笥

笥 U+7B25, 笥 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7B25 ← 笤 [U+7B24] CJK Unified Ideographs 符 → [U+7B26]

Translingual

Han character

笥 (Kangxi radical 118, 竹+5, 11 strokes, cangjie input 竹尸一口 (HSMR), four-corner 8862₇, composition ⿱𥫗司)

Derived characters

• 𥯱

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 880, character 17
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 25934
• Dae Jaweon: page 1308, character 12
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 2959, character 6
• Unihan data for U+7B25

Chinese

trad.		笥
simp. #		笥

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
司	*slɯ
伺	*slɯ, *slɯs
覗	*slɯ, *slɯs
笥	*slɯ, *slɯs
詞	*ljɯ
祠	*ljɯ
柌	*ljɯ
嗣	*ljɯs
孠	*ljɯs
飼	*ljɯs
呞	*hljɯ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): sì (si⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄙˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zi⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: sì
    • Zhuyin: ㄙˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: sìh
    • Wade–Giles: ssŭ⁴
    • Yale: sz̀
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: syh
    • Palladius: сы (sy)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sz̩⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: zi⁶
    • Yale: jih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzi⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: ji⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡siː²²/

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• Middle Chinese: siH

Rime
Character	笥
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	心 (16)
Final (韻)	之 (19)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	相吏切
Baxter	siH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/sɨH/
Pan Wuyun	/sɨH/
Shao Rongfen	/sieH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/sɨH/
Li Rong	/siəH/
Wang Li	/sĭəH/
Bernard Karlgren	/siH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	sì
Expected Cantonese Reflex	si3

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*slɯ/, /*slɯs/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	笥	笥
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	11954	11956
Phonetic component	司	司
Rime group	之	之
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	思	笥
Old Chinese	/*slɯ/	/*slɯs/

Definitions

笥

1. hamper, wicker basket

Japanese

Kanji

笥

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. lunchbox
2. clothes chest

Readings

• Go-on: し (shi)
• Kan-on: し (shi)
• Tō-on: す (su)
• Kun: け (ke, 笥)、はこ (hako, 笥)

Compounds

Compounds

• 筐笥(きょうし) (kyōshi)
• 箪笥(たんす) (tansu)
• 掻上(かかげ)の笥(はこ) (kakage no hako)
• 千木(ちぎ)笥(ばこ) (chigibako)

Etymology

Kanji in this term
笥
け Hyōgai
kun'yomi

⟨ke₂⟩ → */kəɨ/ → /ke/

From Old Japanese.

Noun

笥(け) • (ke) 

1. a container, especially for foodstuffs or tableware

   Synonym: 容器 (yōki)

Derived terms

Derived terms

• 笥籠(けご), 笥子(けご) (kego)
• 飯(いい)笥(け) (iike)
• 桶(おけ), 麻笥(おけ) (oke)
• 麻小笥(おごけ) (ogoke)
• 掻(か)い笥(げ) (kaige)
• 餉(かれい)笥(け) (kareike)
• 供笥(くげ) (kuge)
• 櫛(くし)笥(げ) (kushige)
• 碁笥(ごけ) (goke)
• 笊笥(そうけ) (sōke)
• 玉(たま)笥(け) (tamake)
• 鉤笥(ちげ) (chige)

Korean

Hanja

笥 • (sa) (hangeul 사, revised sa, McCune–Reischauer sa, Yale sa)

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