儒者

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Chinese

scholar; Confucian ‑ist, ‑er (person); person (who does something)
trad. (儒者)
simp. #(儒者)

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Initial () (38) (23)
Final () (24) (100)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Closed Open
Division () III III
Fanqie
Baxter nyu tsyaeX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ȵɨo/ /t͡ɕiaX/
Pan
Wuyun
/ȵio/ /t͡ɕiaX/
Shao
Rongfen
/ȵʑio/ /t͡ɕiaX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ȵuə̆/ /ciaX/
Li
Rong
/ȵio/ /t͡ɕiaX/
Wang
Li
/ȵʑĭu/ /t͡ɕĭaX/
Bernhard
Karlgren
/ȵʑi̯u/ /t͡ɕi̯aX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
zhě
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
jyu4 ze2
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
zhě
Middle
Chinese
‹ nyu › ‹ tsyæX ›
Old
Chinese
/*no/ /*tAʔ/
English 侏儒 zhūrú "dwarf", scholar, Confucianism
(not in original list)
(nominalizing particle)

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 16960
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0 0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*njo/ /*tjaːʔ/
Notes

Noun

儒者

  1. Confucian scholar
  2. (by extension) any scholar or intellectual