嗣

嗣 U+55E3, 嗣 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-55E3 ← 嗢 [U+55E2] CJK Unified Ideographs 嗤 → [U+55E4]

Translingual

Han character

嗣 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 口月尸一口 (RBSMR), four-corner 6722₀, composition ⿰⿱口𠕁司)

1. to connect, inherit
2. descendants, heirs

Derived characters

• 𭺂, 𦽊, 𫲱

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 203, character 30
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 4109
• Dae Jaweon: page 426, character 10
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 667, character 11
• Unihan data for U+55E3

Chinese

simp. and trad.		嗣
alternative forms		孠

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
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): sīr / sū / sû

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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/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sīr
    • Tâi-lô: sīr
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /sɯ⁴¹/
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sū
    • Tâi-lô: sū
    • Phofsit Daibuun: su
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /su³³/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /su²²/
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sû
    • Tâi-lô: sû
    • Phofsit Daibuun: suu
    • IPA (Taipei): /su²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /su²³/

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• Middle Chinese: ziH

Rime
Character	嗣
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	邪 (17)
Final (韻)	之 (19)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	祥吏切
Baxter	ziH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/zɨH/
Pan Wuyun	/zɨH/
Shao Rongfen	/zieH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/zɨH/
Li Rong	/ziəH/
Wang Li	/zĭəH/
Bernard Karlgren	/ziH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	sì
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zi6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*sə.lə-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ljɯs/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	嗣
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	sì
Middle Chinese	‹ ziH ›
Old Chinese	/*sə.lə-s/
English	succeed, inherit
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	嗣
Reading #	1/1
No.	11961
Phonetic component	司
Rime group	之
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	寺
Old Chinese	/*ljɯs/

Definitions

嗣

1. (literary) to inherit; to continue

   • 子產而死，誰其嗣之？ [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     子产而死，谁其嗣之？ [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: Commentary of Zuo, c. 4^th century BCE

     Zǐchǎn ér sǐ, shéi qí sì zhī? [Pinyin]

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 青青子衿，悠悠我心。縱我不往，子寧不嗣音。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad.]
     青青子衿，悠悠我心。纵我不往，子宁不嗣音。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11^th – 7^th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

     Qīngqīng zǐ jīn, yōuyōu wǒ xīn. Zòng wǒ bù wǎng, zǐ nìng bú sìyīn. [Pinyin]

     Blue-green are your collars. Anxious is my heart. Though I do not go, would you not continue your letters?

2. (literary) descendants

   • 信也，吾兄之盛德而夭其嗣乎？ [MSC, trad. and simp.]

     From: c. 803, Liu Zongyuan, 祭十二郎文

     Xìn yě, wú xiōng zhī shèngdé ér yāo qí sì hū? [Pinyin]

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

3. (literary) heir; successor
4. (literary) soon after

Compounds

• 世嗣宦族
• 令嗣
• 冢嗣
• 哲嗣
• 嗣主
• 嗣位 (sìwèi)
• 嗣君
• 嗣子 (sìzǐ)
• 嗣後／嗣后 (sìhòu)
• 嗣徽
• 嗣息
• 嗣承
• 嗣服
• 嗣業／嗣业
• 嗣歲／嗣岁
• 嗣父母
• 嗣產／嗣产
• 嗣續／嗣续
• 嗣適／嗣适
• 嗣音
• 嗣響／嗣响
• 嫡嗣
• 子嗣 (zǐsì)
• 孤嗣
• 廣嗣／广嗣
• 延壽添嗣／延寿添嗣
• 後嗣／后嗣 (hòusì)
• 承嗣
• 斬宗絕嗣／斩宗绝嗣
• 根嗣
• 求嗣
• 立嗣 (lìsì)
• 絕嗣／绝嗣 (juésì)
• 繼嗣／继嗣 (jìsì)
• 胤嗣 (yìnsì)
• 血嗣
• 覆宗絕嗣／覆宗绝嗣

 

Japanese

Kanji

嗣

(Jōyō kanji)

1. to inherit; to succeed (take over a position). See the variant form: 継ぐ.

Readings

• Go-on: じ (ji)
• Kan-on: し (shi, Jōyō)
• Kun: つぐ (tsugu, 嗣ぐ)

Korean

Hanja

嗣 • (sa) (hangeul 사, revised sa, McCune–Reischauer sa)

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Vietnamese

Han character

嗣: Hán Nôm readings: tự

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