死心

Chinese

		to die; impassable; uncrossable to die; impassable; uncrossable; inflexible; rigid	heart; mind
trad. (死心)		死	心
simp. #(死心)		死	心

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): sǐxīn

  (Zhuyin): ㄙˇ ㄒㄧㄣ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): sei² sam¹
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): sí-sîm
• Eastern Min (BUC): sī-sĭng
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): sí-sim

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: sǐxīn
    • Zhuyin: ㄙˇ ㄒㄧㄣ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: sǐhsin
    • Wade–Giles: ssŭ³-hsin¹
    • Yale: sž-syīn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: syyshin
    • Palladius: сысинь (sysinʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sz̩²¹⁴⁻²¹ ɕin⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: sei² sam¹
    • Yale: séi sām
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sei² sam¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: séi² sem¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sei̯³⁵ sɐm⁵⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: sí-sîm
    • Hakka Romanization System: xi` xim´
    • Hagfa Pinyim: xi³ xim¹
    • Sinological IPA: /si³¹ sim²⁴/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: sī-sĭng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /si³³⁻²¹ ^(s-)liŋ⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sí-sim
    • Tâi-lô: sí-sim
    • Phofsit Daibuun: sysym
    • IPA (Xiamen): /si⁵³⁻⁴⁴ sim⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /si⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ sim³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /si⁵³⁻⁴⁴ sim⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /si⁵³⁻⁴⁴ sim⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /si⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ sim⁴⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: sijX sim

Rime
Character	死	心
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	心 (16)	心 (16)
Final (韻)	脂 (17)	侵 (139)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	息姊切	息林切
Baxter	sijX	sim
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/sˠiɪX/	/siɪm/
Pan Wuyun	/sᵚiX/	/sim/
Shao Rongfen	/siɪX/	/sjem/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/sjiX/	/sim/
Li Rong	/sjiX/	/siəm/
Wang Li	/siX/	/sĭĕm/
Bernard Karlgren	/siX/	/si̯əm/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	sǐ	xīn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	si2	sam1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*sijʔ  səm/

  (Zhengzhang): /*hljiʔ  slɯm/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	死	心
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	sǐ	xīn
Middle Chinese	‹ sijX ›	‹ sim ›
Old Chinese	/*sijʔ/	/*səm/
English	die (v.)	heart
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	死	心
Reading #	1/1	1/1
No.	12006	13801
Phonetic component	死	心
Rime group	脂	侵
Rime subdivision	2	1
Corresponding MC rime	死	心
Old Chinese	/*hljiʔ/	/*slɯm/

Verb

死⫽心 (verb-object)

1. to give up on; to drop

   你就死了這條心吧。 [MSC, trad.]
   你就死了这条心吧。 [MSC, simp.]

   Nǐ jiù sǐ le zhè tiáo xīn ba. [Pinyin]

   Just drop it.

   • 必須懂得，沒有肅清的暗藏的反革命分子是不會死心的，他們必定要乘機搗亂。 [MSC, trad.]
     必须懂得，没有肃清的暗藏的反革命分子是不会死心的，他们必定要乘机捣乱。 [MSC, simp.]

     From: 1957, 毛澤東 (Mao Zedong), 《關於正確處理人民內部矛盾的問題》 (On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People), 《毛澤東選集》. English translation based on the Foreign Languages Press edition

     Bìxū dǒngde, méiyǒu sùqīng de àncáng de fǎngémìng fènzǐ shì bù huì sǐxīn de, tāmen bìdìng yào chéngjī dǎoluàn. [Pinyin]

     It must be understood that the hidden counter-revolutionaries still at large will not take things lying down, but will certainly seize even opportunity to make trouble.

Synonyms

• (Hokkien) 煞心

Noun

死心

1. (literary) willingness and determination to serve till death

   • 今太子走，諸善太子者，皆有死心。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     今太子走，诸善太子者，皆有死心。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: Zhanguo Ce, circa 5^th – 3^rd centuries BCE

     Jīn tàizǐ zǒu, zhū shàn tàizǐ zhě, jiē yǒu sǐxīn. [Pinyin]

     (please add an English translation of this usage example)

Derived terms

• 死心塌地 (sǐxīntādì)