# 逝

| 逝 | U+901D, &#36893; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-901D |
| ← 逜 [U+901C] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 逞 → [U+901E] |

## Translingual
### Han character

逝 (Kangxi radical 162, 辵+7, 11 strokes in traditional Chinese and Korean, 10 strokes in mainland China and Japanese, cangjie input 卜手竹中 (YQHL), four-corner 3230$_2$, composition ⿺辶折)

#### Derived characters

* 𭊅, 𩻔

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 1258, character 8
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 38895
* Dae Jaweon: page 1746, character 2
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3835, character 8
* Unihan data for U+901D

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

* Historical forms of the character 逝
* Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
* Small seal script
| | Old Chinese |
| 晢 | *ʔljeds, *ʔljed |
| 狾 | *ʔljeds |
| 誓 | *ɦljeds |
| 逝 | *ɦljeds |
| 銴 | *ɢljeds, *ɢʷleds |
| 折 | *l'eːl, *ʔljed, *ɦljed |
| 娎 | *hleːws, *qʰred |
| 哳 | *ʔr'eːd |
| 踅 | *sɢʷled |
| 哲 | *ʔl'ed |
| 蜇 | *ʔl'ed |
| 悊 | *ʔl'ed |
| 嚞 | *ted |
| 喆 | *ted |
| 硩 | *l̥ʰed, *l̥ʰeːɡ |
| 浙 | *ʔljed |
| 晣 | *ʔljed |
| 焎 | *hred |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ɦljeds): semantic 辵 (“walking”) + phonetic 折 (OC *l'eːl, *ʔljed, *ɦljed)

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): shì (shi$^4$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄕˋ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): sai$^6$
* Eastern Min (BUC): siê
* Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): se$^5$
* Southern Min
    (Hokkien, POJ): sē / sī / sè / chōa / sōa
    (Teochew, Peng'im): si$^7$
* Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): $^6$zy
* 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/
* Eastern Min
** (Fuzhou)
*** Bàng-uâ-cê: siê
*** Sinological IPA : /siɛ²⁴²/
* Puxian Min
** (Putian, Xianyou)
*** Pouseng Ping'ing: se$^5$
*** Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: sā̤
*** Sinological IPA : /ɬe²¹/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien: Quanzhou, General Taiwanese, Xiamen)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sē
*** Tâi-lô: sē
*** Phofsit Daibuun: se
*** IPA (Xiamen): /se²²/
*** IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /se³³/
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /se⁴¹/
** (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sī
*** Tâi-lô: sī
*** Phofsit Daibuun: si
*** IPA (Zhangzhou): /si²²/
** (Hokkien: Xiamen)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sè
*** Tâi-lô: sè
*** Phofsit Daibuun: sex
*** IPA (Xiamen): /se²¹/
** (Hokkien: Quanzhou, General Taiwanese)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chōa
*** Tâi-lô: tsuā
*** Phofsit Daibuun: zoa
*** IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /t͡sua³³/
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sua⁴¹/
** (Hokkien: General Taiwanese, Xiamen)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sōa
*** Tâi-lô: suā
*** Phofsit Daibuun: soa
*** IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /sua³³/
*** IPA (Xiamen): /sua²²/
* sē/sī - literary;
* chōa/sōa - vernacular;
* sè - vernacular (俗).
* Middle Chinese: dzyejH
Rime :
| Character | 逝 |
| 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]at-s/
    (Zhengzhang): /*ɦljeds/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 逝 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | shì |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ dzyej$^H$ › |
| Old Chinese | /*[d]at-s/ |
| English | go to |
| 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 | 逝 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 16935 |
| Phonetic component | 折 |
| Rime group | 祭 |
| Rime subdivision | 2 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 逝 |
| Old Chinese | /*ɦljeds/ |

### Definitions

逝
* to flow
    From: 14th Century, Yang Shen, The Immortals by the River, line 1
    Gǔngǔn Cháng Jiāng dōng shì shuǐ, lànghuā táo jìn yīngxióng. [Pinyin]
    Dinning and spinning Changjiang's waters eastward flow; its sprays drowning each and every hero.
    From: Li Daoyuan, Commentary on the Water Classic, 386-534 CE
    èr chuān bìng shì, jù wèi yī shuǐ, [Pinyin]
    The two creeks flow side-by-side then merge into one brook,
* to pass; to leave; to go off
    From: The Analects of Confucius, c. 475 – 221 BCE
    Rìyuè shì yǐ, suì bù wǒ yǔ. [Pinyin]
    The days and months are passing away; the years do not wait for us.
* to pass away; to die
* (literary) Sentence-initial exclamatory particle.
* (Southern Min) Classifier for journeys or occasions.
* Alternative form of 誓 (shì, “to vow”)

### Compounds

* 亡逝
* 仙逝 (xiānshì)
* 傷逝 / 伤逝
* 夭逝
* 奄然而逝
* 崩逝
* 新逝
* 早逝 (zǎoshì)
* 水逝雲卷 / 水逝云卷
* 永逝 (yǒngshì)
* 流逝 (liúshì)
* 消逝 (xiāoshì)
* 溘然長逝 / 溘然长逝
* 溘逝
* 猋逝
* 病逝 (bìngshì)
* 瞑目而逝
* 稍縱即逝 / 稍纵即逝 (shāozòngjíshì)
* 薨逝 (hōngshì)
* 逝世 (shìshì)
* 逝去 (shìqù)
* 逝川
* 逝者如斯 (shìzhěrúsī)
* 長逝 / 长逝 (chángshì)
* 風馳電逝 / 风驰电逝
* 飛逝 / 飞逝 (fēishì)

### References

* “逝”, 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–
* “逝”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2025.
* 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “逝”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 211.

## Japanese

| Shinjitai | 逝 |
| Kyūjitai | 逝󠄁 逝+&#xE0101; (Adobe-Japan1) |
| Kyūjitai | 逝󠄃 逝+&#xE0103; (Hanyo-Denshi) (Moji_Joho) |
| The displayed kanji may be different from the image due to your environment. See here for details. |||

### Kanji

(Jōyō kanji)
* to go
* to die

#### Readings

* Go-on: ぜ (ze)
* Kan-on: せい (sei, Jōyō)
* On: せつ (setsu)
* Kun: ゆく (yuku, 逝く, Jōyō)、いく (iku, 逝く, Jōyō)、さる (saru, 逝る)

### References

* ↑ “逝”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎ (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2025

## Korean
### Hanja

逝 • (seo) (hangeul 서, revised seo, McCune–Reischauer sŏ, Yale se)
* This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

## Vietnamese
### Han character

逝: Hán Nôm readings: thệ, thể
* This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.