斯

斯 (Kangxi radical 69, 斤+8, 12 strokes, cangjie input 廿金竹一中 (TCHML), four-corner 4282₁, composition ⿰其斤)

• 㒋, 凘, 厮, 嘶, 𡡒, 廝, 撕, 澌, 燍, 𤩐, 簛, 䔮, 蟖, 蟴, 鐁(𰾴), 䲉(𱈒)

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 480, character 4
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13563
• Dae Jaweon: page 839, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2025, character 6
• Unihan data for U+65AF

Historical forms of the character 斯
Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

A sieve next to an axe; its original meaning was "to divide/break with an axe" and, according to Xu Shen, it was synonym of 析. The original meaning is still preserved in the character 撕.

Cognate with 此 (OC *sʰeʔ, “this”) (Schuessler, 2007).

STEDT compares 此 (OC *sʰeʔ) and 斯 (OC *se) to Proto-Tani *si (“this”).

斯

1. (Classical) this; these; here

   生於斯，長於斯 [MSC, trad.]
   生于斯，长于斯 [MSC, simp.]

   shēng yú sī, zhǎng yú sī [Pinyin]

   to have been born and raised here

   • 亡之，命矣夫！斯人也而有斯疾也！斯人也而有斯疾也！ [Classical Chinese, trad. and simp.]

     From: The Analects of Confucius, c. 475 – 221 BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

     Wáng zhī, mìng yǐ fū! Sī rén yě ér yǒu sī jí yě! Sī rén yě ér yǒu sī jí yě! [Pinyin]

     It is killing him. It is the appointment of Heaven, alas! That such a man should have such a sickness! That such a man should have such a sickness!

2. (Classical) then; thus
3. ^† emphatic particle (clarification of this definition is needed)
4. a surname
5. Used in transcription.

   斯洛維尼亞／斯洛维尼亚  ―  Sīluòwéiníyà  ―  Slovenia

   巴基斯坦  ―  Bājīsītǎn  ―  Pakistan

   拉各斯  ―  Lāgèsī  ―  Lagos

   莫斯科  ―  Mòsīkē  ―  Moscow

   堪薩斯／堪萨斯  ―  Kānsàsī  ―  Kansas

   穆斯林  ―  Mùsīlín  ―  Muslim

   法西斯  ―  fǎxīsī  ―  fascist

   斯伯遜／斯伯逊  ―  Sībóxùn  ―  Sebastian

   斯拉夫  ―  Sīlāfū  ―  Slav

   迪斯科  ―  dísīkē  ―  disco

   1. (Mainland China) Short for 斯大林 (Sīdàlín, “Stalin”).

• In modern Chinese, this character is almost entirely used for phonetic translations. The character mainly represents the phoneme /s/ or /θ/ in word-final and preconsonantal positions.

斯

1. ^† Original form of 撕 (sī, “to lop off”).

• “斯”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[2], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

1. this, here
2. thus
3. like this, in this manner
4. used phonetically^[1]

• Go-on: し (shi)
• Kan-on: し (shi)
• Tō-on: す (su)
• Kun: か (ka, 斯)、こう (kou, 斯う)、この (kono, 斯)、これ (kore, 斯)、かく (kaku, 斯く)、ここに (kokoni, 斯)

斯 • (sa) (hangeul 사, revised sa, McCune–Reischauer sa, Yale sa)

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斯: Hán Việt readings: tư^{[1][2][3][4][5]}
斯: Nôm readings: tư^[1][2]

1. chữ Hán form of Tư (“a surname”).
2. chữ Hán form of tư (“this (compounds), also a syllable used for the Sino-Vietnamese readings of foreign names (mainly the /s/ phoneme) transcripted into Chinese characters”).

• 彼嗇斯豐 (bỉ sắc tư phong)