# 士大夫
## Chinese

* 士大夫 (Written Standard Chinese)
* Scholar-official (English)

### Etymology

* (production team): Phono-semantic matching of Japanese スタッフ, from English staff.

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): shìdàfū
    (Zhuyin): ㄕˋ ㄉㄚˋ ㄈㄨ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): si$^6$ daai$^6$ fu$^1$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: shìdàfū
*** Zhuyin: ㄕˋ ㄉㄚˋ ㄈㄨ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: shìhdàfu
*** Wade–Giles: shih$^4$-ta$^4$-fu$^1$
*** Yale: shr̀-dà-fū
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shyhdahfu
*** Palladius: шидафу (šidafu)
*** Sinological IPA : /ʂʐ̩⁵¹⁻⁵³ tä⁵¹ fu⁵⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: si$^6$ daai$^6$ fu$^1$
*** Yale: sih daaih fū
*** Cantonese Pinyin: si$^6$ daai$^6$ fu$^1$
*** Guangdong Romanization: xi$^6$ dai$^6$ fu$^1$
*** Sinological IPA : /siː²² taːi̯²² fuː⁵⁵/
* Middle Chinese: dzriX dajH|daH pju
Rime :
| Character | 士 | 大 | 大 | 夫 |
| Reading # | 1/1 | 1/2 | 2/2 | 2/2 |
| Initial (聲) | 崇 (20) | 定 (7) | 定 (7) | 幫 (1) |
| Final (韻) | 之 (19) | 泰 (25) | 歌 (94) | 虞 (24) |
| Tone (調) | Rising (X) | Departing (H) | Departing (H) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open | Open | Open | Closed |
| Division (等) | III | I | I | III |
| Fanqie | 鉏里切 | 徒蓋切 | 唐佐切 | 甫無切 |
| Baxter | dzriX | dajH | daH | pju |
| Reconstructions |||||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /d͡ʒɨ$^X$/ | /dɑi$^H$/ | /dɑ$^H$/ | /pɨo/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /ɖ͡ʐɨ$^X$/ | /dɑi$^H$/ | /dɑ$^H$/ | /pio/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /d͡ʒie$^X$/ | /dɑi$^H$/ | /dɑ$^H$/ | /pio/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /ɖ͡ʐɨ$^X$/ | /daj$^H$/ | /da$^H$/ | /puə̆/ |
| Li Rong | /d͡ʒiə$^X$/ | /dɑi$^H$/ | /dɑ$^H$/ | /pio/ |
| Wang Li | /d͡ʒĭə$^X$/ | /dɑi$^H$/ | /dɑ$^H$/ | /pĭu/ |
| Bernhard Karlgren | /ɖ͡ʐʱi$^X$/ | /dʱɑi$^H$/ | /dʱɑ$^H$/ | /pi̯u/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | zhì | dài | duò | fū |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | zi$^6$ | daai$^6$ | do$^6$ | fu$^1$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*[m-s-]rəʔ lˤat-s|lˤa[t]-s p(r)a/
    (Zhengzhang): /*zrɯʔ daːds pa/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 士 | 大 | 大 | 夫 |
| Reading # | 1/1 | 1/2 | 2/2 | 1/3 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | shì | dà | dà | fū |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ dzri$^X$ › | ‹ da$^H$ › | ‹ daj$^H$ › | ‹ pju › |
| Old Chinese | /*[m-s-]rəʔ/ | /*lˁat-s/ (MC F!) | /*lˁa[t]-s/ | /*p(r)a/ |
| English | officer; gentleman | big | big | man |
| 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 | 士 | 大 | 大 | 夫 |
| Reading # | 1/1 | 1/2 | 2/2 | 1/2 |
| No. | 11511 | 1934 | 1939 | 3274 |
| Phonetic component | 士 | 大 | 大 | 夫 |
| Rime group | 之 | 祭 | 祭 | 魚 |
| Rime subdivision | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 士 | 䭾 | 大 | 跗 |
| Old Chinese | /*zrɯʔ/ | /*daːds/ | /*daːds/ | /*pa/ |

### Noun

士大夫
* (archaic, historical, Han to Qing dynasties) scholar-official; literati
* (Mainland China, television, fandom slang) production team (of a Japanese TV show)

## Japanese

Kanji in this term :
| 士 | 大 | 夫 |
| し Grade: 5 | たい Grade: 1 | ふ Grade: 4 |
| on'yomi |||

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ɕita̠iɸɯ̟]

### Noun

士(し)大(たい)夫(ふ) • (shitaifu)
* (archaic, historical, Han to Qing dynasties) scholar-official; literati

## Korean

Hanja in this term :
| 士 | 大 | 夫 |

### Noun

士大夫 • (sadaebu) (hangeul 사대부)
* hanja form of 사대부 (“scholar-official; literati”)

## Vietnamese

chữ Hán Nôm in this term :
| 士 | 大 | 夫 |

### Noun

士大夫
* chữ Hán form of sĩ đại phu (“scholar-official; literati”).