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Chinese
Etymology
According to Gongyang Zhuan, Duke Huan's 9th year:
京師者何？天子之居也。京者何？大也。師者何？眾也。天子之居，必以眾大之辭言之。 [MSC, trad.]
京师者何？天子之居也。京者何？大也。师者何？众也。天子之居，必以众大之辞言之。 [MSC, simp.]- Jīngshī zhě hé? Tiānzǐ zhī jū yě. Jīng zhě hé? Dà yě. Shī zhě hé? Zhòng yě. Tiānzǐ zhī jū, bì yǐ zhòngdà zhī cí yán zhī.
- What is jīngshī ("京師")? It's where the Son of Heaven dwells. What is jīng("京")? It means greatness ("大"). What is shī ("師")? It means the multitude ("眾"). Where the Son of Heaven dwells surely should be called by the diction for the multitude's greatness ("眾大").
Pronunciation
| Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
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| Character
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京
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師
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師
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| Reading #
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1/1
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1/2
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2/2
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Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
|
jīng
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shī
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shī
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Middle
Chinese
|
‹ kjæng ›
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‹ srij ›
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‹ srij ›
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Old
Chinese
|
/*raŋ/
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/*srij/
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/*srij/
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| English
|
hill; capital city
|
army
|
master
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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)
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| Character
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京
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師
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| Reading #
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1/1
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1/1
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| No.
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6828
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11433
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Phonetic
component
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京
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師
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Rime
group
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陽
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脂
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Rime
subdivision
|
0
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2
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Corresponding
MC rime
|
驚
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師
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Old
Chinese
|
/*kraŋ/
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/*sri/
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Noun
京師
- (literary) capital city; the capital
Synonyms
- 上國／上国 (shàngguó) (literary)
- 京城 (jīngchéng) (literary)
- 京華／京华 (jīnghuá) (literary)
- 京邑 (jīngyì) (literary)
- 京都 (jīngdū) (literary)
- 國家／国家 (guójiā) (Classical Chinese)
- 國都／国都 (guódū)
- 帝都 (dìdū) (imperial capital)
- 王京 (wángjīng) (literary, royal capital)
- 王都 (wángdū) (formal, royal capital)
- 皇州 (huángzhōu) (literary, imperial capital)
- 神州 (shénzhōu) (literary)
- 都城 (dūchéng)
- 都邑 (dūyì) (literary)
- 都門／都门 (dūmén) (literary)
- 鎬京／镐京 (hàojīng) (literary)
- 長安／长安 (cháng'ān) (literary, figurative)
- 首都 (shǒudū)
Descendants