# 泗

| 泗 | U+6CD7, &#27863; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6CD7 |
| ← 泖 [U+6CD6] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 泘 → [U+6CD8] |

## Translingual
### Han character

泗 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 水田金 (EWC), four-corner 3610$_0$, composition ⿰氵四)

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 616, character 17
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17294
* Dae Jaweon: page 1011, character 1
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1587, character 3
* Unihan data for U+6CD7

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 泗 :
| Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) | Liushutong (compiled in Ming) |
| Small seal script | Transcribed ancient scripts |
| | Old Chinese |
| 訵 | *l̥ʰids |
| 四 | *hljids |
| 泗 | *hljids |
| 駟 | *hljids |
| 柶 | *hljids |
| 牭 | *hljids |
| 呬 | *hrids |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *hljids): semantic 氵 (“water”) + phonetic 四 (OC *hljids).

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): sì (si$^4$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄙˋ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): si$^3$ / sei$^3$
* Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): $^5$sy
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: sì
*** Zhuyin: ㄙˋ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: sìh
*** Wade–Giles: ssŭ$^4$
*** Yale: sz̀
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: syh
*** Palladius: сы (sy)
*** Sinological IPA : /sz̩⁵¹/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: si$^3$ / sei$^3$
*** Yale: si / sei
*** Cantonese Pinyin: si$^3$ / sei$^3$
*** Guangdong Romanization: xi$^3$ / séi$^3$
*** Sinological IPA : /siː³³/, /sei̯³³/
* Wu
** (Northern: Shanghai)
*** Wugniu: $^5$sy
*** MiniDict: sy$^去$
*** Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): $^2$sr
*** Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /sz̩³⁴/
* Middle Chinese: sijH
Rime :
| Character | 泗 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 心 (16) |
| Final (韻) | 脂 (15) |
| Tone (調) | Departing (H) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 息利切 |
| Baxter | sijH |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /siɪ$^H$/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /si$^H$/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /sjɪ$^H$/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /si$^H$/ |
| Li Rong | /si$^H$/ |
| Wang Li | /si$^H$/ |
| Bernhard Karlgren | /si$^H$/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | sì |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | si$^3$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Zhengzhang): /*hljids/
Zhengzhang system (2003) :
| Character | 泗 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 12023 |
| Phonetic component | 四 |
| Rime group | 至 |
| Rime subdivision | 1 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 四 |
| Old Chinese | /*hljids/ |

### Definitions

泗
* (literary) nasal mucus
* sniffle
* Si River (a river in Shandong, China)

### Compounds

* 嵊泗列島 / 嵊泗列岛
* 悲泗淋漓
* 感激涕泗
* 楊泗將軍 / 杨泗将军
* 楊泗菩薩 / 杨泗菩萨
* 泗州 (Sìzhōu)
* 泗州戲 / 泗州戏
* 泗水 (Sìshuǐ)
* 泗河
* 泗澗溝 / 泗涧沟 (Sìjiàngōu, “Sijiangou”)
* 泗里街 (Sìlǐjiē)
* 消泗 (Xiāosì)
* 涕泗 (tìsì)
* 涕泗交下
* 涕泗交流
* 涕泗交頤 / 涕泗交颐
* 涕泗橫流 / 涕泗横流 (tìsì héngliú)
* 涕泗滂沱
* 涕泗縱橫 / 涕泗纵横

### References

* “泗”, 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)
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#### Readings

* Go-on: し (shi)
* Kan-on: し (shi)
* Kun: なみだ (namida)、はなじる (hanajiru)

## Korean
### Hanja

泗 (eum 사 (sa))
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## Vietnamese
### Han character

泗: Hán Nôm readings: tứa
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