犀 (Kangxi radical 93,牛+8, 12 strokes,cangjie input尸水竹手 (SEHQ) or尸卜卜手 (SYYQ),four-corner7725₁,composition⿸尸⿱氺牛)

• 遲

• Kangxi Dictionary:page 701, character 14
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 20045
• Dae Jaweon: page 1114, character 23
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1815, character 1
• Unihan data for U+7280

• Unihan data for U+2F924

Historical forms of the character犀
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled inHan)
Small seal script

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声,OC*sliːl): phonetic 尾(OC*mɯlʔ) + semantic 牛(“ox”).

Possibly fromProto-Sino-Tibetan*b-sej(“rhinoceros”).

犀

1. rhinoceros

   • 無木處乃犀、象屯聚養育之地。[Classical Chinese,trad.]
     无木处乃犀、象屯聚养育之地。[Classical Chinese,simp.]

     From:c. 1300,周達觀 / 周达观 (Zhou Daguan),《真臘風土記 / 真腊风土记》 (The Customs of Cambodia), adapted from translation by Peter Harris

     Wú mù chù nǎixī, xiàng túnjù yǎngyù zhī dì.[Pinyin]

     Where there are no trees,rhinoceroses and elephants come together and bring up their young.

2. sharp;hard;well-tempered (as metal)

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

• Go-on:さい(sai)
• Kan-on:せい(sei)
• Kun:かたい(katai,犀い)、するどい(surudoi,犀い)

• 犀利(さいり)(sairi)
• 木犀(もくせい)(mokusei)
• 霊犀(れいさい)(reisai)

 サイ on Japanese Wikipedia

FromMiddle Chinese犀(sej).

• (Tokyo)さい[sáꜜì] (Atamadaka – [1])^[1]
• IPA^(key): [sa̠i]

• • Homophones:妻,采,賽,骰子,豺,細,斎,債,際,載,差異,差違

犀(さい)or犀(サイ)• (sai) 

1. arhinoceros

FromMiddle Chinese犀 (MC sej). Recorded asMiddle Korean셔(sye) (Yale:sye) inHunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

KoreanWikisource has texts containing thehanja:

犀

犀 (eumhun무소서(muso seo))

1. hanja form^? of서(“rhinoceros”)

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary,전자사전／電子字典.[1]

犀:Hán Nôm readings:tê^{[1][2][3][4][5]},tây^[6]

1. arhinoceros

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