尸

See also: 戶, 户, 戸, 屍, ㄕ, and 𡰣
尸 U+5C38, 尸
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5C38
← 尷
[U+5C37] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 尹 →
[U+5C39]

Translingual
Stroke order

Han character

尸 (radical 44, 尸+0, 3 strokes, cangjie input 尸 (S), four-corner 77207, composition ⿰丿コ)

  1. Kangxi radical #44, ⼫.

Derived characters
  • Index:Chinese radical/尸

Descendants

References
  • KangXi: page 299, character 26
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7630
  • Dae Jaweon: page 595, character 7
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 963, character 14
  • Unihan data for U+5C38

Chinese

Glyph origin
Historical forms of the character 尸
Shang Western Zhou Warring States Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Qin slip script Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
Characters in the same phonetic series (尸) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
杘 *l̥ʰis
尸 *hli
鳲 *hli
屍 *hli, *hlis
屎 *hliʔ, *hri

Pictogram (象形) - A man with his legs bending, and a side to the front. The picture is variously interpreted as either sitting or lying.

When used as a radical, 尸 is usually derived from a variation of 人 or 亻, as in 尾.

Etymology 1
simp. and trad.
 尸

Pronunciation
Rime
Character 尸
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 書 (26)
Final (韻) 脂 (15)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 式之切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ɕiɪ/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ɕi/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ɕjɪ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ɕi/
Li
Rong		 /ɕi/
Wang
Li		 /ɕi/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ɕi/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 shī
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 尸
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 shī
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ syij ›
Old
Chinese		 /*l̥̥[ə]j/
English corpse

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 尸
Reading # 1/1
No. 11396
Phonetic
component		 尸
Rime
group		 脂
Rime
subdivision		 2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese		 /*hli/

Definitions

尸

  1. a living person who represents the dead person during a rite

Etymology 2
For pronunciation and definitions of 尸 – see 屍 (“corpse; carcass”).
(This character, 尸, is the simplified and variant form of 屍.)
Notes:

Japanese

Kanji
尸

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. corpse; cadaver

Readings
  • Go-on: し (shi)
  • Kan-on: し (shi)
  • Kun: かたしろ (katashiro, 尸); しかばね (shikabane, 尸)

Noun
Kanji in this term
尸
しかばね
Hyōgaiji
kun’yomi
Kanji in this term
尸
かばね
Hyōgaiji
kun’yomi

尸 (hiragana かばね, rōmaji kabane) (alternative reading hiragana しかばね, romaji shikabane)

  1. Alternative spelling of 屍 (“corpse; cadaver”)

Korean

Hanja

尸 • (si) (hangeul 시, revised si, McCune–Reischauer si, Yale si)

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Vietnamese

Han character

尸 (thi)

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