今旦

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Chinese

today; modern; present
today; modern; present; current; this; now
 
dawn; morning; day-break
dawn; morning; day-break; day
 
trad. (今旦)
simp. #(今旦)

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Initial () (28) (5)
Final () (140) (61)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () III I
Fanqie
Baxter kim tanH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/kˠiɪm/ /tɑnH/
Pan
Wuyun
/kᵚim/ /tɑnH/
Shao
Rongfen
/kiem/ /tɑnH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/kjim/ /tanH/
Li
Rong
/kjəm/ /tɑnH/
Wang
Li
/kĭĕm/ /tɑnH/
Bernhard
Karlgren
/ki̯əm/ /tɑnH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
jīn dàn
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
gam1 daan3
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
jīn dàn
Middle
Chinese
‹ kim › ‹ tanH ›
Old
Chinese
/*rm/ /*tˁan-s/
English now dawn

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. 6599 2051
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1 1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*krɯm/ /*taːns/
Notes

Noun

今旦

  1. (literary, literally) this morning
  2. (Eastern Min, Datian Min, Hainanese, Leizhou Min, Puxian Min) today
  3. (literary Hokkien) now
    • 2015, “三千两金”, in traditional (lyrics), 全国文化信息资源共享工程《泉州南音》资源数据库 (Quanzhou nanyin), performed by 王一鸣:
      今旦流落蘇州
      今旦流落苏州
      kin-tòaⁿ lâu-lo̍h chí So͘-chiu
      Now wandering about in this Suzhou

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References

  • 莆田市政协文化文史和学习委员会 , editor (2021), “今旦”, in 莆仙方言大词典 (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 220.