筮

筮	U+7B6E, 筮 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7B6E

← 筭
[U+7B6D]

CJK Unified Ideographs

筯 →
[U+7B6F]

Translingual

Han character

筮 (Kangxi radical 118, 竹+7, 13 strokes, cangjie input 竹一人人 (HMOO), four-corner 8810₈, composition ⿱𥫗巫)

Derived characters

噬, 𢶅, 澨, 𨼹, 遾, 㭀, 𥰰, 簭, 𥵼

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 885, character 23
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 26070
Dae Jaweon: page 1314, character 3
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 2972, character 4
Unihan data for U+7B6E

Chinese

trad.		筮
simp. ^#		筮
alternative forms		簭𥰰𥷂𥷣

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 筮
Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

	Old Chinese
噬	*djads
筮	*djads
簭	*djads
澨	*djads
遾	*djads

Ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意): 竹 (“bamboo”) + 巫 (“shaman”) + 𠬞 (“two hands”) – to divine using yarrow stalks or some kind of tools made of bamboo.

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): shì (shi⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄕˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): sai⁶
Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): se⁵
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): sē

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: shì
  - Zhuyin: ㄕˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: shìh
  - Wade–Giles: shih⁴
  - Yale: shr̀
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shyh
  - Palladius: ши (ši)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂʐ̩⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: sai⁶
  - Yale: saih
  - Cantonese Pinyin: sai⁶
  - Guangdong Romanization: sei⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɐi̯²²/
Puxian Min
- (Putian)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: se⁵
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɬe¹¹/
- (Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: se⁵
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɬe²¹/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sē
  - Tâi-lô: sē
  - Phofsit Daibuun: se
  - IPA (Xiamen): /se²²/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /se⁴¹/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /se²²/
  - IPA (Taipei): /se³³/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /se³³/

Middle Chinese: dzyejH

Rime
Character	筮
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	常 (25)
Final (韻)	祭 (35)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	時制切
Baxter	dzyejH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/d͡ʑiᴇi^H/
Pan Wuyun	/d͡ʑiɛi^H/
Shao Rongfen	/d͡ʑjæi^H/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/d͡ʑiaj^H/
Li Rong	/ʑiɛi^H/
Wang Li	/ʑĭɛi^H/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ʑi̯ɛi^H/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	shì
Expected Cantonese Reflex	sai⁶

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*[d][e][t]-s/

(Zhengzhang): /*djads/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	筮
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	shì
Middle Chinese	‹ dzyej^H ›
Old Chinese	/*[d][e][t]-s/
English	divine by Achillea stalks
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	筮
Reading #	1/1
No.	11658
Phonetic component
Rime group	祭
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	逝
Old Chinese	/*djads/

Definitions

筮

to divine using yarrow stalks
divination (using yarrow stalks)
divination with stalks of plants
divining rod

Compounds

卜筮 (bǔshì)
占筮 (zhānshì)
筮仕 (shìshì)
龜筮 / 龟筮

References

“筮”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “筮”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 212.

Japanese

Kanji

筮

(Hyōgai kanji)

fortunetelling; divination
divination sticks; fortune stick

Readings

Go-on: ぜ (ze)
Kan-on: せい (sei)
Kan’yō-on: ぜい (zei)
Kun: うらなう (uranau, 筮う)、めどぎ (medogi)

Compounds

筮竹(ぜいちく) (zeichiku)
卜筮(ぼくぜい) (bokuzei)

Etymology

Kanji in this term
筮
めどき Hyōgai
kun'yomi

Alternative spelling
蓍

Kanji in this term
筮
めどぎ Hyōgai
kun'yomi

Alternative spelling
蓍

Noun

筮(めどき) or 筮(めどぎ) • (medoki or medogi)

divination sticks, initially made of Lespedeza cuneata stalks, later of bamboo

Korean

Hanja

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

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

Vietnamese

Han character

筮: Hán Nôm readings: vầu, phệ, thệ

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