Zi:史
史 [shǐ] (历史 lìshǐ) history; (surname)
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“Hand holding a style (pen) and writing on a 囗 wooden block” —Karlgren.
It isn’t clear what the hand was originally holding; it looked like 中 (zhōng) ‘middle’ in the oldest characters. It appears that 史 shǐ ‘history’, 事 shì ‘event’, and 吏 lì ‘officer’, and the right side of 使 shǐ ‘make’ were all originally the same: a hand holding some unknown object. These words are believed to be cognates.
►references: Guǎngyùn:252.09; Wieger:43m; Karlgren:AD885,GSR975a; Hànyǔ Dà Zìdiǎn:1.571.2; Mathews:5769; Kāngxī Zìdiǎn:173.03; Bǐshùn Guīfàn:015.0.10
►components: 中
►Cantonese: si/
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