
* 嗣後／嗣后 (sìhòu)
* 嗣徽
* 嗣息
* 嗣承
* 嗣服
* 嗣業／嗣业
* 嗣歲／嗣岁
* 嗣父母
* 嗣產／嗣产
* 嗣續／嗣续
* 嗣適／嗣适
* 嗣音
* 嗣響／嗣响
* 嫡嗣
* 子嗣 (zǐsì)
* 孤嗣
* 廣嗣／广嗣
* 延壽添嗣／延寿添嗣
* 後嗣／后嗣 (hòusì)
* 承嗣
* 斬宗絕嗣／斩宗绝嗣
* 根嗣
* 求嗣
* 立嗣 (lìsì)
* 絕嗣／绝嗣 (juésì)
* 繼嗣／继嗣 (jìsì)
* 胤嗣 (yìnsì)
* 血嗣
* 覆宗絕嗣／覆宗绝嗣

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Jōyō kanji)
* to inherit; to succeed (take over a position). See the variant form: 継ぐ.

#### Readings

* Go-on: じ (ji)
* Kan-on: し (shi, Jōyō)
* Kun: つぐ (tsugu, 嗣ぐ)

## Korean
### Hanja

嗣 • (sa) (hangeul 사, revised sa, McCune–Reischauer sa)
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## Vietnamese
### Han character

嗣: Hán Nôm readings: tự
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