犀

犀 U+7280, 犀
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7280
← 牿
[U+727F] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 犁 →
[U+7281]
犀 U+2F924, 犀
CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-2F924
← 𤘈
[U+2F923] 		CJK Compatibility Ideographs Supplement 犕 →
[U+2F925]

Translingual

Han character

犀 (radical 93, 牛+8, 12 strokes, cangjie input 尸水竹手 (SEHQ) or 尸卜卜手 (SYYQ), four-corner 77251, composition ⿸尸⿱氺牛)

Derived characters

References
  • KangXi: page 701, character 14
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 20045
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1114, character 23
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1815, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+7280

Chinese
simp. and trad.
 犀
variant forms 屖

Glyph origin
Characters in the same phonetic series (犀) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
摨 *rniːd
犀 *sliːl
遲 *l'il
墀 *l'il

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *sliːl) : phonetic 尾 (OC *mɯlʔ) + semantic 牛 (“ox”).

Etymology

Possibly from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *b-sej (“rhinoceros”).

Pronunciation
Note:
  • sai - vernacular;
  • se - literary.
Rime
Character 犀
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 心 (16)
Final (韻) 齊 (39)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) IV
Fanqie 先稽切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /sei/
Pan
Wuyun		 /sei/
Shao
Rongfen		 /sɛi/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /sɛj/
Li
Rong		 /sei/
Wang
Li		 /siei/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /siei/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 xī
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 犀
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 xī
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ sej ›
Old
Chinese		 /*s.lˁəj/
English rhinoceros

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 犀
Reading # 1/1
No. 13345
Phonetic
component		 犀
Rime
group		 脂
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 西
Old
Chinese		 /*sliːl/
Notes 說文尾聲

Definitions

犀

  1. rhinoceros
  2. sharp; hard; well-tempered (as metal)

Compounds
  • 一點靈犀／一点灵犀
  • 兩犀／两犀
  • 剔犀
  • 心有靈犀／心有灵犀 (xīnyǒulíngxī)
  • 披毛犀
  • 拔犀擢象
  • 拽象拖犀
  • 文犀
  • 木犀
  • 毛犀
  • 燃犀
  • 燃犀溫嶠／燃犀温峤
  • 燬犀
  • 牙簽犀軸／牙签犀轴
  • 犀兵
  • 犀利 (xīlì)
  • 犀帶／犀带
  • 犀渠
  • 犀照
  • 犀牛 (xīniú)
  • 犀牛望月
  • 犀牛角
  • 犀甲
  • 犀皮
  • 犀箸
  • 犀角
  • 犀銳／犀锐
  • 犀錢／犀钱
  • 犀革 (xīgé)
  • 犀頭／犀头
  • 犀首
  • 犀鳥／犀鸟 (xīniǎo)
  • 瓠犀
  • 白犀牛
  • 通天犀
  • 金木犀
  • 靈犀／灵犀 (língxī)
  • 靈犀相通／灵犀相通
  • 鬥犀臺／斗犀台

Japanese

Kanji
犀

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

Readings

Etymology
Kanji in this term
犀
さい
Jinmeiyō
on’yomi

From Middle Chinese 犀 (sej)

Pronunciation

Noun

犀 (hiragana さい, katakana サイ, rōmaji sai)

  1. a rhinoceros

Derived terms

References
  1. 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja

犀 • (seo) (hangeul 서, revised seo, McCune–Reischauer sŏ, Yale se)

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Vietnamese

Han character

犀 (tê, tây)

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