颸

See also: 飔

颸 U+98B8, 颸 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-98B8 ← 颷 [U+98B7] CJK Unified Ideographs 颹 → [U+98B9]

Translingual

Han character

颸 (Kangxi radical 182, 風+9, 18 strokes, cangjie input 竹弓田心 (HNWP), four-corner 7621₃, composition ⿺風思)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1413, character 27
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 43888
• Dae Jaweon: page 1935, character 19
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4488, character 3
• Unihan data for U+98B8

Chinese

trad.		颸
simp.		飔

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 颸
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

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

	Old Chinese
崽	*ʔslɯːʔ, *srɯː, *srɯː
偲	*sn̥ʰɯː, *snɯ
腮	*snɯː
鰓	*snɯː
揌	*snɯː
顋	*snɯː
愢	*snɯː
毢	*snɯː
諰	*srɯː, *snɯʔ
細	*snɯːls
思	*snɯ, *snɯs
緦	*snɯ
罳	*snɯ
禗	*snɯ
楒	*snɯ
葸	*snɯʔ
恖	*snɯ
颸	*sʰrɯ
囟	*snɯns
顖	*sniŋs
毸	*snɯː

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *sʰrɯ) : phonetic 思 (OC *snɯ, *snɯs) + semantic 風.

Etymology

Attested late: in Shuowen Jiezi and Chuci.

Unger (1984) notes 颸／飔 (sī) resemblance to Tibetan རྫི (rdzi, “wind”), which Schuessler (2007) derives instead from earlier *riy and further from Proto-Tibeto-Burman *g-ləy (“wind”) (> Proto-Tani *rji (“wind”) & Burmese လေ (le, “wind, air”)); Schuessler sees a more promising link to White Hmong cua (ibid.) (< Proto-Hmong-Mien *N-cæwH > Iu Mien nziaaux) (all meaning "wind").

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): sī (si¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄙ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ci¹, si¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: sī
    • Zhuyin: ㄙ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: sih
    • Wade–Giles: ssŭ¹
    • Yale: sz̄
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: sy
    • Palladius: сы (sy)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sz̩⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: ci¹, si¹
    • Yale: chī, sī
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsi¹, si¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: qi¹, xi¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰiː⁵⁵/, /siː⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: tsrhi

Rime
Character	颸
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	初 (19)
Final (韻)	之 (19)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	楚持切
Baxter	tsrhi
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡ʃʰɨ/
Pan Wuyun	/ʈ͡ʂʰɨ/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡ʃʰie/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʈ͡ʂʰɨ/
Li Rong	/t͡ʃʰiə/
Wang Li	/t͡ʃʰĭə/
Bernard Karlgren	/ʈ͡ʂʰi/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	chī
Expected Cantonese Reflex	ci1

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*sʰrɯ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	颸
Reading #	1/1
No.	13845
Phonetic component	囟
Rime group	之
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	輜
Old Chinese	/*sʰrɯ/

Definitions

颸

1. (literary) strong wind
2. (literary) cool breeze

Compounds

• 南颸／南飔
• 寒颸／寒飔
• 晚颸／晚飔
• 晴颸／晴飔
• 暮颸／暮飔
• 曾颸／曾飔
• 涼颸／凉飔
• 緒颸／绪飔
• 輕颸／轻飔
• 金颸／金飔
• 陰颸／阴飔
• 霜颸／霜飔 (shuāngsī)
• 頑颸／顽飔
• 颸厲／飔厉
• 颸風／飔风
• 颸颸／飔飔
• 魯颸／鲁飔

 

References

• “颸”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[2], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Japanese

Kanji

颸

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. cool breeze of autumn

Readings

• On (unclassified): し (shi)
• Kun: すずしいかぜ (suzushīkaze)