# 舐

| 舐 | U+8210, &#33296; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8210 |
| ← 舏 [U+820F] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 舑 → [U+8211] |

## Translingual
### Han character

舐 (Kangxi radical 135, 舌+4, 10 strokes, cangjie input 竹口竹女心 (HRHVP), four-corner 2264$_0$, composition ⿰舌氏)

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 1007, character 3
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30283
* Dae Jaweon: page 1464, character 5
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 2943, character 7
* Unihan data for U+8210

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

| | Old Chinese |
| 氏 | *skeŋ, *kje, *ɡjeʔ |
| 衹 | *kje, *ɡe |
| 紙 | *kjeʔ |
| 帋 | *kjeʔ |
| 扺 | *kjeʔ |
| 坁 | *kjeʔ |
| 汦 | *kjeʔ, *tjil |
| 忯 | *ɡje, *ɡe |
| 眂 | *ɡje, *ɡils |
| 舐 | *ɦljeʔ |
| 芪 | *ɡe |
| 祇 | *ɡe |
| 疧 | *ɡe |
| 軝 | *ɡe |
| 蚔 | *ɡe |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ɦljeʔ): semantic 舌 + phonetic 氏 (OC *skeŋ, *kje, *ɡjeʔ).
The glyphs recorded in Shuowen are 舓 (shì) (with phonetic 易 (OC *leːɡs, *leɡ)) and 𦧇 (with phonetic 也 (OC *laːlʔ)).

### Etymology 1

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m/s/g-ljak (“to lick; tongue”). The Cantonese vernacular reading laai$^2$ preserves the Old Chinese initial *l-.

#### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): shì (shi$^4$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄕˋ
* Cantonese
    (Guangzhou–Hong Kong, Jyutping): saai$^5$ / saai$^2$ / saai$^3$ / si$^5$ / si$^6$ / laai$^2$
    (Taishan, Wiktionary): sai$^4$
* Hakka
    (Sixian, PFS): sê
    (Hailu, HRS): she$^ˋ$
    (Meixian, Guangdong): sai$^1$ / si$^4$
* Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): si$^5$
* Southern Min
    (Hokkien, POJ): chī / chǐ / chīⁿ / chǐⁿ / sī / sǐ
    (Teochew, Peng'im): zi$^6$
* 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: saai$^5$ / saai$^2$ / saai$^3$ / si$^5$ / si$^6$ / laai$^2$
*** Yale: sáaih / sáai / saai / síh / sih / láai
*** Cantonese Pinyin: saai$^5$ / saai$^2$ / saai$^3$ / si$^5$ / si$^6$ / laai$^2$
*** Guangdong Romanization: sai$^5$ / sai$^2$ / sai$^3$ / xi$^5$ / xi$^6$ / lai$^2$
*** Sinological IPA : /saːi̯¹³/, /saːi̯³⁵/, /saːi̯³³/, /siː¹³/, /siː²²/, /laːi̯³⁵/
* saai5, saai2, saai3 (rare), si5 (rare), si6 (rare) - literary;
* laai2 - vernacular.
* Middle Chinese: zyeX
Rime :
| Character | 舐 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 船 (27) |
| Final (韻) | 支 (11) |
| Tone (調) | Rising (X) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 神帋切 |
| Baxter | zyeX |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /ʑiᴇ$^X$/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /ʑiɛ$^X$/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /ʑjɛ$^X$/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /ʑiə̆$^X$/ |
| Li Rong | /d͡ʑie$^X$/ |
| Wang Li | /d͡ʑǐe$^X$/ |
| Bernhard Karlgren | /d͡ʑʰie̯$^X$/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | shì |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | si$^6$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*Cə.leʔ/
    (Zhengzhang): /*ɦljeʔ/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 舐 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | shì |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ zye$^X$ › |
| Old Chinese | /*Cə.leʔ/ |
| English | lick |
| 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 | 舐 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 11524 |
| Phonetic component | 氏 |
| Rime group | 支 |
| Rime subdivision | 0 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 舓 |
| Old Chinese | /*ɦljeʔ/ |
| Notes | 俗舓字見莊子 |

