# 隰

| 隰 | U+96B0, &#38576; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-96B0 |
| ← 隯 [U+96AF] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 隱 → [U+96B1] |

## Translingual
### Han character

隰 (Kangxi radical 170, 阜+14, 17 strokes, cangjie input 弓中日女火 (NLAVF), four-corner 7623$_3$, composition ⿰阝㬎)
* low, damp land, marsh, swamp

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 1362, character 12
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 41889
* Dae Jaweon: page 1865, character 13
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4162, character 6
* Unihan data for U+96B0

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

| | Old Chinese |
| 儑 | *ŋɯːms, *ŋɯːb, *ŋaːb |
| 濕 | *ŋ̊ʰl'ɯːb, *hŋjɯb |
| 漯 | *tŋ̊ʰɯːb |
| 礘 | *ŋɯːb |
| 隰 | *ljɯb |
| 溼 | *hŋjɯb |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ljɯb) : semantic 阜 + phonetic 㬎.

### Pronunciation 1

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): xí (xi$^2$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧˊ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): zaap$^6$
* Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): sih$^6$
* Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): si̍p
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: xí
*** Zhuyin: ㄒㄧˊ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: sí
*** Wade–Giles: hsi$^2$
*** Yale: syí
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shyi
*** Palladius: си (si)
*** Sinological IPA : /ɕi³⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: zaap$^6$
*** Yale: jaahp
*** Cantonese Pinyin: dzaap$^9$
*** Guangdong Romanization: zab$^6$
*** Sinological IPA : /t͡saːp̚²/
* Puxian Min
** (Putian)
*** Pouseng Ping'ing: sih$^6$
*** Sinological IPA : /ɬiʔ¹/
** (Xianyou)
*** Pouseng Ping'ing: sih$^6$
*** Sinological IPA : /ɬiʔ²/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: si̍p
*** Tâi-lô: si̍p
*** Phofsit Daibuun: sip
*** IPA (Xiamen): /sip̚⁴/
*** IPA (Zhangzhou): /sip̚¹²¹/
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /sip̚²⁴/
* Middle Chinese: zip
Rime :
| Character | 隰 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 邪 (17) |
| Final (韻) | 緝 (141) |
| Tone (調) | Checked (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 似入切 |
| Baxter | zip |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /ziɪp̚/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /zip̚/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /zjep̚/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /zip̚/ |
| Li Rong | /ziəp̚/ |
| Wang Li | /zĭĕp̚/ |
| Bernard Karlgren | /zi̯əp̚/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | xí |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | zap$^6$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*s-N-qip/
    (Zhengzhang): /*ljɯb/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 隰 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | xí |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ zip › |
| Old Chinese | /*s-N-qip/ |
| English | low, wet ground |
| 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 | 隰 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 11445 |
| Phonetic component | 濕 |
| Rime group | 緝 |
| Rime subdivision | 1 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 習 |
| Old Chinese | /*ljɯb/ |

#### Definitions

隰
* low wet land
    From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11th – 7th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version
    Xí yǒu chángchǔ, ēnuó qí zhī. [Pinyin]
    In the low wet grounds is the carambola tree; Soft and pliant are its branches.
* newly cultivated field
* (～縣) Xi County, Xixian (a county of Linfen, Shanxi, China)

### Pronunciation 2

* Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): sip
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sip
*** Tâi-lô: sip
*** Phofsit Daibuun: sib
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /sip̚⁵/
*** IPA (Xiamen): /sip̚³²/

#### Definitions

隰
* (Xiamen and Quanzhou Hokkien) silent and not speaking; not disclosing anything
    佯隰隰 [Hokkien] ― tìⁿ sip sip [Pe̍h-ōe-jī] ― to pretend not to know

##### Synonyms

* (Hokkien) 嗇／啬 (sek)

#### Descendants

* → English: Xi

### References

* 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “隰”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 253.

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
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#### Readings

* Go-on: じゅう (jū)
* Kan-on: しゅう (shū)
* Kan’yō-on: しつ (shitsu)
* Kun: さわ (sawa, 隰)

## Korean
### Hanja

隰 • (seup) (hangeul 습, revised seup, McCune–Reischauer sŭp, Yale sup)
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## Vietnamese
### Han character

隰: Hán Nôm readings: thấp
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