ㄙ

See also: 厶 and ㄙﾞ

ㄙ U+3119, ㄙ BOPOMOFO LETTER S ← ㄘ [U+3118] Bopomofo ㄚ → [U+311A]

Translingual

Stroke order

Letter

ㄙ

1. type: initial consonant
2. general transliteration: s
3. keyboard key: N

Descendants

• ㄙﾞ, ,

Chinese

Glyph origin

Old variant of ㄙ

Derived from 厶, ancient form of 私 (sī) (Mandarin: sī).

Etymology

Initial consonant derived from 厶, ancient form of 私 (sī) (Mandarin: sī) + rhyme.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): sī (si¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄙ

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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/

Letter

1. 21st letter of the Zhuyin alphabet
2. 30th letter of the extended Zhuyin alphabet

Phoneme

1. (when followed by a rhyme) Sound IPA^(key): /s/ (Pinyin: s), which is commonly present in Chinese, apart from Cantonese.
2. (when standing alone) Sound IPA^(key): /sz̩/ (Pinyin: s).

   alt. forms: ㄙㄭ obsolete, analytic

References

• 全國主要方言區方音對照表, Chinese Character Reform Commission, Beijing: ZhonghuaBook Company, 1954
• Unicode Bopomofo block description: https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U3100.pdf

Northern Qiandong Miao

Letter

1. 24th letter of the Hmu Zhuyin alphabet.

Phoneme

1. sound IPA^(key): /s/ (Hutton): s

References

• Joakim Enwall, A Myth Become Reality Vol.1 (Stockholm, 1994) page 198