隰

隰	U+96B0, 隰 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-96B0

Translingual

Han character

隰 (Kangxi radical 170, 阜+14, 17 strokes, cangjie input 弓中日女火 (NLAVF), four-corner 7623₃, composition ⿰阝㬎)

low, damp land, marsh, swamp

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 1362, character 12
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 41889
Dae Jaweon: page 1865, character 13
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4162, character 6
Unihan data for U+96B0

Chinese

simp. and trad.		隰

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (濕) (Zhengzhang, 2003)

	Old Chinese
儑	ŋɯːms, ŋɯːb, *ŋaːb
濕	ŋ̊ʰl'ɯːb, hŋjɯb
漯	*tŋ̊ʰɯːb
礘	*ŋɯːb
隰	*ljɯb
溼	*hŋjɯb

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ljɯb) : semantic 阜 + phonetic 㬎.

Pronunciation 1

Mandarin
(Pinyin): xí (xi²)

(Zhuyin): ㄒㄧˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): zaap⁶
Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): sih⁶
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): si̍p

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: xí
  - Zhuyin: ㄒㄧˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: sí
  - Wade–Giles: hsi²
  - Yale: syí
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shyi
  - Palladius: си (si)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: zaap⁶
  - Yale: jaahp
  - Cantonese Pinyin: dzaap⁹
  - Guangdong Romanization: zab⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡saːp̚²/
Puxian Min
- (Putian)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: sih⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɬiʔ¹/
- (Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: sih⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɬiʔ²/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: si̍p
  - Tâi-lô: si̍p
  - Phofsit Daibuun: sip
  - IPA (Xiamen): /sip̚⁴/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /sip̚¹²¹/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /sip̚²⁴/

Middle Chinese: zip

Rime
Character	隰
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	邪 (17)
Final (韻)	緝 (141)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	似入切
Baxter	zip
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ziɪp̚/
Pan Wuyun	/zip̚/
Shao Rongfen	/zjep̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/zip̚/
Li Rong	/ziəp̚/
Wang Li	/zĭĕp̚/
Bernhard Karlgren	/zi̯əp̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xí
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zap⁶

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*s-N-qip/

(Zhengzhang): /*ljɯb/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	隰
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	xí
Middle Chinese	‹ zip ›
Old Chinese	/*s-N-qip/
English	low, wet ground
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	隰
Reading #	1/1
No.	11445
Phonetic component	濕
Rime group	緝
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	習
Old Chinese	/*ljɯb/

Definitions

隰

low wet land
- 隰有萇楚，猗儺其枝。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad.]
  隰有苌楚，猗傩其枝。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, simp.]
  From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11^th – 7^th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version
  Xí yǒu chángchǔ, ēnuó qí zhī. [Pinyin]
  In the low wet grounds is the carambola tree;
  Soft and pliant are its branches.
newly cultivated field
(～縣) Xi County, Xixian (a county of Linfen, Shanxi, China)

Pronunciation 2

Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): sip

Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sip
  - Tâi-lô: sip
  - Phofsit Daibuun: sib
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /sip̚⁵/
  - IPA (Xiamen): /sip̚³²/

Definitions

隰

(Xiamen and Quanzhou Hokkien) silent and not speaking; not disclosing anything
佯隰隰 [Hokkien] ― tìⁿ sip sip [Pe̍h-ōe-jī] ― to pretend not to know

Synonyms

(Hokkien) 嗇／啬 (sek)

Descendants

→ English: Xi

References

莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “隰”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 253.

Japanese

Kanji

隰

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

Go-on: じゅう (jū)^{←じふ (zifu, historical)}
Kan-on: しゅう (shū)^{←しふ (sifu, historical)}
Kan’yō-on: しつ (shitsu)
Kun: さわ (sawa, 隰)

Korean

Hanja

隰 • (seup) (hangeul 습, revised seup, McCune–Reischauer sŭp, Yale sup)

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Vietnamese

Han character

隰: Hán Nôm readings: thấp

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