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Number: 154
Chinese etymology: Chinese etymology
Character:
MC description : 止開三上止生
ZIHUI: 0670 0503
Beijing: ṣî_ 2
Jinan: ṣî_ 2
Xi'an: si_ 2
Taiyuan: si_ 2
Hankou: si_ 2
Chengdu: si_ 2
Yangzhou: si_ 2
Suzhou: si_ 2
Wenzhou: si_ 21
Changsha: ṣî_ 2
Shuangfeng: ṣî_ 2
Nanchang: si_ 2
Meixian: si_ 2
Guangzhou: ši 21
Xiamen: su 2
Chaozhou: si_ 21
Fuzhou: sy 2
Shanghai: si_ 3
Zhongyuan yinyun: ši_ 2
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Modern (Beijing) reading: shǐ
Preclassic Old Chinese: srǝʔ
Classic Old Chinese: srǝ́
Western Han Chinese: ṣǝ́
Eastern Han Chinese: ṣǝ́
Early Postclassic Chinese: ṣɨ́
Middle Postclassic Chinese: ṣɨ́
Late Postclassic Chinese: ṣɨ́
Middle Chinese: ṣɨ́
English meaning : secretary
Russian meaning[s]: 1) история; исторический; анналы; летопись; 2) историограф, летописец; древн. хранитель библиотеки; 3) Ши (фамилия)
Comments: A later attested, but no doubt archaic meaning is 'annals, history, record', which makes Schüssler's identification of 史 and 使 'send, cause' dubious.
Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology
Dialectal data: Dialectal data
Radical: 30
Four-angle index: 6419
Karlgren code: 0975 a-f
Vietnamese reading: su`'
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Sino-Tibetan etymology :

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Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *riǝH
Meaning: draw, delineate, write
Chinese: *srǝʔ a recorder, scribe; a record.
Tibetan: ri-mo figure, picture, painting, drawing, ãbri draw, write, bris picture.
Burmese: rijh to write, delineate, paint; rij to count, calculate.
Kachin: (Mat.) mǝri2, (Ben.) mǝriʔ to mark, line.
Lushai: rīn draw a line, scratch, a line, a scratch.
Kiranti: *(b)rek
Comments: Trung bri2 to write. Sh. 39; Ben. 103; Mat. 184. ? Cf. Austric: PAN *karis, *-ris 'scratch a line', PAA *ra:jh / *riajh 'scratch, comb', ? Tai *gra:t 'rake'.
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Kiranti etymology :

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Proto-Kiranti: *rek ( / *b(h)r-)
Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology
Meaning: write
Sunwar: brēk-ca write, draw
Tulung: rɛk-
Kaling: 'renä ('rehtu)
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