# 蓍

| 蓍 | U+84CD, &#33997; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-84CD |
| ← 蓌 [U+84CC] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 蓎 → [U+84CE] |

## Translingual
### Han character

蓍 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+10, 16 strokes, cangjie input 廿十心日 (TJPA), four-corner 4460$_1$, composition ⿱艹耆)
* milfoil, plant used in divination

#### Derived characters

* 𭋦

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 1051, character 16
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31655
* Dae Jaweon: page 1513, character 11
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3260, character 9
* Unihan data for U+84CD

## Chinese

* 蓍 (Written Standard Chinese)
* Achillea millefolium (English)

### Glyph origin

| | 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): shī (shi$^1$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄕ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): si$^1$
* Eastern Min (BUC): sĭ
* Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): si$^1$
* Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): si
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: shī
*** Zhuyin: ㄕ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: shih
*** Wade–Giles: shih$^1$
*** Yale: shr̄
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shy
*** Palladius: ши (ši)
*** Sinological IPA : /ʂʐ̩⁵⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: si$^1$
*** Yale: sī
*** Cantonese Pinyin: si$^1$
*** Guangdong Romanization: xi$^1$
*** Sinological IPA : /siː⁵⁵/
* Eastern Min
** (Fuzhou)
*** Bàng-uâ-cê: sĭ
*** Sinological IPA : /si⁵⁵/
* Puxian Min
** (Putian, Xianyou)
*** Pouseng Ping'ing: si$^1$
*** Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: si
*** Sinological IPA : /ɬi⁵³³/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: si
*** Tâi-lô: si
*** Phofsit Daibuun: sy
*** IPA (Xiamen): /si⁴⁴/
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /si³³/
*** IPA (Zhangzhou): /si⁴⁴/
*** IPA (Taipei): /si⁴⁴/
*** IPA (Kaohsiung): /si⁴⁴/
* Middle Chinese: syij
Rime :
| Character | 蓍 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 書 (26) |
| Final (韻) | 脂 (15) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 式之切 |
| Baxter | syij |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /ɕiɪ/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /ɕi/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /ɕjɪ/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /ɕi/ |
| Li Rong | /ɕi/ |
| Wang Li | /ɕi/ |
| Bernhard Karlgren | /ɕi/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | shī |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | si$^1$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*s-kij/
    (Zhengzhang): /*qʰlji/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 蓍 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | shī |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ syij › |
| Old Chinese | /*s-kij/ |
| English | Achillea (?) |
| 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 | 蓍 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 17330 |
| Phonetic component | 旨 |
| Rime group | 脂 |
| Rime subdivision | 2 |
| Corresponding MC rime | |
| Old Chinese | /*qʰlji/ |

### Definitions

蓍
* yarrow; Achillea millefolium

### Compounds

* 不待蓍龜 / 不待蓍龟 (bùdàishīguī)
* 刈蓍遺簪 / 刈蓍遗簪
* 揲蓍
* 蓍簪不忘
* 蓍草 (shīcǎo)
* 蓍蔡
* 蓍龜 / 蓍龟 (shīguī)

### References

* “蓍”, 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–
* William Campbell (1913) A dictionary of the Amoy vernacular spoken throughout the prefectures of Chin-Chiu, Chiang-Chiu and Formosa (in Hokkien), 8th edition, Tainan: Taiwan Church Press, published 1961, →OCLC, page 607.
* 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “蓍”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 210.

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
* lespedeza

#### Readings

* Go-on: し (shi)
* Kan-on: し (shi)
* Kun: めどぎ (medogi, 蓍)

### Etymology 1

* Kanji in this term
* 蓍
* めど Hyōgai

#### Noun

蓍(めど) • (medo)
* (archaic) Short for 蓍萩 (medohagi, “Lespedeza juncea”).
* (archaic) Short for 蓍 (medoki, “divination sticks”).
* (archaic) (by extension) the practice of divination with divination sticks or lespedeza stalks

### Etymology 2

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

#### Noun

蓍(めどき) or 蓍(めどぎ) • (medoki or medogi)
* divination sticks, initially made of lespedeza stalks, used for hexagram divination

## Korean
### Hanja

蓍 (eum 시 (si))
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