# 嗜

| 嗜 | U+55DC, &#21980; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-55DC |
| ← 嗛 [U+55DB] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 嗝 → [U+55DD] |

## Translingual
### Han character

嗜 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 口十心日 (RJPA), four-corner 6406$_1$, composition ⿰口耆)

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 203, character 6
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 4089
* Dae Jaweon: page 425, character 25
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 664, character 16
* Unihan data for U+55DC

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

* Historical forms of the character 嗜
* Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
* Small seal script
| | Old Chinese |
| 稽 | *kiː, *kʰiːʔ |
| 詣 | *ŋɡiːs |
| 栺 | *ŋɡiːs, *kji |
| 榰 | *klje |
| 脂 | *kji |
| 鴲 | *kji, *kjis |
| 指 | *kjiʔ |
| 旨 | *kjiʔ |
| 恉 | *kjiʔ |
| 嗜 | *ɡjis |
| 蓍 | *qʰlji |
| 鰭 | *ɡri |
| 耆 | *ɡri |
| 鮨 | *ɡri |
| 鬐 | *ɡri |

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): shì (shi$^4$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄕˋ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): si$^3$
* Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): sī
* 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: si$^3$
*** Yale: si
*** Cantonese Pinyin: si$^3$
*** Guangdong Romanization: xi$^3$
*** Sinological IPA : /siː³³/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sī
*** Tâi-lô: sī
*** Phofsit Daibuun: si
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /si⁴¹/
*** IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /si²²/
* Middle Chinese: dzyijH
Rime :
| Character | 嗜 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 常 (25) |
| Final (韻) | 脂 (15) |
| Tone (調) | Departing (H) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 常利切 |
| Baxter | dzyijH |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /d͡ʑiɪ$^H$/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /d͡ʑi$^H$/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /d͡ʑjɪ$^H$/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /d͡ʑi$^H$/ |
| Li Rong | /ʑi$^H$/ |
| Wang Li | /ʑi$^H$/ |
| Bernhard Karlgren | /ʑi$^H$/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | shì |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | si$^6$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*[ɡ]ij-s/
    (Zhengzhang): /*ɡjis/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 嗜 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | shì |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ dzyij$^H$ › |
| Old Chinese | /*[ɡ]ij-s/ |
| English | enjoy |
| 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 | 嗜 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 17329 |
| Phonetic component | 旨 |
| Rime group | 脂 |
| Rime subdivision | 2 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 嗜 |
| Old Chinese | /*ɡjis/ |

### Definitions

嗜
* to be addicted to; to indulge in; to have weakness for
    From: Mencius, c. 4th century BCE
    Bù shì shā rén zhě néng yī zhī. [Pinyin]
    He who has no pleasure in killing men can so unite it.
    From: Yuen Ren Chao, Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den, 1930
    Shíshì shīshì Shī shì, shì shī, shì shí shí shī. [Pinyin]
    A poet named Shi lived in a stone room, who was fond of eating lions, so he swore that he would eat ten lions.
* (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) to covet

#### Compounds

* 嗜之如命
* 嗜好 (shìhào)
* 嗜慾 / 嗜欲 (shìyù)
* 嗜殺成性 / 嗜杀成性
* 嗜痂之癖
* 嗜痂成癖
* 嗜睡症 (shìshuìzhèng)
* 嗜血 (shìxuè)
* 嗜酒 (shìjiǔ)
* 癖嗜
* 酷嗜

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
* like
* prefer

#### Readings

* Go-on: じ (ji)
* Kan-on: し (shi)
* Kun: たしなむ (tashinamu, 嗜む)

## Korean
### Hanja

嗜 • (gi) (hangeul 기, revised gi, McCune–Reischauer ki)
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## Vietnamese
### Han character

嗜: Hán Nôm readings: thị
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#### References

* Nom Foundation