凝脂

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Chinese

congeal; concentrate attention fat
trad. (凝脂)
simp. #(凝脂)

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/2 1/1
Initial () (31) (23)
Final () (133) (15)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () III III
Fanqie
Baxter nging tsyij
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ŋɨŋ/ /t͡ɕiɪ/
Pan
Wuyun
/ŋɨŋ/ /t͡ɕi/
Shao
Rongfen
/ŋieŋ/ /t͡ɕjɪ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ŋiŋ/ /ci/
Li
Rong
/ŋiəŋ/ /t͡ɕi/
Wang
Li
/ŋĭəŋ/ /t͡ɕi/
Bernhard
Karlgren
/ŋi̯əŋ/ /t͡ɕi/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
yíng zhī
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
jing4 zi1
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
níng zhī
Middle
Chinese
‹ nging › ‹ tsyij ›
Old
Chinese
/*(r)əŋ/ (< uvular?) /*kij/
English freeze, coagulate fat, grease

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 # 1/2 1/1
No. 14902 17322
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0 2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ŋrɯŋ/ /*kji/

Noun

凝脂

  1. (literary) congealed fat
  2. (literary, figurative) white and smooth skin or implement surface

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