誠使

Chinese

		honest; sincere; true	to make; to cause; to enable to make; to cause; to enable; to use; to employ; messenger
simp. and trad. (誠使)		誠	使

Mandarin
(Standard)
(Pinyin): chéng shǐ

(Zhuyin): ㄔㄥˊ ㄕˇ

(Xi'an, Guanzhong Pinyin): chéng sì
Cantonese
(Guangzhou–Hong Kong, Jyutping): sing⁴ si² / sing⁴ sai²

(Taishan, Wiktionary): sen³ soi²

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: chéng shǐ
  - Zhuyin: ㄔㄥˊ ㄕˇ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: chéng shǐh
  - Wade–Giles: chʻêng² shih³
  - Yale: chéng shř
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: cherng shyy
  - Palladius: чэн ши (čɛn ši)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰɤŋ³⁵ ʂʐ̩²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
- (Xi'an)
  - Guanzhong Pinyin: chéng sì
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰəŋ²⁴ sz̩⁵³/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: sing⁴ si² / sing⁴ sai²
  - Yale: sìhng sí / sìhng sái
  - Cantonese Pinyin: sing⁴ si² / sing⁴ sai²
  - Guangdong Romanization: xing⁴ xi² / xing⁴ sei²
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɪŋ²¹ siː³⁵/, /sɪŋ²¹ sɐi̯³⁵/

Note: sai2 - vernacular;si2 - literary.

- (Taishanese, Taicheng)
  - Wiktionary: sen³ soi²
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /sen²² sᵘɔi⁵⁵/

Middle Chinese: dzyeng sriX|sriH

Rime
Character	誠	使	使
Reading #	1/1	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	常 (25)	生 (21)	生 (21)
Final (韻)	清 (121)	之 (19)	之 (19)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Rising (X)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	III	III
Fanqie	是征切	踈士切	踈吏切
Baxter	dzyeng	sriX	sriH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/d͡ʑiᴇŋ/	/ʃɨ^X/	/ʃɨ^H/
Pan Wuyun	/d͡ʑiɛŋ/	/ʃɨ^X/	/ʃɨ^H/
Shao Rongfen	/d͡ʑiæŋ/	/ʃie^X/	/ʃie^H/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/d͡ʑiajŋ/	/ʂɨ^X/	/ʂɨ^H/
Li Rong	/ʑiɛŋ/	/ʃiə^X/	/ʃiə^H/
Wang Li	/ʑĭɛŋ/	/ʃĭə^X/	/ʃĭə^H/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ʑi̯ɛŋ/	/ʂi^X/	/ʂi^H/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	chéng	shǐ	shì
Expected Cantonese Reflex	sing⁴	si²	si³

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*[d]eŋ s-rəʔ|s-rəʔ-s/

(Zhengzhang): /*djeŋ srɯʔ|srɯs/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	誠	使	使
Reading #	1/1	1/2	2/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	chéng	shǐ	shǐ
Middle Chinese	‹ dzyeng ›	‹ sri^X ›	‹ sri^H ›
Old Chinese	/*[d]eŋ/	/*s-rəʔ/	/*s-rəʔ-s/
English	sincere	send; cause	envoy
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	誠	使	使
Reading #	1/1	1/2	2/2
No.	1419	11488	11491
Phonetic component	成	史	史
Rime group	耕	之	之
Rime subdivision	0	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	成	史	𩢲
Old Chinese	/*djeŋ/	/*srɯʔ/	/*srɯs/