厚祿

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Chinese

generous; thick (for flat things) good fortune; official salary
trad. (厚祿) 祿
simp. (厚禄)

Pronunciation



Rime
Character 祿
Reading # 1/2 2/2 1/1
Initial () (33) (33) (37)
Final () (137) (137) (3)
Tone (調) Rising (X) Departing (H) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open Open
Division () I I I
Fanqie
Baxter huwX huwH luwk
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ɦəuX/ /ɦəuH/ /luk̚/
Pan
Wuyun
/ɦəuX/ /ɦəuH/ /luk̚/
Shao
Rongfen
/ɣəuX/ /ɣəuH/ /luk̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ɦəwX/ /ɦəwH/ /ləwk̚/
Li
Rong
/ɣuX/ /ɣuH/ /luk̚/
Wang
Li
/ɣəuX/ /ɣəuH/ /luk̚/
Bernhard
Karlgren
/ɣə̯uX/ /ɣə̯uH/ /luk̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
hòu hòu
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
hau6 hau6 luk6
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 祿
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
hòu
Middle
Chinese
‹ huwX › ‹ luwk ›
Old
Chinese
/*Cə.ˁ(r)oʔ/ /*ˁok/
English thick blessing

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 祿
Reading # 1/2 2/2 1/1
No. 5176 5177 8541
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0 0 0
Corresponding
MC rime
𠋫
Old
Chinese
/*ɡoːʔ/ /*ɡoːs/ /*roːɡ/

Noun

厚祿

  1. (literary) huge salary of an official

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