私讎

See also: 私雠 and 私讐

Chinese

		personal; private; selfish	enmity; feud
trad. (私讎)		私	讎
simp. (私雠)		私	雠
alternative forms		私仇

Pronunciation

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Rime
Character	私	讎
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	心 (16)	常 (25)
Final (韻)	脂 (15)	尤 (136)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	息夷切	市流切
Baxter	sij	dzyuw
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/siɪ/	/d͡ʑɨu/
Pan Wuyun	/si/	/d͡ʑiu/
Shao Rongfen	/sjɪ/	/d͡ʑiəu/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/si/	/d͡ʑuw/
Li Rong	/si/	/ʑiu/
Wang Li	/si/	/ʑĭəu/
Bernhard Karlgren	/si/	/ʑi̯ə̯u/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	sī	chóu
Expected Cantonese Reflex	si1	sau4

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	私	讎
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	sī	chóu
Middle Chinese	‹ sij ›	‹ dzyuw ›
Old Chinese	/*[s]əj/	/*[d]u/
English	private	pay back; enemy
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	私	讎
Reading #	1/1	1/1
No.	11949	1515
Phonetic component	厶	雔
Rime group	脂	幽
Rime subdivision	1	1
Corresponding MC rime	私	讎
Old Chinese	/*sil/	/*ɡju/

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): sīchóu

  (Zhuyin): ㄙ ㄔㄡˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): si¹ sau⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)
    • Hanyu Pinyin: sīchóu
    • Zhuyin: ㄙ ㄔㄡˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: sihchóu
    • Wade–Giles: ssŭ¹-chʻou²
    • Yale: sz̄-chóu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: sychour
    • Palladius: сычоу (syčou)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sz̩⁵⁵ ʈ͡ʂʰoʊ̯³⁵/
    • Homophones:
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: si¹ sau⁴
    • Yale: sī sàuh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: si¹ sau⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: xi¹ seo⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /siː⁵⁵ sɐu̯²¹/
    • Homophones:

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• Middle Chinese: sij dzyuw

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[s]əj  [d]u/

  (Zhengzhang): /*sil  ɡju/

Noun

私讎

1. (archaic) personal grudge

Synonyms

• 私仇 (sīchóu)

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (私讎):

• → Japanese: 私(し)讐(しゅう) (shishū)
• → Korean: 사수(私讐) (sasu)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
私	讎
し Grade: 6	しゅう Hyōgai
kan'on

For pronunciation and definitions of 私讎 – see the following entry.

【私讐ししゅう】 [noun] personal grudge

(This term, 私讎, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)