# 筮

| 筮 | U+7B6E, &#31598; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7B6E |
| ← 筭 [U+7B6D] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 筯 → [U+7B6F] |

## Translingual
### Han character

筮 (Kangxi radical 118, 竹+7, 13 strokes, cangjie input 竹一人人 (HMOO), four-corner 8810$_8$, composition ⿱𥫗巫)

#### Derived characters

* 噬, 𢶅, 澨, 𨼹, 遾, 㭀, 𥰰, 簭, 𥵼

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 885, character 23
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 26070
* Dae Jaweon: page 1314, character 3
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 2972, character 4
* Unihan data for U+7B6E

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 筮 :
| Western Zhou | Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) | Liushutong (compiled in Ming) |
| Bronze inscriptions | Small seal script | Transcribed ancient scripts |
| | Old Chinese |
| 噬 | *djads |
| 筮 | *djads |
| 簭 | *djads |
| 澨 | *djads |
| 遾 | *djads |
Ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意): 竹 (“bamboo”) + 巫 (“shaman”) + 𠬞 (“two hands”) – to divine using yarrow stalks or some kind of tools made of bamboo.

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): shì (shi$^4$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄕˋ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): sai$^6$
* Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): sē
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: shì
*** Zhuyin: ㄕˋ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: shìh
*** Wade–Giles: shih$^4$
*** Yale: shr̀
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shyh
*** Palladius: ши (ši)
*** Sinological IPA : /ʂʐ̩⁵¹/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: sai$^6$
*** Yale: saih
*** Cantonese Pinyin: sai$^6$
*** Guangdong Romanization: sei$^6$
*** Sinological IPA : /sɐi̯²²/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sē
*** Tâi-lô: sē
*** Phofsit Daibuun: se
*** IPA (Xiamen): /se²²/
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /se⁴¹/
*** IPA (Zhangzhou): /se²²/
*** IPA (Taipei): /se³³/
*** IPA (Kaohsiung): /se³³/
* Middle Chinese: dzyejH
Rime :
| Character | 筮 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 常 (25) |
| Final (韻) | 祭 (35) |
| Tone (調) | Departing (H) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 時制切 |
| Baxter | dzyejH |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /d͡ʑiᴇi$^H$/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /d͡ʑiɛi$^H$/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /d͡ʑjæi$^H$/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /d͡ʑiaj$^H$/ |
| Li Rong | /ʑiɛi$^H$/ |
| Wang Li | /ʑĭɛi$^H$/ |
| Bernhard Karlgren | /ʑi̯ɛi$^H$/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | shì |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | sai$^6$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*[d][e][t]-s/
    (Zhengzhang): /*djads/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 筮 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | shì |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ dzyej$^H$ › |
| Old Chinese | /*[d][e][t]-s/ |
| English | divine by Achillea stalks |
| 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 | 筮 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 11658 |
| Phonetic component | 筮 |
| Rime group | 祭 |
| Rime subdivision | 1 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 逝 |
| Old Chinese | /*djads/ |

### Definitions

筮
* to divine using yarrow stalks
* divination (using yarrow stalks)
* divination with stalks of plants
* divining rod

#### Compounds

* 卜筮 (bǔshì)
* 占筮 (zhānshì)
* 筮仕 (shìshì)
* 龜筮 / 龟筮

### References

* “筮”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
* fortunetelling; divination
* divination sticks​; fortune stick

#### Readings

* Go-on: ぜ (ze)
* Kan-on: せい (sei)
* Kan’yō-on: ぜい (zei)
* Kun: うらなう (uranau, 筮う)、めどぎ (medogi)

#### Compounds=

* 筮竹(ぜいちく) (zeichiku)
* 卜筮(ぼくぜい) (bokuzei)

### Etymology

* Kanji in this term
* 筮
* めどき Hyōgai
* kun'yomi
* Alternative spelling
* 蓍
* Kanji in this term
* 筮
* めどぎ Hyōgai
* kun'yomi
* Alternative spelling
* 蓍

### Noun

筮(めどき) or 筮(めどぎ) • (medoki or medogi)
* divination sticks, initially made of Lespedeza cuneata stalks, later of bamboo

## Korean
### Hanja

筮 • (seo) (hangeul 서, revised seo, McCune–Reischauer sŏ, Yale se)
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## Vietnamese
### Han character

筮: Hán Nôm readings: vầu, phệ, thệ
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