人妖

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Chinese

man; person; people
goblin; witch; devil
goblin; witch; devil; bewitching; enchanting; monster; phantom
 
trad. (人妖)
simp. #(人妖)
anagram 妖人

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Initial () (38) (34)
Final () (43) (92)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () III III
Fanqie
Baxter nyin 'jew
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ȵiɪn/ /ʔˠiᴇu/
Pan
Wuyun
/ȵin/ /ʔᵚiɛu/
Shao
Rongfen
/ȵʑjen/ /ʔiæu/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ȵin/ /ʔiaw/
Li
Rong
/ȵiĕn/ /ʔjɛu/
Wang
Li
/ȵʑĭĕn/ /ĭɛu/
Bernhard
Karlgren
/ȵʑi̯ĕn/ /ʔi̯ɛu/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
rén yāo
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
jan4 jiu1
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
rén
Middle
Chinese
‹ nyin ›
Old
Chinese
/*ni/
English (other) person

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 1/1
No. 10800 14627
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1 3
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*njin/ /*qrow/

Noun

人妖

  1. (Classical, derogatory) man-made disaster
    alt. forms: 人祅 (rényāo)
  2. (derogatory) bad person
  3. (Classical, derogatory) strange person
  4. (derogatory, offensive) tranny (a transsexual, transgender, transvestite, or intersex person, especially a trans woman); shemale
    泰國人妖泰国人妖  ―  Tàiguó rényāo  ―  kathoey
  5. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see (rén),‎ (yāo): human and monster

Synonyms