其次

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Chinese

 
his; her; its
his; her; its; theirs; that; such; it (refers to sth preceding it)
 
number of times; order; sequence
number of times; order; sequence; next; second(ary); (measure word)
trad. (其次)
simp. #(其次)

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/2 1/1
Initial () (30) (14)
Final () (19) (15)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () III III
Fanqie
Baxter gi tshijH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ɡɨ/ /t͡sʰiɪH/
Pan
Wuyun
/ɡɨ/ /t͡sʰiH/
Shao
Rongfen
/ɡie/ /t͡sʰjɪH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/gɨ/ /t͡sʰiH/
Li
Rong
/ɡiə/ /t͡sʰiH/
Wang
Li
/ɡĭə/ /t͡sʰiH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/gi/ /t͡sʰiH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
kei4 ci3
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 2/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
Middle
Chinese
‹ gi › ‹ tshijH ›
Old
Chinese
/*ɡə/ /*i-s/
English (3p possessive) put in order; second

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 # 2/2 1/1
No. 9947 1794
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0 2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ɡɯ/ /*sn̥ʰis/
Notes

Pronoun

其次

  1. next or second in the sequence
  2. secondary (thing); less important thing

Conjunction

其次

  1. secondly; in the next place; moreover

Synonyms