# 司鐸
## Chinese
### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): sīduó
    (Zhuyin): ㄙ ㄉㄨㄛˊ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): si$^1$ dok$^6$
* Southern Min
    (Hokkien, POJ): su-to̍k / sir-to̍k
    (Teochew, Peng'im): si$^1$ dag$^8$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: sīduó
*** Zhuyin: ㄙ ㄉㄨㄛˊ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: sihduó
*** Wade–Giles: ssŭ$^1$-to$^2$
*** Yale: sz̄-dwó
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: sydwo
*** Palladius: сыдо (sydo)
*** Sinological IPA : /sz̩⁵⁵ tu̯ɔ³⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: si$^1$ dok$^6$
*** Yale: sī dohk
*** Cantonese Pinyin: si$^1$ dok$^9$
*** Guangdong Romanization: xi$^1$ dog$^6$
*** Sinological IPA : /siː⁵⁵ tɔːk̚²/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien: General Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: su-to̍k
*** Tâi-lô: su-to̍k
*** Phofsit Daibuun: su'dok
*** IPA (Xiamen): /su⁴⁴⁻²² tɔk̚⁴/
*** IPA (Zhangzhou): /su⁴⁴⁻²² tɔk̚¹²¹/
*** IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /su⁴⁴⁻³³ tɔk̚⁴/
** (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sir-to̍k
*** Tâi-lô: sir-to̍k
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /sɯ³³ tɔk̚²⁴/
** (Teochew)
*** Peng'im: si$^1$ dag$^8$
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: si ta̍k
*** Sinological IPA : /si³³⁻²³ tak̚⁴/
* Middle Chinese: si dak
Rime :
| Character | 司 | 鐸 |
| Reading # | 1/1 | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 心 (16) | 定 (7) |
| Final (韻) | 之 (19) | 鐸 (103) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) | Checked (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open | Open |
| Division (等) | III | I |
| Fanqie | 息兹切 | 徒落切 |
| Baxter | si | dak |
| Reconstructions |||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /sɨ/ | /dɑk̚/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /sɨ/ | /dɑk̚/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /sie/ | /dɑk̚/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /sɨ/ | /dak̚/ |
| Li Rong | /siə/ | /dɑk̚/ |
| Wang Li | /sĭə/ | /dɑk̚/ |
| Bernard Karlgren | /si/ | /dʱɑk̚/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | sī | duó |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | si$^1$ | dok$^6$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*s-lə lˤak/
    (Zhengzhang): /*slɯ l'aːɡ/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 司 | 鐸 |
| Reading # | 1/1 | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | sī | duó |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ si › | ‹ dak › |
| Old Chinese | /*s-lə/ | /*lˁak/ |
| English | superintend | a kind of bell |
| 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 | 司 | 鐸 |
| Reading # | 1/1 | 1/1 |
| No. | 11951 | 15125 |
| Phonetic component | 司 | 睪 |
| Rime group | 之 | 鐸 |
| Rime subdivision | 0 | 0 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 思 | 鐸 |
| Old Chinese | /*slɯ/ | /*l'aːɡ/ |

### Etymology 1
#### Noun

司鐸
* (literary, historical) one who is in charge of striking the duo (a large bell with a dull sound)
* (literary, figurative) one who manages culture and education

#### Proper noun

司鐸
* (historical) a palace in State of Lu in the Spring and Autumn period
* a surname

### Etymology 2

* 司鐸
Phono-semantic matching of Latin sacerdōtem (“priest”), based on the full noun 撒責爾鐸德／撒责尔铎德 (sāzé'ěrduódé), cf. Portuguese sacerdote.

#### Noun

司鐸
* (Catholicism) priest

##### Synonyms

* 神父 (shénfù)