螽斯

Chinese

		(grasshopper); Gompsocleis mikado	phonetic; this
simp. and trad. (螽斯)		螽	斯

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zhōngsī

  (Zhuyin): ㄓㄨㄥ ㄙ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zung¹ si¹
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): chiong-su

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zhōngsī
    • Zhuyin: ㄓㄨㄥ ㄙ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jhongsih
    • Wade–Giles: chung¹-ssŭ¹
    • Yale: jūng-sz̄
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jongsy
    • Palladius: чжунсы (čžunsy)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʊŋ⁵⁵ sz̩⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: zung¹ si¹
    • Yale: jūng sī
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzung¹ si¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: zung¹ xi¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʊŋ⁵⁵ siː⁵⁵/
    • Homophones:

      edit edit 宗師／宗师 螽斯

• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chiong-su
    • Tâi-lô: tsiong-su
    • Phofsit Daibuun: ciongsw
    • IPA (Xiamen): /t͡siɔŋ⁴⁴⁻²² su⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡siɔŋ³³ su³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡siɔŋ⁴⁴⁻²² su⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡siɔŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ su⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡siɔŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ su⁴⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: tsyuwng sje

Rime
Character	螽	斯
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	章 (23)	心 (16)
Final (韻)	東 (2)	支 (11)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	職戎切	息移切
Baxter	tsyuwng	sje
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡ɕɨuŋ/	/siᴇ/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡ɕiuŋ/	/siɛ/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡ɕiuŋ/	/sjɛ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/cuwŋ/	/siə̆/
Li Rong	/t͡ɕiuŋ/	/sie/
Wang Li	/t͡ɕĭuŋ/	/sǐe/
Bernard Karlgren	/t͡ɕi̯uŋ/	/sie̯/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zhōng	sī
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zung1	si1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*tuŋ  [s]e/

  (Zhengzhang): /*tjuŋ  se/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	螽	斯	斯
Reading #	1/1	1/3	2/3
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	zhōng	sī	sī
Middle Chinese	‹ tsyuwng ›	‹ sje ›	‹ sje ›
Old Chinese	/*tuŋ/	/*[s]e/	/*[s]e/
English	tsyuwng.sje locust	split (v.)	this
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	螽	斯
Reading #	1/1	1/1
No.	2429	11995
Phonetic component	冬	斯
Rime group	終	支
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	終	斯
Old Chinese	/*tjuŋ/	/*se/
Notes		朱駿聲雲斯爲會意字， 非其聲

Noun

螽斯

1. katydid; bush-cricket (Tettigoniidae)

   • 螽斯羽、詵詵兮。宜爾子孫、振振兮。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad.]
     螽斯羽、诜诜兮。宜尔子孙、振振兮。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, simp.]

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

     Zhōngsī yǔ, shēnshēn xī. Yí ěr zǐsūn, zhènzhèn xī. [Pinyin]

     Ye winged bush-crickets, how harmoniously ye collect together! Right is it that your descendants should be multitudinous!

Synonyms

• 絡緯／络纬 (luòwěi)
• 蚣蝑 (zhōngxū)
• 蚣䗥／蚣𰲯 (zhōngzōng)
• 蚣𧐱／蚣𬟺 (zhōngzōng)
• 𧌻蝑 (sōngxū)
• 蜙蝑 (sōngxū)
• 𧌻𧐱／𧌻𬟺 (sōngzōng)
• 蜙䗥／蜙𰲯 (sōngzōng)
• 𧐱蝑／𬟺蝑 (cóngxū)
• 䗥蝑／𰲯蝑 (zōngxū)
• 𧐍𧑓 (chōngshǔ)

 

Hyponyms

• 紡織娘／纺织娘 (fǎngzhīniáng)

Derived terms

• 螽斯之徵／螽斯之征
• 螽斯之德
• 螽斯之慶／螽斯之庆
• 螽斯振羽

 

Japanese

Kanji in this term
螽	斯
Hyōgaiji	Jinmeiyō
irregular

Alternative spellings
螽蟖 蟋蟀 蛬

Etymology

The kanji are jukujikun (熟字訓), from Chinese 螽斯 (zhōngsī)

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) きりぎ​りす [kìrígíꜜrìsù] (Nakadaka – [3])
• IPA^(key): [kʲiɾʲiɡʲiɾʲisɨᵝ]

Noun

螽斯(きりぎりす) or 螽斯(キリギリス) • (kirigirisu) 

1. a Japanese katydid (Gampsocleis buergeri)