周公

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Chinese

encircle; circuit; complete
encircle; circuit; complete; lap; week; cycle; all; every; attentive; thoughtful
 
just; honourable; public
just; honourable; public; common; fair; duke; mister
 
trad. (周公)
simp. #(周公)
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Etymology

"dream"
Based on the Analects:
不復夢見周公
不复梦见周公
From: The Analects of Confucius, c. 475 – 221 BCE, translated based on James Legge's version
Jiǔ yǐ wú bùfù mèngjiàn Zhōugōng.
For a long time, I have not dreamed, as I was wont to do, that I saw the duke of Zhou.

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Initial () (23) (28)
Final () (136) (1)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () III I
Fanqie
Baxter tsyuw kuwng
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/t͡ɕɨu/ /kuŋ/
Pan
Wuyun
/t͡ɕiu/ /kuŋ/
Shao
Rongfen
/t͡ɕiəu/ /kuŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/cuw/ /kəwŋ/
Li
Rong
/t͡ɕiu/ /kuŋ/
Wang
Li
/t͡ɕĭəu/ /kuŋ/
Bernhard
Karlgren
/t͡ɕi̯ə̯u/ /kuŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
zhōu gōng
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
zau1 gung1
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
zhōu zhōu gōng gōng
Middle
Chinese
‹ tsyuw › ‹ tsyuw › ‹ kuwng › ‹ kuwng ›
Old
Chinese
/*tiw/ /*tiw/ /*C.qˁoŋ/ /*C.qˁoŋ/
English Zhōu (dynasty and place) cycle; all around impartial, just; public father; prince

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 1/1
No. 17531 4092
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2 0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*tjɯw/ /*kloːŋ/
Notes

Proper noun

周公

  1. Duke of Zhou

Derived terms

Noun

周公

  1. (literary, figurative) dream