亖

See also: 四 and 肆

亖 U+4E96, 亖 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-4E96 ← 井 [U+4E95] CJK Unified Ideographs 亗 → [U+4E97]

Translingual

Han character

亖 (Kangxi radical 7, 二+2, 4 strokes, Cangjie input 一一一一 (MMMM), four-corner 1010₁, composition ⿱二二)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 87, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 259
• Dae Jaweon: page 183, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 10, character 2
• Unihan data for U+4E96

Chinese

Etymology 1

trad.		亖
simp.		四*

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 亖
Shang		Western Zhou	Spring and Autumn	Warring States		Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions	Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Bronze inscriptions	Bronze inscriptions	Chu slip and silk script	Shizhoupian script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Ideogram (指事) - four parallel lines. Quadruplication of 一. Compare 二 and 三. Firstly appeared in oracle bone script and commonly used before Qin Dynasty. It became obsolete after the standardization of writing in the Qin dynasty.

Definitions

For pronunciation and definitions of 亖 – see 四 (“four; in or from the four directions; etc.”). (This character is an ancient form of 四).

Etymology 2

simp. and trad.		亖

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): sǐ (si³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄙˇ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: sǐ
    • Zhuyin: ㄙˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: sǐh
    • Wade–Giles: ssŭ³
    • Yale: sž
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: syy
    • Palladius: сы (sy)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sz̩²¹⁴/

Definitions

1. (Internet slang) alternative form of 死 (sǐ)

   累亖  ―  lèisǐ  ―  extremely tired

   笑亖  ―  xiàosǐ  ―  extremely funny

   把自己玩亖  ―  bǎ zìjǐ wán sǐ  ―  to play yourself to extremes (death)

Japanese

Kanji

亖

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. (archaic) four

Readings

• Go-on: し (shi)
• Kan-on: し (shi)
• Kun: よ (yo, 亖)、よつ (yotsu, 亖つ)、よっつ (yottsu, 亖つ)、よん (yon, 亖)

Usage notes

Non-standard variant of 四.