A Warrior's Signature Weapon | 士 | A Very Short History [808CJK

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Booklet of the 808 Commonly Used Chinese Characters in China, Japan and the ROK - www.tcs-asia.o...
[CN] Trilateral Common Vocabulary Dictionary (3rd Edition) - www.tcs-asia.o...
Official Readings of Jōyō Kanji - nihongo.monash....
Unihan Database on 士 - www.unicode.or...
Outlier Dictionary of Chinese Characters on 士.
季旭昇，2004《說文新證》，台北：藝文印書館印行，2014年9月第二版。 (p. 59)
[CN] Multi-function Chinese Character Database on 士 - humanum.arts.c...
[CN] 三國字：中日韓常用漢字詳解 - ISBN: 978-7-5540-1038-9
[CN] 808中日韓通用漢字字理讀本 - ISBN: 978-7-5699-0877-0
[CN] ZDIC on 士 - www.zdic.net/h...
[CN] ZDIC on Middle Chinese pronunciation of 士 (video used 王力's [Wang Li's] reconstruction) - www.zdic.net/z...
Wiktionary on 士 - en.wiktionary....
[CN] Wiktionary on 士 - zh.wiktionary....
[JP] Wiktionary on 士 - ja.wiktionary....
[KR] Wiktionary on 士 - ko.wiktionary....
[KR] Naver Hanja Dictionary on 士 - hanja.dict.nav...
Naver English-Korean Dictionary on 선비 - en.dict.naver....
[CN] Etymology Search - qiyuan.chaziwan..., 漢字演變五百例 - ISBN: 978-7-5619-0749-8

[@deacudaniel1635]

First. The character 王 is also believed to be originated from a drawing of an axe.Because the axe was a symbol of political power in prehistoric and ancient China, not only of the warriors, so it's easy to understand why 士 also means "scholar" because during most of the Chinese dynasties, scholars had more authority than warriors.

[@Fummy007]

I heard it was also probably influenced by the Cong, a ceremonial jade vessel used by kings that looked just like 王 from one side.

[@deacudaniel1635]

@@Fummy007 That it's possible too, since the character 玉(jade) is just 王 with one more tiny stroke added.

[@ItsJayYork]

did you quit, mate?

[@2000_bms]

Cool that you have the Cantonese pronunciations.

[@6Uncles]

sounds off to me though, like a low rising tone (5), where it should be a low-level tone

[@NoCareBearsGiven]

In teochew 士 is se6, and to say scholar you can say 學者(Hak jia) or 秀才(siu jai).