動搖

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See also: 動揺 and 动摇

Chinese

 
to move; to change; to use
to move; to change; to use; to act
shake; to rock
trad. (動搖)
simp. (动摇)
anagram 搖動摇动

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Initial () (7) (36)
Final () (1) (91)
Tone (調) Rising (X) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () I III
Fanqie
Baxter duwngX yew
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/duŋX/ /jiᴇu/
Pan
Wuyun
/duŋX/ /jiɛu/
Shao
Rongfen
/duŋX/ /jæu/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/dəwŋX/ /jiaw/
Li
Rong
/duŋX/ /iɛu/
Wang
Li
/duŋX/ /jĭɛu/
Bernard
Karlgren
/dʱuŋX/ /i̯ɛu/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
dòng yáo
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
dung6 jiu4
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
dòng yáo
Middle
Chinese
‹ duwngX › ‹ yew ›
Old
Chinese
/*tˁoŋʔ/ /*law/
English move shake

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 1/2 2/2
No. 17449 14703 14704
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0 2 3
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*doːŋʔ/ /*lews/ /*lew/

Verb

動搖

  1. (transitive) to swing; to rock; to shake
  2. (ergative) to destabilise; to waver; to rattle; to shake; to undermine

Synonyms

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (動搖):