窸

窸 U+7AB8, 窸 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7AB8 ← 窷 [U+7AB7] CJK Unified Ideographs 窹 → [U+7AB9]

Translingual

Han character

窸 (Kangxi radical 116, 穴+11, 16 strokes, cangjie input 十金竹木心 (JCHDP), four-corner 3033₉, composition ⿱穴悉 or ⿱𥦓心)

1. faint sound, whisper

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 868, character 3
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 25631
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2740, character 20
• Unihan data for U+7AB8

Chinese

trad.		窸
simp. #		窸

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
僁	*siːd, *sid
悉	*sid
蟋	*sid, *srid
窸	*sid

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xī (xi¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): sik¹
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): sih⁶

---

• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xī
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: si
    • Wade–Giles: hsi¹
    • Yale: syī
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shi
    • Palladius: си (si)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: sik¹
    • Yale: sīk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sik⁷
    • Guangdong Romanization: xig¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɪk̚⁵/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: sih⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɬiʔ¹/
  • (Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: sih⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɬiʔ²/

---

• Middle Chinese: sit

Rime
Character	窸
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	心 (16)
Final (韻)	質 (48)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	息七切
Baxter	sit
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/siɪt̚/
Pan Wuyun	/sit̚/
Shao Rongfen	/sjet̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/sit̚/
Li Rong	/siĕt̚/
Wang Li	/sĭĕt̚/
Bernhard Karlgren	/si̯ĕt̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xi
Expected Cantonese Reflex	sat1

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*sid/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	窸
Reading #	1/1
No.	13342
Phonetic component	悉
Rime group	質
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	悉
Old Chinese	/*sid/

Definitions

窸

1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

Compounds

• 窸窣 (xīsū)
• 窸窸窣窣 (xīxīsūsū)

 

References

• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “窸”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 252.