Zi:私
私 [sī] (私人) personal; (私有) private; (自私) selfish; (HDZ:) (禾名); 个人的, 自己的 (ant. 公), (cf. 厶); …
One monosyllabic entry in The ABC Cantonese-English Dictionary (namespace Jyut):
►si1 私 b.f./char. ►daa2 si1 jan4 gung1 打私人工 ►hok6 haau6 si1 gaa1 siu2 baa1 學校私家小巴 ►paau2 si1 zung1 跑私鐘 ►si1 dau6/3 私竇
One monosyllabic entry in The ABC Chinese-English Comprehensive Dictionary (namespace Ci):
►³sī 私 {B} b.f. ①personal; private ►¹sīshì 私事 ②illegal ►zǒusī 走私 ③selfish ►zìsī 自私
The character 私() sī ‘(privately-owned) cereal/grain (farm/cropland)’ combines 禾 (hé) ‘cereal/grain’ (cropland), and 厶() sī ‘private’ (phonosemantic); cf. 厶.
Note: 私 was formerly 私田: 民田 ‘privately-owned farm/cropland’ (DYC), vs. 官田 ‘government-owned farmland’ (HDC); 私 sī ‘private’ referred to everyone except the emperor/imperials.
Note: (诗) (噫嘻) 駿發爾私 “Going vigorously to work on your private fields” (Legge).
Note: 厶() sī is said to be the old wr. of 私() sī; the old 私 ‘privately-owned cropland’ usage was lost, but survives somewhat in ‘private’.
“[私] Same word as 厶 sī (picture of a silk cocoon: secluded, private), character enlarged by 禾 (private) property” —Karlgren(1923).
Note: This 厶 sī ‘silk cocoon’ idea was Wieger's, apparently based on the 厶 shape in 糸(𢆯) sī ‘silk’, cf. 厶.
HDZ: 私 : sī : (禾名); 个人的, 自己的 (ant. 公), (cf. 厶); 秘密, 隐秘之事; (古) 私田; (古) 卿大夫的家臣; (古) 女子称姊妹之夫; 家族, 亲属 (私丧, 私忌, 私累); 宫廷中天子以下; (谦词) 自己; 便服; 邪, 不正; 非法的 (私盐, 私刑), 非法的货物 (贩私, 走私, 缉私); 个人的意见; (个人) 恩惠; 爱 (亲爱, 偏爱; 贪爱, 占有); 私下的生活言行; 私予, 贿赂; 养; 利; 小; (墨家) 事物; 溲溺, 小便; 发生不正当的男女关系; 生殖器; (副词) 独, 私自; 思: 思维, 思考 (老子); (姓)
►references: Guǎngyùn:054.11; Karlgren:AD807,GSR557b; Hànyǔ Dà Zìdiǎn:4.2589.6; Mathews:5569; Kāngxī Zìdiǎn:849.05; Bǐshùn Guīfàn:052.0.01; EDOC:1
►components: 禾厶
►Cantonese: si\
Shuōwén: (私) (厶)
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<comp char='禾' uni='79BE' variant='1' points='0,0 62,128' />
<comp char='厶' uni='53B6' points='70,6 128,122' />
</cdl>
<cdl char='禾' uni='79BE' variant='1' points='0,0 56,128' radical='K0'>
<stroke type='p' points='99,0 6,20' />
<stroke type='h' points='0,49 128,49' />
<stroke type='s' points='68,13 68,128' head='cut' />
<stroke type='p' points='68,49 0,104' head='corner' tail='long' />
<stroke type='d' points='68,57 120,90' />
<!-- variant based on [U+EF93](V=0) -->
</cdl>
<cdl char='厶' uni='53B6'>
<stroke type='pz' points='55,0 0,106 114,92' />
<stroke type='d' points='90,48 128,128' />
</cdl>
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