#### Definitions

舐
* to lick; to lap; to stroke with the tongue

#### Synonyms

| Variety | Location | Words |
| Classical Chinese | Classical Chinese | 舐 |
| Formal (Written Standard Chinese) | Formal (Written Standard Chinese) | 舔 |
| Northeastern Mandarin | Beijing | 舔 |
| Northeastern Mandarin | Taiwan | 舔 |
| Northeastern Mandarin | Singapore | 舔 |
| Jilu Mandarin | Jinan | 舔 |
| Central Plains Mandarin | Wanrong | 舔 |
| Central Plains Mandarin | Xi'an | 舔 |
| Central Plains Mandarin | Xining | 舔 |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Chengdu | 舔 |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Wuhan | 舔 |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Guilin | 舔 |
| Jianghuai Mandarin | Yangzhou | 舔 |
| Jianghuai Mandarin | Hefei | 舔 |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou | 𦧺, 舔, 舐 |
| Cantonese | Hong Kong | 𦧺, 舔 |
| Cantonese | Hong Kong (San Tin; Weitou) | 舔, 𦧺 |
| Cantonese | Hong Kong (Ting Kok) | 舔 |
| Cantonese | Hong Kong (Tung Ping Chau) | 𦧺 |
| Cantonese | Taishan | 舐, 舔 |
| Cantonese | Dongguan | 舐 |
| Cantonese | Yangjiang | 舐, 舔 |
| Cantonese | Kuala Lumpur (Guangfu) | 𦧺 |
| Cantonese | Singapore (Guangfu) | 𦧺 |
| Gan | Nanchang | 舔 |
| Hakka | Meixian | 舐 |
| Hakka | Xingning | 舐 |
| Hakka | Huidong (Daling) | 舐 |
| Hakka | Shaoguan (Qujiang) | 舐 |
| Hakka | Lianshan (Xiaosanjiang) | 舐 |
| Hakka | Changting | 舐 |
| Hakka | Wuping | 舐 |
| Hakka | Wuping (Pingyu) | 舐 |
| Hakka | Liancheng | 舐 |
| Hakka | Ninghua | 舐 |
| Hakka | Ruijin | 舐 |
| Hakka | Shicheng | 舐 |
| Hakka | Shangyou (Shexi) | 舐 |
| Hakka | Miaoli (N. Sixian) | 舐 |
| Hakka | Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian) | 舐 |
| Hakka | Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu) | 舐 |
| Hakka | Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu) | 舐 |
| Hakka | Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping) | 舐 |
| Hakka | Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an) | 㐁 |
| Hakka | Hong Kong | 舐 |
| Hakka | Senai (Huiyang) | 舐 |
| Jin | Taiyuan | 舔 |
| Jin | Xinzhou | 舔涮 |
| Northern Min | Jian'ou | 狧 |
| Northern Min | Songxi | 狧 |
| Northern Min | Zhenghe | 狧 |
| Northern Min | Jianyang | 狧 |
| Northern Min | Wuyishan | 狧 |
| Northern Min | Pucheng (Shibei) | 狧 |
| Eastern Min | Fuzhou | 𩞨 |
| Eastern Min | Fuzhou (Changle) | 𩞨 |
| Eastern Min | Fuqing | 𩞨 |
| Eastern Min | Yongtai | 𩞨 |
| Eastern Min | Gutian | 𩞨 |
| Eastern Min | Fu'an | 𩞨 |
| Eastern Min | Ningde | 𩞨 |
| Eastern Min | Shouning | 𩞨 |
| Eastern Min | Zhouning | 𩞨 |
| Eastern Min | Fuding | 𩞨 |
| Southern Min | Xiamen | 舐 |
| Southern Min | Quanzhou | 舐 |
| Southern Min | Yongchun | 舐 |
| Southern Min | Zhangzhou | 舐, 哴 |
| Southern Min | Penang (Hokkien) | jilat |
| Southern Min | Manila (Hokkien) | 舐 |
| Southern Min | Longyan | 舐 |
| Southern Min | Chaozhou | 舐 |
| Southern Min | Johor Bahru (Teochew) | 舐 |
| Southern Min | Haikou | 舐 |
| Southern Min | Tunchang | 舐 |
| Wu | Shanghai | 舔 |
| Wu | Shanghai (Chongming) | 舔 |
| Wu | Suzhou | 舔 |
| Wu | Hangzhou | 舔 |
| Wu | Ningbo | 舔 |
| Wu | Wenzhou | 舔, 舐 |
| Xiang | Changsha | 舔 |
| Xiang | Shuangfeng | 舔 |

#### Compounds

* 吮癰舐痔 / 吮痈舐痔
* 老牛舐犢 / 老牛舐犊
* 舐犢 / 舐犊
* 舐犢之愛 / 舐犊之爱
* 舐犢情深 / 舐犊情深 (shìdúqíngshēn)
* 舐痔
* 舐癰吮痔 / 舐痈吮痔
* 舐糠及米

### Etymology 2
#### Pronunciation

* Cantonese (Jyutping): lim$^2$ / lem$^2$
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: lim$^2$ / lem$^2$
*** Cantonese Pinyin: lim$^2$ / lem$^2$
*** Guangdong Romanization: lim$^2$ / lém$^2$
*** Sinological IPA : /liːm³⁵/, /lɛːm³⁵/

#### Definitions

舐
* (Cantonese) Alternative form of 舔 (“to lick”)

### References

* (Cantonese) 粵音資料集叢
* “舐”, 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–
* 小川尚義 (OGAWA Naoyoshi), editor (1931–1932), “舐”, in 臺日大辭典 [Taiwanese-Japanese Dictionary]‎ (overall work in Hokkien and Japanese), Taihoku: Government-General of Taiwan, →OCLC
* 小川尚義 (OGAWA Naoyoshi), editor (1931–1932), “舐”, in 臺日大辭典 [Taiwanese-Japanese Dictionary]‎ (overall work in Hokkien and Japanese), Taihoku: Government-General of Taiwan, →OCLC
* 莆田市政协文化文史和学习委员会 [Culture, History and Learning Committee of Putian CPPCC], editor (2021), “舐”, in 莆仙方言大词典 [Comprehensive Dictionary of Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 478.
* 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “舐”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 211.

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
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#### Readings

* Go-on: じ (ji)
* Kan-on: し (shi)
* Kun: なめる (nameru, 舐める)、ねぶる (neburu, 舐る)

## Korean
### Hanja

舐 (eum 지 (ji))
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## Vietnamese
### Han character

舐: Hán Việt readings: thỉ, thị, để
舐: Nôm readings: liếm, thỉ
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#### References

* Nom Foundation