尸

尸 (Kangxi radical 44, 尸+0, 3 strokes, cangjie input 尸 (S), four-corner 7720₇, composition ⿰丿コ)

1. Kangxi radical #44, ⼫.

• Appendix:Chinese radical/尸
• 㕧, 迉, 𤰨, 𮓴, 𧥤, 𣢁, 𨾋, 鳲(鸤), 凥, 杘, 𣢂, 𧿃, 𨾈, 䬤, 孱, 䲩, 羼
• 戸, 户, 戶, 𠔅, 卢, 𡔜, 𠧕, 𢛥, 𡖀, 𥣡, 𦎾

• ㄕ

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 299, character 26
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7630
• Dae Jaweon: page 595, character 7
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 963, character 14
• Unihan data for U+5C38

Historical forms of the character 尸
Shang		Western Zhou	Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions	Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Qin slip script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Pictogram (象形) - A man with his legs bending, and a side to the front. The picture is variously interpreted as either sitting or lying.

When used as a radical, 尸 is usually derived from a variation of 人 or 亻, as in 尾.

尸

1. (historical) a living person who represents the dead person during a rite
2. dead body

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. corpse; cadaver

• Go-on: し (shi)
• Kan-on: し (shi)
• Kun: かたしろ (katashiro, 尸); しかばね (shikabane, 尸)

尸(かばね) • (kabane)  (alternative reading hiragana しかばね, rōmaji shikabane)

1. Alternative spelling of 屍 (“corpse; cadaver”)

尸 (eum 시 (si))

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Most likely from the Old Chinese initial of 尸 (OC *hli). Other, but less likely, hypotheses include that it was a graphic abbreviation of some other character with initial */l/ (but no such character has been easily identified), or that it was invented in Korea (but there would appear to be no motivation for this, given the commonness of /l/ in all stages of Chinese).

尸 (*-l or *-lh)

1. A consonantal phonogram denoting coda consonant *-l or *-lh.

   ‎道 (“road”, logogram) + ‎尸 (*-l, coda-marking phonogram) → ‎道尸 (*KIl(h), “road”)

   ‎二 (“two”, logogram) + ‎尸 (*-l, coda-marking phonogram) → ‎二尸 (*TWUPUl(h), “two”)

Note that Old Korean distinguished liquid 尸 (*-l) and rhotic 乙 (*-r), though the two merged in Middle Korean.

• 肹 (*-(hu)r)
• 乙 (*-r)

尸 (*-lq)

1. The irrealis/prospective verbal gerund-marking suffix:
   1. what will, one who will, what to, what is, one who is, etc.; used to nominalize a verb in the future or in a general sense.
      • c. 1250, Interpretive gugyeol glosses to the Yogācārabhūmi-Śāstra, page 11.117:

        [於]思惟^乎尸所 ^良中疑^是隨逐^乎尸有^叱㢱

        *SO.YU-hoyo-l PA-akuy UY-i SYU.TYUK-hoyo-lq Is-umye

        As there is the following of doubt in that which one reflects

        (N.B. Gugyeol glyphs are given in non-abbreviated forms. Bracketed terms were ignored when read.)

      • c. 1250, Interpretive gugyeol glosses to the Humane King Sutra, pages 3.10—11:

        作樂^乎尸刀亦^乎隱然^叱乎示下

        CAK.AK-ho-lq-two STWO-ho-n [?]-s-ho-si-ha

        The [honored] ones who make music [the honored music-makers] also did as such

        (N.B. Gugyeol glyphs are given in non-abbreviated forms.)

   2. which will, [something] to, which is, etc.; used as an adnominal, but chiefly for dependent nouns and certain common constructions.
      • 765, 忠談師 (Chungdamsa), “安民歌 (Anmin-ga)”, in 三國遺事 (Samguk Yusa) [Memorabilia of the Three Kingdoms]:

        君隱父也臣隱愛賜尸母史也

        *NIMKUM-un AP-ye SIN-un TOSU-si-lq Esi-ye

        The sovereign is a father; the ministers are loving mothers

      • c. 1250, Interpretive gugyeol glosses to the Yogācārabhūmi-Śāstra, page 11.117:

        [於]思惟^乎尸所 ^良中疑^是隨逐^乎尸有^叱㢱

        *SO.YU-hoyo-lq PA-akuy UY-i SYU.TYUK-hoyo-l Is-umye

        As there is the following of doubt in that which one reflects

        (N.B. Gugyeol glyphs are given in non-abbreviated forms. Bracketed terms were ignored when read.)

   3. Used to introduce a statement being quoted.

• 隱 (*-n, realis gerund)

尸 (*-lq or *-q or *-s)

1. A genitive case marker chiefly attested after honored animate nouns.

There is a strong argument that 尸 represents an allomorphic variant of the well-known genitive particle 叱 (*-s) rather than an independent genitive case marker. Middle Korean ㅭ (-lq) and Modern Korean ㄹ (-l) both have the effect of tensing a subsequent consonant. Tensing was also one of the major allomorphs of Middle Korean ㅅ (-s), see ㅅ#Alternative forms, and is virtually the sole effect of Modern Korean ㅅ (-s-). Therefore, Old Korean 尸 was most likely used to denote the tensing effect of 叱 (*-s).

This notion is further supported by the fact that Middle Korean ㅅ (-s) is the regular reflex of 尸. For instance, Old Korean 尸中 (*qkuy, honorific dative marker) > Middle Korean ᄭᅴ (skuy, id.) > Modern Korean 께 (kke, id.)

• 황선엽 (Hwang Seon-yeop) et al. (2009) 석독구결사전/釋讀口訣辭典 [Dictionary of interpretive gugyeol], Bakmunsa, →ISBN, pages 411—549
• 장윤희 (Jang Yun-hui) (2011) “석독구결의 속격 "시(尸)"의 문제 해결을 위하여 [seokdokgugyeorui sokgyeok -siui munje haegyeoreul wihayeo, For a solution to the problem of genitive 尸 in interpretive gugyeol]”, in Gugyeol Yeon'gu, volume 27, pages 117–144
• Nam Pung-hyun (2012) “Old Korean”, in Tranter, Nicolas, editor, The Languages of Japan and Korea, Routledge, →ISBN, pages 41–72
• 이병기 (Yi Byeong-gi) (2019) “고대국어 동명사 어미의 문법적 특징과 과제 [godaegugeo dongmyeongsa eomiui munbeopjeok teukjinggwa gwaje, The grammatical features of Old Korean verbal nominalizers and further tasks for research]”, in Gugyeol Yeon'gu, volume 43, →DOI, pages 89–125

尸: Hán Nôm readings: thi

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