獅子

See also: 狮子

Chinese

lion
 
child; son; (noun suff.); small thing; midnight; 11 p.m.-1 a.m.; seed; egg; 1st earthly branch
trad. (獅子) 獅 子
simp. (狮子) 狮 子

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 獅 子
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Initial (聲) 生 (21) 精 (13)
Final (韻) 脂 (17) 之 (19)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division (等) Chongniu III III
Fanqie 疏夷切 即里切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ʃˠiɪ/ /t͡sɨX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ʃᵚi/ /t͡sɨX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ʃiɪ/ /t͡sieX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ʂji/ /t͡sɨX/
Li
Rong		 /ʃji/ /t͡siəX/
Wang
Li		 /ʃi/ /t͡sĭəX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ʂi/ /t͡siX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 shī zǐ
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 子 子
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 zǐ zǐ
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ tsiX › ‹ tsiX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[ts]əʔ/ /*tsəʔ/
English 1st earthly branch child; gentleman, master

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 獅 子
Reading # 1/1 1/1
No. 11437 17857
Phonetic
component		 師 子
Rime
group		 脂 之
Rime
subdivision		 2 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 師 子
Old
Chinese		 /*sri/ /*ʔslɯʔ/
Notes 古作師

Noun

獅子

  1. lion (Classifier: 隻／只 m c; 頭／头 m)
  2. (Buddhism) bodhisattva

Derived terms

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (獅子):

Proper noun

獅子

  1. (astrology, astronomy) Short for 獅子座／狮子座 (Shīzizuò, “Leo”).

See also

Japanese

Kanji in this term
獅 子
し
Jinmeiyō		 し
Grade: 1
on’yomi

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 獅子 (ʃˠiɪ t͡sɨX, literally “lion + (diminutive suffix)”).

Pronunciation

Noun

獅子 (hiragana しし, katakana シシ, rōmaji shishi)

  1. a lion (big cat Panthera leo), regarded as king of animals
    • 1999 July 5, “レオ・ウィザード [Leo Wizard]”, in BOOSTER 3 (in Japanese), Konami:
      黒 (くろ)いマントをはおった魔 (ま)術 (じゅつ)師 (し)。正 (しょう)体 (たい)は言 (こと)葉 (ば)を話 (はな)すシシ。
      Kuroi manto o haotta majutsushi. Shōtai wa kotoba o hanasu shishi.
      A wizard in a black cloak who is actually a talking lion.
    • 2007 October 20, Hiroshi, Izawa; Kotaro, Yamada, “最さい終しゅう話わ　それぞれの道みちへ [Final Chapter: Epilog]”, in ファイアーエムブレム 覇者の剣 [Fire Emblem: Sword of Champions], volume 5 (fiction, in Japanese), Jump Remix edition, Tokyo: Shueisha, →ISBN, page 350:
      若 (わか)き獅 (し)子 (し)ロイ
      Wakaki Shishi Roi
      Roy, Young Lion
  2. (by extension from the "king" sense) the Buddha, a Buddha
  3. short for 獅子舞 (shishimai), a traditional Chinese lion dance
  4. short for 獅子頭 (shishigashira), the lion mask traditionally worn for the lion dance
  5. short for 除夜の獅子 (joya no shishi, “New Year's lion”), a person dressed in costume as for a lion dance who goes door to door begging on New Year's Eve
  6. a guardian statue commonly found outside temples and shrines, often with a komainu statue, the tradition for which is said to have come over from the Korean peninsula

Synonyms

Derived terms

Proper noun

獅子 (hiragana しし, rōmaji Shishi)

  1. the name of the lion dance 囃子 (hayashi, “musical accompaniment”) in various noh and kabuki plays
  2. the first piece of music played in a 伎楽 (gigaku) performance (more commonly spelled 師子)

References

  1. ↑ 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  • 1988, 国語大辞典（新装版） (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan

Vietnamese

Hán tự in this word
獅子

Noun

獅子

  1. Hán tự form of sư tử, “lion”
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