隰

隰 U+96B0, 隰 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-96B0 ← 隯 [U+96AF] CJK Unified Ideographs 隱 → [U+96B1]

Translingual

Han character

隰 (Kangxi radical 170, 阜+14, 17 strokes, cangjie input 弓中日女火 (NLAVF), four-corner 7623₃, composition ⿰阝㬎)

1. low, damp land, marsh, swamp

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1362, character 12
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 41889
• Dae Jaweon: page 1865, character 13
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4162, character 6
• Unihan data for U+96B0

Chinese

simp. and trad.		隰

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
儑	*ŋɯːms, *ŋɯːb, *ŋaːb
濕	*ŋ̊ʰl'ɯːb, *hŋjɯb
漯	*tŋ̊ʰɯːb
礘	*ŋɯːb
隰	*ljɯb
溼	*hŋjɯb

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ljɯb) : 阜 + 㬎

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xí (xi²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zaap⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xí
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: sí
    • Wade–Giles: hsi²
    • Yale: syí
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shyi
    • Palladius: си (si)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: zaap⁶
    • Yale: jaahp
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzaap⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: zab⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡saːp̚²/

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• Middle Chinese: zip

Rime
Character	隰
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	邪 (17)
Final (韻)	侵 (141)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	似入切
Baxter	zip
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ziɪp̚/
Pan Wuyun	/zip̚/
Shao Rongfen	/zjep̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/zip̚/
Li Rong	/ziəp̚/
Wang Li	/zĭĕp̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/zi̯əp̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xí
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zap6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*s-N-qip/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ljɯb/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	隰
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	xí
Middle Chinese	‹ zip ›
Old Chinese	/*s-N-qip/
English	low, wet ground
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	隰
Reading #	1/1
No.	11445
Phonetic component	濕
Rime group	緝
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	習
Old Chinese	/*ljɯb/

Definitions

隰

1. low wet land

   • 隰有萇楚，猗儺其枝。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad.]
     隰有苌楚，猗傩其枝。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11^th – 7^th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

     Xí yǒu chángchǔ, ēnuó qí zhī. [Pinyin]

     In the low wet grounds is the carambola tree;
     Soft and pliant are its branches.

2. newly cultivated field
3. (～縣) Xi County, Xixian (a county of Linfen, Shanxi, China)

Descendants

• → English: Xi

Japanese

Kanji

隰

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: じゅう (jū)^{←じふ (zifu, historical)}
• Kan-on: しゅう (shū)^{←しふ (sifu, historical)}
• Kan’yō-on: しつ (shitsu)
• Kun: さわ (sawa, 隰)

Korean

Hanja

隰 • (seup) (hangeul 습, revised seup, McCune–Reischauer sŭp, Yale sup)

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Vietnamese

Han character

隰: Hán Nôm readings: thấp

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