屎

屎 U+5C4E, 屎
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5C4E
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[U+5C4D] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 屏 →
[U+5C4F]

Translingual

Han character

屎 (radical 44, 尸+6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 尸火木 (SFD), four-corner 77294, composition ⿸尸米)

References
  • KangXi: page 301, character 25
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7689
  • Dae Jaweon: page 598, character 15
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 973, character 6
  • Unihan data for U+5C4E

Chinese
simp. and trad.
 屎

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

Ideogrammic compound (會意) : 尸 (“body”) + 米 (“rice”). The 米 component was originally three to five dots (four dots was the most common one; faeces coming out of the backside) in the oracle bone script, thus representing a man defecating.

Etymology 1

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *kləj (“excrement”).

Pronunciation
Note:
  • sái - vernacular;
  • sí/sír/sú - literary.
Rime
Character 屎
Reading # 2/2
Initial (聲) 書 (26)
Final (韻) 脂 (17)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) Chongniu III
Fanqie 式視切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ɕˠiɪX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ɕᵚiX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ɕiɪX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ɕjiX/
Li
Rong		 /ɕjiX/
Wang
Li		 /ɕiX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ɕiX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 shǐ
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 屎
Reading # 1/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 shǐ
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ syijX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[qʰ]ijʔ/
English excrement

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 屎
Reading # 1/2
No. 11399
Phonetic
component		 尸
Rime
group		 脂
Rime
subdivision		 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 矢
Old
Chinese		 /*hliʔ/

Definitions

屎

  1. excrement; poop (Classifier: 坨 m; 篤／笃 c; 坺 c)
  2. secretion from the body; tear, earwax, snot, etc.
  3. residue; waste; debris
  4. (vulgar) worthless; useless; despicable
  5. (vulgar) useless thing
Synonyms

Compounds
Derived terms from 屎

Etymology 2

Pronunciation
Rime
Character 屎
Reading # 1/2
Initial (聲) 曉 (32)
Final (韻) 脂 (15)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 喜夷切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /hiɪ/
Pan
Wuyun		 /hi/
Shao
Rongfen		 /xjɪ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /hi/
Li
Rong		 /xi/
Wang
Li		 /xi/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /xi/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 xī
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 屎
Reading # 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 xī
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ xjij ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[qʰ]ij/ (dialect: *qʰ- > *x-, no palatalization)
English moan

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 屎
Reading # 2/2
No. 11401
Phonetic
component		 尸
Rime
group		 脂
Rime
subdivision		 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 咦
Old
Chinese		 /*hri/

Definitions

屎

  1. † Only used in 殿屎 (“to groan”).

Japanese

Kanji
屎

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. excrement, feces, poop

Readings
  • Go-on: し (shi)
  • Kan-on: し (shi)
  • Kun: くそ (kuso, 屎); ばば (baba, 屎)

Etymology 1
Kanji in this term
屎
くそ
Hyōgaiji
kun’yomi

From Proto-Japonic *kuso. Cognate with 臭い (kusai, “stinky, smelly”), 腐る (kusaru, “to rot, to become stinky”).[1]

Pronunciation

Alternative forms

Noun

屎 (hiragana くそ, rōmaji kuso)

  1. (colloquial) feces, excrement
Derived terms
Derived terms
Idioms
Idioms
  • 屎 (くそ)にする (kuso ni suru): “to turn something into shit; to treat something as shit” → to make something worthless; to treat something as worthless
  • 屎 (くそ)の役 (やく)にも立 (た)たぬ (kuso no yaku ni mo tatanu): “not even standing in the role of shit” → not even good for shit
    (See 役 (やく)に立 (た)つ (yaku ni tatsu): “to be useful, to play a role”)
  • 屎 (くそ)も味 (み)噌 (そ)も一 (いっ)緒 (しょ) (kuso mo miso mo issho): “both crap and miso together” → a situation where it is difficult to tell the good from the bad

Interjection

屎 (hiragana くそ, rōmaji kuso)

  1. (swear word) shit
Usage notes

This is not considered as profane as the English glosses. For instance, a child of five using the Japanese interjection kuso would be unremarkable, whereas it would be very socially inappropriate for a child of five to use the English interjection shit.

Prefix

屎 (hiragana くそ, rōmaji kuso-)

  1. A derogatory prefix.
    屎 (くそ)爺 (じじ)い
    kusojijī
    crappy old man

Suffix

屎 (hiragana くそ, rōmaji -kuso)

  1. A derogatory emphasizing suffix.
    下 (へ)手 (た)屎 (くそ)
    hetakuso
    crappy bad at something; to be shit at doing something
    襤 (ぼ)褸 (ろ)屎 (くそ)
    borokuso
    broken down for shit, raggedy-ass

Etymology 2
Kanji in this term
屎
ばば
Hyōgaiji
kun’yomi

Appears to derive from baby talk.[1][2] Compare English poopoo.

Pronunciation

Alternative forms

Noun

屎 (hiragana ばば, rōmaji baba)

  1. (children's word): poopoo, poop, dookie
  2. (children's word): something unclean
Idioms
Idioms
  • 猫屎 (ねこばば)する (nekobabasuru): to sweep something under the rug → to hide a problem without actually dealing with it (from how a cat will bury its poop)

References
  1. 1988, 国語大辞典（新装版） (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan
  2. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  3. 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

屎 • (si) (hangeul 시, revised si, McCune–Reischauer si)

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Vietnamese

Han character

屎 (thỉ, xái)

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