如廁

Chinese

		to go to	rest-room; toilet; lavatory
trad. (如廁)		如	廁
simp. (如厕)		如	厕

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): rúcè

  (Zhuyin): ㄖㄨˊ ㄘㄜˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jyu⁴ ci³
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): jû-chhek / jî-chhek

  (Teochew, Peng'im): ru⁵ cê³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: rúcè
    • Zhuyin: ㄖㄨˊ ㄘㄜˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: rúcè
    • Wade–Giles: ju²-tsʻê⁴
    • Yale: rú-tsè
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: rutseh
    • Palladius: жуцэ (žucɛ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʐu³⁵ t͡sʰɤ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: jyu⁴ ci³
    • Yale: yùh chi
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jy⁴ tsi³
    • Guangdong Romanization: yu⁴ qi³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jyː²¹ t͡sʰiː³³/
    • Homophones:

      edit edit 魚刺 / 鱼刺 魚翅 / 鱼翅

• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: jû-chhek
    • Tâi-lô: jû-tshik
    • Phofsit Daibuun: juzheg
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /zu²³⁻³³ t͡sʰiɪk̚³²/
  • (Hokkien: variant in Taiwan)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: jî-chhek
    • Tâi-lô: jî-tshik
    • Phofsit Daibuun: jizheg
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /zi²³⁻³³ t͡sʰiɪk̚³²/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: ru⁵ cê³
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: jû tshè
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /d͡zu⁵⁵⁻¹¹ t͡sʰe²¹³/

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• Middle Chinese: nyo tsrhiH

Rime
Character	如	廁
Reading #	1/2	1/1
Initial (聲)	日 (38)	初 (19)
Final (韻)	魚 (22)	之 (19)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	人諸切	初吏切
Baxter	nyo	tsrhiH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ȵɨʌ/	/t͡ʃʰɨH/
Pan Wuyun	/ȵiɔ/	/ʈ͡ʂʰɨH/
Shao Rongfen	/ȵʑiɔ/	/t͡ʃʰieH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ȵɨə̆/	/ʈ͡ʂʰɨH/
Li Rong	/ȵiɔ/	/t͡ʃʰiəH/
Wang Li	/ȵʑĭo/	/t͡ʃʰĭəH/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ȵʑi̯wo/	/ʈ͡ʂʰiH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	rú	chì
Expected Cantonese Reflex	jyu4	ci3

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*na  [tsʰ]rək-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*nja  sʰrɯɡs/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	如	廁
Reading #	1/2	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	rú	cè
Middle Chinese	‹ nyo ›	‹ tsrhiH ›
Old Chinese	/*na/	/*[tsʰ]rək-s/
English	go to	latrine
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	如	廁
Reading #	1/2	1/2
No.	9623	16594
Phonetic component	女	則
Rime group	魚	代
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	如	廁
Old Chinese	/*nja/	/*sʰrɯɡs/

Verb

如廁

1. (formal) to use the toilet; to go to the toilet

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 上廁所 (“to go to the toilet”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		如廁, 上廁所, 出恭
Northeastern Mandarin	Taiwan	上廁所
	Harbin	上外頭
	Singapore	上廁所
Cantonese	Guangzhou	去廁所, 去洗手間
	Hong Kong	去廁所, 去洗手間, 去toilet
	Kaiping (Chikan)	喊悶
	Kuala Lumpur (Guangfu)	去廁所, 去洗手間, 去toilet, 去屎坑 rare, 出恭 rare
	Singapore (Guangfu)	去廁所
Hakka	Meixian	去廁所
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	去便所
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	去便所
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	去便所
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	去便所
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	去便所
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	去便所
Southern Min	Singapore (Hokkien)	去染蠻
Wu	Shanghai	去世界盃