司
Meanings
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- 1.surname Si
- 1.to take charge of
- 2.to manage
- 3.department (under a ministry)
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Wiktionary
- 1.to take charge of; to control; to manage
- 2.officer; official
- 3.Used in transcription.
- 4.a surname
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Etymology
Inconclusive. * Jì Xùshēng: a mouth 口 giving orders and a scepter 刁 of authority. * Liú Xìnglóng interprets 刁 to be a hand instead. * Táng Lán: Originally the same character as 后, which later diverged. * Shuowen: 后 flipped. From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *zə; cognate with Proto-Kukish *ca, Mru caŋ (“to do; to make”), and Tibetan མཛད (mdzad, “to do; to act”), མཛོད (mdzod), possibly also related to བཟོ (bzo, “work, labour”) (Schuessler, 2007). Schuessler disputes Löffler's (1966) proposed connection of these cognates to 作 (OC *ʔsaːɡs, *ʔsaːɡs, *ʔsaːɡ, “to do, work, make”) due to phonological difficulties. Unger (1984) posits a possible relationship with Tibetan རྫི་པོ (rdzi po, “herdsman”).
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Stroke order
Components
Components from cjk-decomp · MIT
Example sentences
我不想吃壽司。
I don't feel like eating sushi.
她不喜歡壽司。
She doesn't like sushi.
我會請你吃壽司。
I'll treat you to sushi.
讓我們吃壽司吧。
Let's eat sushi.
司機應該繫安全帶。
Drivers should wear seat belts.
他是個糟糕的司機。
He is a bad driver.
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Derived terms
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