宍

See also: 肉

宍 U+5B8D, 宍 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5B8D ← 完 [U+5B8C] CJK Unified Ideographs 宎 → [U+5B8E]

Translingual

Han character

宍 (Kangxi radical 40, 宀+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 十卜金 (JYC), composition ⿱宀六)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 282, character 18
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7084
• Dae Jaweon: page 556, character 5
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 917, character 7
• Unihan data for U+5B8D

Chinese

For pronunciation and definitions of 宍 – see 肉 (“meat; flesh; pork; etc.”). (This character is a variant form of 肉).

Japanese

Kanji

宍

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: にく (niku)
• Kan-on: じく (jiku)
• Kun: しし (shishi, 宍)

Definitions

For pronunciation and definitions of 宍 – see the following entry.

【肉しし】2 [noun] [from 712–1682] (archaic, possibly obsolete or dialect, Aomori, Fukushima, Nara, Kagoshima) meat (of boars, pigs, deer, etc.) [noun] [from 712–1682] (archaic, possibly obsolete) human flesh [noun] (dialect, Iwate, Niigata, Shizuoka, Toyama) muscle [noun] (dialect, Toyama) excess fat, flab [noun] (dialect, Kochi) the human body

(This term, 宍, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)