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"roman": "chǒu",
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},
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"roman": "yín",
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{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"roman": "mǎo",
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"roman": "chén",
"word": "辰"
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"roman": "wǔ",
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"word": "申"
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"roman": "yǒu",
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"word": "戌"
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"roman": "hài",
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"roman": "Shàngsì",
"word": "上巳"
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"word": "巳時"
},
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"etymology_text": "巳 (OC s-ləʔ) displaced 子 (OC tsəʔ), the original sixth earthly branch which denoted the moon's \"coming forth\" stage (i.e. early waning-gibbous phase) \"due to phonological closeness (combined with the semantic opacity of the Branch terms at later eras)\" (Smith, 2011).\nAssociation with the snake was possibly arbitrary, analogous to how 辰, the fifth earthly branch, was arbitrarily associated with the dragon (Ferlus, 2013).",
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]
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],
"zh-pron": "sì"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
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],
"zh-pron": "si⁴"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"bopomofo"
],
"zh-pron": "ㄙˋ"
},
{
"tags": [
"Cantonese",
"Jyutping"
],
"zh-pron": "zi⁶"
},
{
"tags": [
"Hokkien",
"POJ"
],
"zh-pron": "sǐr"
},
{
"tags": [
"Hokkien",
"POJ"
],
"zh-pron": "sū"
},
{
"tags": [
"Hokkien",
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],
"zh-pron": "chī"
},
{
"tags": [
"Peng'im",
"Teochew"
],
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},
{
"zh-pron": "⁶zy"
},
{
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],
"zh-pron": "sì"
},
{
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],
"zh-pron": "sìh"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Wade-Giles"
],
"zh-pron": "ssŭ⁴"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Yale"
],
"zh-pron": "sz̀"
},
{
"tags": [
"Gwoyeu-Romatsyh",
"Mandarin"
],
"zh-pron": "syh"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Palladius"
],
"zh-pron": "сы"
},
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"Mandarin",
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],
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],
"zh-pron": "jih"
},
{
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],
"zh-pron": "dzi⁶"
},
{
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],
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},
{
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{
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],
"zh-pron": "sǐr"
},
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],
"zh-pron": "sū"
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],
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},
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"Hokkien",
"Kaohsiung",
"Taipei"
]
},
{
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"Hokkien",
"Xiamen"
]
},
{
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"Hokkien",
"Tai-lo"
],
"zh-pron": "tsī"
},
{
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"Hokkien",
"Phofsit-Daibuun"
],
"zh-pron": "ci"
},
{
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"Hokkien",
"Zhangzhou"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/t͡si³³/",
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"Hokkien",
"Kaohsiung",
"Taipei"
]
},
{
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"POJ",
"Teochew"
],
"zh-pron": "tsĭ"
},
{
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"tags": [
"Sinological-IPA",
"Teochew"
]
},
{
"tags": [
"Wu"
],
"zh-pron": "⁶zy"
},
{
"tags": [
"Wu"
],
"zh-pron": "zy^去"
},
{
"tags": [
"Wu"
],
"zh-pron": "³zr"
},
{
"tags": [
"Wu"
],
"zh-pron": "/zz̩²³/"
},
{
"tags": [
"Middle-Chinese"
],
"zh-pron": "ziX"
},
{
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"Baxter-Sagart",
"Old-Chinese"
],
"zh-pron": "/*s-[ɢ]əʔ/"
},
{
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"Old-Chinese",
"Zhengzhang"
],
"zh-pron": "/*ljɯʔ/"
},
{
"other": "/ sū /"
},
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},
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"ipa": "/t͡siː²²/"
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{
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},
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},
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"ipa": "/t͡si³³/"
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"word": "巳"
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"coordinate_terms": [
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"roman": "dìzhī",
"sense": "Chinese earthly branches",
"word": "地支"
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{
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},
{
"roman": "chǒu",
"word": "丑"
},
{
"roman": "yín",
"word": "寅"
},
{
"roman": "mǎo",
"word": "卯"
},
{
"roman": "chén",
"word": "辰"
},
{
"roman": "wǔ",
"word": "午"
},
{
"roman": "wèi",
"word": "未"
},
{
"roman": "shēn",
"word": "申"
},
{
"roman": "yǒu",
"word": "酉"
},
{
"word": "戌"
},
{
"roman": "hài",
"word": "亥"
}
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"word": "上巳"
},
{
"roman": "sìshí",
"word": "巳時"
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{
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{
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},
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},
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"zh-pron": "sǐr"
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"zh-pron": "chī"
},
{
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},
{
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},
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"zh-pron": "sìh"
},
{
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],
"zh-pron": "ssŭ⁴"
},
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],
"zh-pron": "sz̀"
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{
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"zh-pron": "syh"
},
{
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},
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"zh-pron": "dzi⁶"
},
{
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"Tai-lo"
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},
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"Quanzhou"
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"zh-pron": "su"
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},
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