三皇五帝

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Chinese

the Three Sovereigns the Five Emperors
simp. and trad.
(三皇五帝) 		三皇 五帝
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Pronunciation

Rime
Character 三 皇 五 帝
Reading # 1/2 1/1 1/1 1/1
Initial (聲) 心 (16) 匣 (33) 疑 (31) 端 (5)
Final (韻) 談 (143) 唐 (102) 模 (23) 齊 (39)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Level (Ø) Rising (X) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open Closed Open Open
Division (等) I I I IV
Fanqie 蘇甘切 胡光切 疑古切 都計切
Baxter sam hwang nguX tejH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/sɑm/ /ɦwɑŋ/ /ŋuoX/ /teiH/
Pan
Wuyun 		/sɑm/ /ɦʷɑŋ/ /ŋuoX/ /teiH/
Shao
Rongfen 		/sɑm/ /ɣuɑŋ/ /ŋoX/ /tɛiH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/sam/ /ɦwaŋ/ /ŋɔX/ /tɛjH/
Li
Rong 		/sɑm/ /ɣuɑŋ/ /ŋoX/ /teiH/
Wang
Li 		/sɑm/ /ɣuɑŋ/ /ŋuX/ /tieiH/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/sɑm/ /ɣwɑŋ/ /ŋuoX/ /tieiH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		sān huáng wǔ dì
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		saam1 wong4 ng5 dai3
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 三 皇 皇 五 帝
Reading # 1/2 1/2 2/2 1/1 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		sān huáng huáng wǔ dì
Middle
Chinese 		‹ sam › ‹ hwang › ‹ hwang › ‹ nguX › ‹ tejH ›
Old
Chinese 		/*s.rum/ (*s.r- > s-; infl. by 四 *s-?) /*ʷˁaŋ/ /*ʷˁaŋ/ /*C.ŋˁaʔ/ /*tˁek-s/
English three yellow and white spotted sovereign five God

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * 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 三 皇 五 帝
Reading # 1/2 1/1 1/1 1/1
No. 10963 12696 13147 2313
Phonetic
component 		三 王 五 帝
Rime
group 		侵 陽 魚 賜
Rime
subdivision 		3 0 0 0
Corresponding
MC rime 		三 黃 五 帝
Old
Chinese 		/*suːm/ /*ɡʷaːŋ/ /*ŋaːʔ/ /*teːɡs/
Notes 禮王制鄭注冕屬，
金文象羽冠，王聲；或雲象日射輝則爲暀晃初文 		甲金文象根啇非朿聲

Proper noun

三皇五帝

  1. (Chinese mythology) the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors

See also

Japanese

Kanji in this term
三 皇 五 帝
さん
Grade: 1 		こう
Grade: 6 		ご
Grade: 1 		てい
Grade: S
kan'on
 三皇五帝 on Japanese Wikipedia

Etymology

From Chinese 三皇五帝 (Sānhuáng Wǔdì).

Pronunciation

Proper noun

三(さん)皇(こう)五(ご)帝(てい) • (Sankō Gotei) ←さんくわうごてい (Sankwaugotei)?

  1. the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors

See also

Korean

Hanja in this term
三皇五帝

Proper noun

三皇五帝 • (Samhwang'oje) (hangeul 삼황오제)

  1. hanja form? of 삼황오제 (“the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors”)

Vietnamese

chữ Hán Nôm in this term
三皇五帝

Proper noun

三皇五帝

  1. chữ Hán form of Tam Hoàng Ngũ Đế (“the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors”).
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