誓

誓	U+8A93, 誓 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8A93

← 誒
[U+8A92]

CJK Unified Ideographs

誔 →
[U+8A94]

Translingual

Han character

誓 (radical 149 言+7, 14 strokes, cangjie input 手中卜一口 (QLYMR), four-corner 5260₁, composition ⿱折言)

swear, pledge
oath

References

KangXi: page 1162, character 1

Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 35514

Dae Jaweon: page 1627, character 1

Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3973, character 5

Unihan data for U+8A93

Chinese

simp. and trad.		誓

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 誓
Western Zhou	Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Bronze inscriptions	Chu Slip and silk script	Small seal script

Characters in the same phonetic series (折) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
晢	ʔljeds, ʔljed
狾	*ʔljeds
誓	*ɦljeds
逝	*ɦljeds
銴	ɢljeds, ɢʷleds
折	l'eːl, ʔljed, *ɦljed
娎	hleːws, qʰred
哳	*ʔr'eːd
踅	*sɢʷled
哲	*ʔl'ed
蜇	*ʔl'ed
悊	*ʔl'ed
嚞	*ted
喆	*ted
硩	l̥ʰed, l̥ʰeːɡ
浙	*ʔljed
晣	*ʔljed
焎	*hred

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ɦljeds) : phonetic 折 (OC *l'eːl, *ʔljed, *ɦljed) + semantic 言 (“speech”).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): shì (shi⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄕˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): sai⁶
Hakka (Sixian, PFS): sṳ
Min Nan (POJ): sē / sī / sè / chōa

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: shì
  - Zhuyin: ㄕˋ
  - Wade–Giles: shih⁴
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shyh
  - IPA ^(key): /ʂʐ̩⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: sai⁶
  - Yale: saih
  - Cantonese Pinyin: sai⁶
  - Guangdong Romanization: sei⁶
  - IPA ^(key): /sɐi̯²²/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: sṳ
  - Hakka Romanization System: sii
  - Hagfa Pinyim: si⁴
  - IPA: /sɨ⁵⁵/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Xiamen)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sē
  - Tâi-lô: sē
  - Phofsit Daibuun: se
  - IPA (Xiamen): /se²²/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /se⁴¹/
- (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sī
  - Tâi-lô: sī
  - Phofsit Daibuun: si
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /ɕi²²/
- (Hokkien: mainstream Taiwanese, Xiamen)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sè
  - Tâi-lô: sè
  - Phofsit Daibuun: sex
  - IPA (Taipei): /se¹¹/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung, Xiamen): /se²¹/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, mainstream Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chōa
  - Tâi-lô: tsuā
  - Phofsit Daibuun: zoa
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sua⁴¹/
  - IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /t͡sua²²/
  - IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /t͡sua³³/

Note:

sē/sī - literary;
chōa - vernacular;
sè - vernacular (俗).

Middle Chinese: /d͡ʑiᴇi^H/▼

Rime
Character	誓
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	常 (25)
Final (韻)	祭 (35)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	時制切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/d͡ʑiᴇi^H/
Pan Wuyun	/d͡ʑiɛi^H/
Shao Rongfen	/d͡ʑjæi^H/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/d͡ʑiaj^H/
Li Rong	/ʑiɛi^H/
Wang Li	/ʑĭɛi^H/
Bernard Karlgren	/ʑi̯ɛi^H/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	shì

Old Chinese▼
(Zhengzhang): /*ɦljeds/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	誓
Reading #	1/1
No.	16934
Phonetic component	折
Rime group	祭
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	逝
Old Chinese	/*ɦljeds/

Definitions

誓

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Japanese

Kanji

誓

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

Goon: ぜ (ze)
Kan’on: せい (sei, Jōyō)
Kan’yōon: ぜい (zei)
Kun: いましめる (imashimeru, 誓める); ちかい (chikai, 誓い)^{←ちかひ (tikafi, historical)}; ちかう (chikau, 誓う, Jōyō)^{←ちかふ (tikafu, historical)}

Korean

Hanja

誓 • (seo) (hangeul 서, revised seo, McCune–Reischauer sŏ, Yale se)

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Vietnamese

Han character

誓 (thệ, thề)

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