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Chinese
Pronunciation
| Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
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| Character
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八
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荒
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| Reading #
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1/1
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1/1
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Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
|
bā
|
huāng
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Middle
Chinese
|
‹ pɛt ›
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‹ xwang ›
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Old
Chinese
|
/*pˁret/
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/*m̥ˁaŋ/
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| English
|
eight
|
wasteland; uncultivated land
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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.
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| Zhengzhang system (2003)
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| Character
|
八
|
荒
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| Reading #
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1/1
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1/2
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| No.
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89
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12649
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Phonetic
component
|
八
|
亡
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Rime
group
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月
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陽
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Rime
subdivision
|
2
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0
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Corresponding
MC rime
|
八
|
荒
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Old
Chinese
|
/*preːd/
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/*hmaːŋ/
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Noun
八荒
- places that are remote and faraway
- (figurative) the world; everything under the sky; all under heaven
Japanese
Etymology
/hakkwau/ > /hakkwoː/ > /hakkoː/. Literally the eight corners of the land. The eight corners are in the north, south, east, west, northeast, northwest, southeast, southwest and is a reference to the land as a whole.
Pronunciation
Noun
八荒 • (hakkō) ←はっくゎう (fakkwau)?
- the eight corners of the earth
- the world as a whole
See also