自裁

Chinese

self to judge, to decide
simp. and trad.
(自裁)
alternative forms 自財自财

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/2
Initial () (15) (15)
Final () (15) (41)
Tone (調) Departing (H) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () III I
Fanqie
Baxter dzijH dzoj
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/d͡ziɪH/ /d͡zʌi/
Pan
Wuyun
/d͡ziH/ /d͡zəi/
Shao
Rongfen
/d͡zjɪH/ /d͡zɒi/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/d͡ziH/ /d͡zəj/
Li
Rong
/d͡ziH/ /d͡zᴀi/
Wang
Li
/d͡ziH/ /d͡zɒi/
Bernhard
Karlgren
/d͡zʱiH/ /d͡zʱɑ̆i/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
cái
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
zi6 coi4
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/2 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
cái
Middle
Chinese
‹ dzijH › ‹ dzoj ›
Old
Chinese
/*s.[b]i[t]-s/ /*[dz]ˁə/
English self (adv.) cut out clothes

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
Reading # 1/1 1/2
No. 17879 16498
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1 0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ɦljids/ /*zlɯː/

Verb

自裁

  1. (literary) to commit suicide; to kill oneself; to take one's own life
  2. (Classical) to make one's own decision

Synonyms

  • (to commit suicide):

Japanese

Kanji in this term

Grade: 2
さい
Grade: 6
on'yomi

Pronunciation

Noun

()(さい) • (jisai

  1. suicide

Verb

()(さい)する • (jisai surusuru (stem ()(さい) (jisai shi), past ()(さい)した (jisai shita))

  1. to commit suicide

Conjugation

Conjugation of "自裁する" (See Appendix:Japanese verbs)
Katsuyōkei ("stem forms")
Mizenkei ("imperfective") 自裁し じさいし jisai shi
Ren’yōkei ("continuative") 自裁し じさいし jisai shi
Shūshikei ("terminal") 自裁する じさいする jisai suru
Rentaikei ("attributive") 自裁する じさいする jisai suru
Kateikei ("hypothetical") 自裁すれ じさいすれ jisai sure
Meireikei ("imperative") 自裁せよ¹
自裁しろ²
じさいせよ¹
じさいしろ²
jisai seyo¹
jisai shiro²
Key constructions
Passive 自裁される じさいされる jisai sareru
Causative 自裁させる
自裁さす
じさいさせる
じさいさす
jisai saseru
jisai sasu
Potential 自裁できる じさいできる jisai dekiru
Volitional 自裁しよう じさいしよう jisai shiyō
Negative 自裁しない じさいしない jisai shinai
Negative continuative 自裁せず じさいせず jisai sezu
Formal 自裁します じさいします jisai shimasu
Perfective 自裁した じさいした jisai shita
Conjunctive 自裁して じさいして jisai shite
Hypothetical conditional 自裁すれば じさいすれば jisai sureba

¹ Written imperative
² Spoken imperative

Synonyms

References

  1. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. ^ Yamada, Tadao et al., editors (2020), 新明解国語辞典 [Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten] (in Japanese), Eighth edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN