儒士

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Chinese

scholar; Confucian scholar; warrior; knight
trad. (儒士)
simp. #(儒士)

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Initial () (38) (20)
Final () (24) (19)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Closed Open
Division () III III
Fanqie
Baxter nyu dzriX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ȵɨo/ /d͡ʒɨX/
Pan
Wuyun
/ȵio/ /ɖ͡ʐɨX/
Shao
Rongfen
/ȵʑio/ /d͡ʒieX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ȵuə̆/ /ɖ͡ʐɨX/
Li
Rong
/ȵio/ /d͡ʒiəX/
Wang
Li
/ȵʑĭu/ /d͡ʒĭəX/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ȵʑi̯u/ /ɖ͡ʐʱiX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
zhì
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
jyu4 zi6
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
shì
Middle
Chinese
‹ nyu › ‹ dzriX ›
Old
Chinese
/*no/ /*rəʔ/
English 侏儒 zhūrú "dwarf", scholar, Confucianism
(not in original list)
officer; gentleman

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. 13969 11511
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0 0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*njo/ /*zrɯʔ/

Noun

儒士

  1. (literary) Confucian scholar

Synonyms