# 蟋

| 蟋 | U+87CB, &#34763; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-87CB |
| ← 蟊 [U+87CA] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 蟌 → [U+87CC] |

## Translingual
### Han character

蟋 (Kangxi radical 142, 虫+11, 17 strokes, cangjie input 中戈竹木心 (LIHDP), four-corner 5213$_9$, composition ⿰虫悉)

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 1096, character 15
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33550
* Dae Jaweon: page 1560, character 32
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2886, character 7
* Unihan data for U+87CB

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

| | Old Chinese |
| 僁 | *siːd, *sid |
| 悉 | *sid |
| 蟋 | *sid, *srid |
| 窸 | *sid |

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): xī (xi$^1$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): sik$^1$
* Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): sih$^6$
* Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): siak / sek / sih
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: xī
*** Zhuyin: ㄒㄧ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: si
*** Wade–Giles: hsi$^1$
*** Yale: syī
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shi
*** Palladius: си (si)
*** Sinological IPA : /ɕi⁵⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: sik$^1$
*** Yale: sīk
*** Cantonese Pinyin: sik$^7$
*** Guangdong Romanization: xig$^1$
*** Sinological IPA : /sɪk̚⁵/
* Puxian Min
** (Putian)
*** Pouseng Ping'ing: sih$^6$
*** Sinological IPA : /ɬiʔ¹/
** (Xianyou)
*** Pouseng Ping'ing: sih$^6$
*** Sinological IPA : /ɬiʔ²/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: siak
*** Tâi-lô: siak
*** Phofsit Daibuun: siag
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /siak̚⁵/
** (Hokkien: variant in Taiwan, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sek
*** Tâi-lô: sik
*** Phofsit Daibuun: seg
*** IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung, Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /siɪk̚³²/
** (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sih
*** Tâi-lô: sih
*** Phofsit Daibuun: siq
*** IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /siʔ³²/
* Middle Chinese: sit, srit
Rime :
| Character | 蟋 | 蟋 |
| Reading # | 1/2 | 2/2 |
| Initial (聲) | 心 (16) | 生 (21) |
| Final (韻) | 質 (48) | 櫛 (51) |
| Tone (調) | Checked (Ø) | Checked (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open | Open |
| Division (等) | III | III |
| Fanqie | 息七切 | 所櫛切 |
| Baxter | sit | srit |
| Reconstructions |||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /siɪt̚/ | /ʃɪt̚/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /sit̚/ | /ʃɪt̚/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /sjet̚/ | /ʃiet̚/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /sit̚/ | /ʂit̚/ |
| Li Rong | /siĕt̚/ | /ʃiĕt̚/ |
| Wang Li | /sĭĕt̚/ | /ʃĭet̚/ |
| Bernard Karlgren | /si̯ĕt̚/ | /ʂi̯æt̚/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | xi | she |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | sat$^1$ | sat$^1$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*srit/
    (Zhengzhang): /*sid/, /*srid/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 蟋 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | xī |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ srit › |
| Old Chinese | /*srit/ |
| English | 蟋蟀 cricket |
| 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 | 蟋 | 蟋 |
| Reading # | 1/2 | 2/2 |
| No. | 13340 | 13343 |
| Phonetic component | 悉 | 悉 |
| Rime group | 質 | 質 |
| Rime subdivision | 1 | 1 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 悉 | 瑟 |
| Old Chinese | /*sid/ | /*srid/ |
| Notes | 見爾雅說文作悉 | |

### Definitions

蟋
* Only used in 蟋蟀 (xīshuài).

#### Compounds

* 蟋蜴
* 蟋蟀 (xīshuài)
* 蟋蟀草
* 鬥蟋蟀／斗蟋蟀

### References

* 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “蟋”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 252.

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
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#### Readings

* Go-on: しち (shichi)
* Kan-on: しつ (shitsu)

## Korean
### Hanja

蟋 • (sil) (hangeul 실, revised sil, McCune–Reischauer sil, Yale sil)
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## Vietnamese
### Han character

蟋: Hán Nôm readings: tất
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