仕

仕	U+4ED5, 仕 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-4ED5

← 仔
[U+4ED4]

CJK Unified Ideographs

他 →
[U+4ED6]

Translingual

Han character

仕 (radical 9, 人+3, 5 strokes, cangjie input 人土 (OG), four-corner 2421₀, composition ⿰亻士)

References

KangXi: page 92, character 7

Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 368

Dae Jaweon: page 195, character 10

Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 112, character 3

Unihan data for U+4ED5

Chinese

simp. and trad.		仕

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 仕

**Bronze inscriptions**
b12243

**Small seal script**
s05662

**Transcribed ancient scripts**
L34132	L34133

References:

Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation),
which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including:

Shuowen Jiezi (small seal),
Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions),
Liushutong (Liushutong characters) and
Yinxu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).

Characters in the same phonetic series (士) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
茌	*zrɯ
士	*zrɯʔ
仕	*zrɯʔ

Etymology

See 士 "servant, retainer, officer, scholar, gentleman"

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): shì (shi⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄕˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): si⁶

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: shì
  - Zhuyin: ㄕˋ
  - Wade–Giles: shih⁴
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shyh
  - Tongyong Pinyin: shìh
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂʐ̩⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: si⁶
  - Yale: sih
  - Cantonese Pinyin: si⁶
  - Guangdong Romanization: xi⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /siː²²/

Middle Chinese: /d͡ʒɨ^X/▼

Rime
Character	仕
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	崇 (20)
Final (韻)	之 (19)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	鉏里切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/d͡ʒɨ^X/
Pan Wuyun	/ɖ͡ʐɨ^X/
Shao Rongfen	/d͡ʒie^X/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɖ͡ʐɨ^X/
Li Rong	/d͡ʒiə^X/
Wang Li	/d͡ʒĭə^X/
Bernard Karlgren	/ɖ͡ʐʱi^X/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zhì

Old Chinese▼
(Baxter–Sagart): /*[m-s-]rəʔ/

(Zhengzhang): /*zrɯʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	仕
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	shì
Middle Chinese	‹ dzri^X ›
Old Chinese	/*[m-s-]rəʔ/
English	serve
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	仕
Reading #	1/1
No.	11512
Phonetic component	士
Rime group	之
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	士
Old Chinese	/*zrɯʔ/

Definitions

仕

scholar; official; guardian
to serve in the government
(Chinese chess) adviser; guard; minister (on the red side)
A surname.

Coordinate terms

(Chinese chess pieces) 帥/將, 仕/士, 相/象, 俥/車, 傌/馬, 炮/砲, 兵/卒

Compounds

不仕 (bùshì)
仕女 (shìnǚ)
仕宦
仕版
仕紳／仕绅
仕譯／仕译
仕途 (shìtú)

仕進／仕进
出仕 (chūshì)
學優而仕／学优而仕 (xuéyōu'érshì)
將仕郎／将仕郎
干仕
強仕／强仕

懸車致仕／悬车致仕
求仕 (qiúshì)
筮仕 (shìshì)
膴仕
致仕
貴仕／贵仕

Japanese

Kanji

仕

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

Go-on: じ (ji, Jōyō, uncommon)
Kan-on: し (shi, Jōyō)
Kun: つかえる (tsukaeru, 仕える, Jōyō)^{←つかへる (tukaferu, historical)}; つかまつる (tsukamatsuru, 仕る)
Nanori: つこう (tsukō)

Compounds

仕 (し)上 (あ)がり (shiagari, “finish, end, completion”)
仕 (し)上 (あ)げ (shiage, “end, finishing touches”)
仕 (し)上 (あ)げる (shiageru, “finish up, complete”)
仕 (し)入 (い)れ (shiire, “stocking, buying up”)
仕 (し)入 (い)れる (shiireru, “lay in stock, replenish stock”)
仕 (し)打 (う)ち (shiuchi, “treatment, behavior, action”)
仕 (し)送 (おく)り (shiokuri, “allowance, remittance”)
仕 (し)掛 (か)け (shikake, “device, contrivance, trick”)
仕 (し)掛 (か)ける (shikakeru, “commence, lay, set”)
仕 (し)方 (かた) (shikata, “way, method, means”)
仕 (し)方 (かた)がない (shikata ga nai), 仕 (し)方 (かた)ない (shikata nai, “it can't be helped”)
仕 (し)切 (き)り (shikiri, “partition, division, boundary”)
仕 (し)切 (き)る (shikiru, “partition, divide, mark off”)
仕 (し)草 (ぐさ) (shigusa, “action, acting, gesture”)
仕 (し)組 (く)み (shikumi, “structure, construction, arrangement”)
仕 (し)事 (ごと) (shigoto, “work, job, business”)
仕 (し)事 (ごと)中 (ちゅう) (shigotochū, “at work, working”)
仕 (し)事 (ごと)始 (はじ)め (shigotohajime, “resuming work after New Year's vacation”)
仕 (し)事 (ごと)場 (ば) (shigotoba, “place where one works”)
仕 (し)込 (こ)み (shikomi, “training, stocking up”)
仕 (し)立 (た)て (shitate, “tailoring, dressmaking, sewing”)
仕 (し)立 (た)てる (shitateru, “tailor, make, prepare”)
仕 (し)手 (て) (shite, “doer, performer”)
お仕 (し)舞 (ま)い (oshimai, “the end, closing”)
仕 (し)舞 (ま)う (shimau, “finish, do something completely”)
仕 (し)様 (よう) (shiyō, “way, method, means”)
仕 (し)業 (わざ) (shiwaza, “deed, act, action”)
仕 (つか)える (tsukaeru, “serve, work for, attend”)
奉 (ほう)仕 (し) (hōshi, “attendance, service, ministry”)

Noun

仕 (hiragana し, rōmaji shi)

official, civil service
仕 (し)を致 (いた)す
shi o itasu
to resign from public office

Korean

Hanja

仕 • (sa) (hangeul 사)

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Vietnamese

Han character

仕 (sĩ, sải, sảy, sãi, sẻ, sễ, sẽ, sì, sẩy, sè, sõi, sỡi, xảy)

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References

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