什

See also: 甚
什 U+4EC0, 什
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-4EC0
← 亿
[U+4EBF] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 仁 →
[U+4EC1]
什 U+F9FD, 什
CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-F9FD
← 識
[U+F9FC] 		CJK Compatibility Ideographs 茶 →
[U+F9FE]

Translingual
Stroke order
0 strokes
Stroke order

Han character

什 (Kangxi radical 9, 人+2, 4 strokes, cangjie input 人十 (OJ), four-corner 24200, composition ⿰亻十)

References

Chinese

Glyph origin
Historical forms of the character 什
Warring States Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Qin slip script Small seal script
Small seal script

s05782

Transcribed ancient scripts

L38517

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 (十) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
針 *kjum, *kjums
汁 *kjub
卙 *kʰljub
十 *ɡjub
什 *ɡjub

Etymology 1
trad. 什/甚*
simp. 什

Pronunciation

Definitions

什

  1. Only used in 什麼／什么 (shénme).

Compounds

Etymology 2
simp. and trad.
 什

Pronunciation

Note:
  • sap6 - literary;
  • zaap6 - variant (“miscellaneous” or alternative form of 雜).
Rime
Character 什
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 常 (25)
Final (韻) 緝 (141)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 是執切
Baxter dzyip
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /d͡ʑiɪp̚/
Pan
Wuyun		 /d͡ʑip̚/
Shao
Rongfen		 /d͡ʑjep̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /d͡ʑip̚/
Li
Rong		 /ʑiəp̚/
Wang
Li		 /ʑĭĕp̚/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ʑi̯əp̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 shí
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex		 sap6
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 什
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 shí
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ dzyip ›
Old
Chinese		 /*t.[ɡ]əp/
English troop of ten men

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 什
Reading # 1/1
No. 11453
Phonetic
component		 十
Rime
group		 緝
Rime
subdivision		 3
Corresponding
MC rime		 十
Old
Chinese		 /*ɡjub/

Definitions

什

  1. † (census) ten families
  2. † troop of ten men
  3. † set of ten poems
  4. † Alternative form of 十 (shí, “ten”), usually used in fractions or multiples.
  5. miscellaneous; assorted
  6. Alternative form of 雜／杂 (zá)
  7. a surname

Compounds

Etymology 3
simp. and trad.
 什

Pronunciation

Definitions

什

  1. Only used in 通什.

Etymology 4
simp. and trad.
 什

Pronunciation

Note: siahⁿ/sahⁿ - at the end of a phrase.

Definitions

什

  1. (Hokkien) Alternative form of 啥 (“what”)

Japanese

Kanji
什

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. (financial, obsolete) ten

Readings

Korean

Hanja

什 • (sip, jip) (hangeul 십, 집, revised sip, jip, McCune–Reischauer sip, chip)

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Vietnamese

Han character

什: Hán Nôm readings: thập, lặt, thậm

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References
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