執事

See also: 执事

Chinese
execute (a plan); grasp
 
matter; thing; item
matter; thing; item; work; affair
trad. (執事) 執 事
simp. (执事) 执 事

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 執 事
Reading # 1/1 2/2
Initial (聲) 章 (23) 崇 (20)
Final (韻) 緝 (141) 之 (19)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division (等) III III
Fanqie 之入切 鉏吏切
Baxter tsyip dzriH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /t͡ɕiɪp̚/ /d͡ʒɨH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /t͡ɕip̚/ /ɖ͡ʐɨH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /t͡ɕjep̚/ /d͡ʒieH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /cip̚/ /ɖ͡ʐɨH/
Li
Rong		 /t͡ɕiəp̚/ /d͡ʒiəH/
Wang
Li		 /t͡ɕĭĕp̚/ /d͡ʒĭəH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /t͡ɕi̯əp̚/ /ɖ͡ʐʱiH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 zhi zhì
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex		 zap1 zi6
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 執 事
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 zhí shì
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ tsyip › ‹ dzriH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[t]ip/ /*[m-s-]rəʔ-s/
English seize serve; service, affair

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 執 事
Reading # 1/1 2/2
No. 17290 11486
Phonetic
component		 執 史
Rime
group		 緝 之
Rime
subdivision		 2 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 執 事
Old
Chinese		 /*tjib/ /*zrɯs/
Notes 甲金文象梏人雙手，
幸象梏非聲		 史吏轉註字

Noun

執事

  1. (Christianity) deacon
  2. (literary) attendant
  3. (literary) your Excellency
  4. (literary) job; duties

Synonyms
  • (job):

Verb

執事

  1. (literary) to perform one's job

Japanese
Kanji in this term
執 事
しつ
Grade: S		 じ
Grade: 3
on’yomi

Pronunciation

Noun

執(しつ)事(じ) • (shitsuji) 

  1. Steward; butler.
  2. Court official.
  3. Deacon (Anglican, Lutheran, etc.).

Coordinate terms

References
  1. Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK Publishing, →ISBN
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