二毛

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Chinese

two hair
simp. and trad.
(二毛)
Literally: “with hair of two colours; salt and pepper”.

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/2
Initial () (38) (4)
Final () (15) (89)
Tone (調) Departing (H) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () III I
Fanqie
Baxter nyijH maw
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ȵiɪH/ /mɑu/
Pan
Wuyun
/ȵiH/ /mɑu/
Shao
Rongfen
/ȵʑjɪH/ /mɑu/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ȵiH/ /maw/
Li
Rong
/ȵiH/ /mɑu/
Wang
Li
/ȵʑiH/ /mɑu/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ȵʑiH/ /mɑu/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
èr máo
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
ji6 mou4
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
èr máo
Middle
Chinese
‹ nyijH › ‹ maw ›
Old
Chinese
/*ni-s/ /*C.mˁaw/
English two hair

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
Reading # 1/1 1/2 2/2
No. 2824 8780 8791
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2 1 1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*njis/ /*maːw/ /*maːws/

Adjective

二毛

  1. (metonymically, of a person, literary) middle-aged; approaching old age